A Cat, a Mouse and a Bell (1935)

Directed by

Arthur Davis

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cat and a mouse chase each other around a house. The mouse tries to put a bell on the cat to warn of its approach.

whimsicalplayfullight-heartedbouncycolorfulsimpleold-fashionedfast-paced

What happens

Color Rhapsody is a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz's studio Screen Gems for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies and Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies. Because of Disney's exclusive rights to the full three strip Technicolor process, Color Rhapsody films were produced in the older two-tone Technicolor process until 1935, when Disney's exclusive contract expired. The Color Rhapsody series is most notable for introducing the characters of The Fox and the Crow in the 1941 short The Fox and the Grapes. Two Color Rhapsody shorts, Holiday Land (1934) and The Little Match Girl (1937), were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). Columbia begin reissuing cartoons as Columbia Favorites from 1947 until the late 1960s, and extended past Screen Gems, with cartoons from UPA (which succeeded the original Screen Gems) and Hanna-Barbera's Loopy de Loop later on. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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