The Early Worm Gets the Bird (1940)

Directed by

Tex Avery

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A worm tries to outwit a hungry bird that wants to eat him for breakfast. The cartoon follows their back-and-forth chase full of tricks and comic mishaps.

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What happens

The Early Worm Gets the Bird is a 1940 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery. The short was released on January 6, 1940. The name is a play on the adage "The early bird gets the worm." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.