Underplayed Gems

The Midnight Snack (1941)

The Midnight Snack poster
Directed by
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Genre
comedy film, family film
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

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 cat tries to catch a mouse that steals food from the kitchen. The mouse outsmarts the cat at every turn.

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What happens

The Midnight Snack is a Tom and Jerry cartoon released on July 19, 1941. It is the second of the Tom and Jerry films, returning to the basic premise of the previous film, Puss Gets the Boot, following that cartoon's Academy Awards nomination. This cartoon features the second appearance of Tom and Jerry, and is the first in which the characters are given their familiar names; in the first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot has the cat named Jasper, and the unnamed mouse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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