Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943)

Directed by

Bob Clampett

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cartoon cat who loves jazz music gets into a series of wild adventures. The short features a fantasy sequence inspired by an earlier Looney Tunes cartoon.

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What happens

Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Bob Clampett. A follow-up to Clampett's successful Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, released earlier in 1943, Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses upon contemporary themes of African-American culture, jazz music, and World War II, and features a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller as an anthropomorphic cat. The short's centerpiece is a fantasy sequence derived from Clampett's black and white Looney Tunes short Porky in Wackyland (1938). Like Coal Black, Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses heavily on stereotypical gags, character designs, and situations involving African-Americans. As such, the film and other Warner Bros. cartoons with similar themes have been withheld from television distribution since 1968, and are collectively known as the Censored Eleven. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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