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The Counterfeit Cat is a 1949 animated short film directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for MGM Cartoons. [1] Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the short was released in the US on December 24, 1949. The short stars Blackie the Cat, Spike, a yellow canary and a woman.
King-Size Canary is an animated cartoon short that debuted in movie theaters in 1947. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Tex Avery. [2] The canary in this short was a primary inspiration for the design of Maurice, a character from The Wacky World of Tex Avery.
Sh-h-h-h-h-h is a 1955 American cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Walter Lantz. It was the fourth cartoon directed by Tex Avery at Walter Lantz Productions. [2] This cartoon features the 1922 Okeh Laughing Record for much of its soundtrack. The short would be Avery's final Lantz cartoon, and last theatrical cartoon overall, as he ...
Ventriloquist Cat was later remade in CinemaScope as Cat's Meow, which was released on January 25, 1957. [4] [5] It was one of two Avery MGM cartoons to have been reworked in the widescreen format (the other was the 1949 Droopy cartoon Wags to Riches, which was redone as Millionaire Droopy); as Avery himself was long gone from MGM at the time of these remakes, the new versions were worked on ...
Cellbound was the final released MGM cartoon to be directed by Avery. In the same year that the cartoon was released, he began his career in television at Cascade Studios, which Lah introduced him to, working on commercials for Raid and Kool-Aid (advertisements for the latter featured Bugs Bunny, who Cascade was unaware Avery had created).
The cartoon was banned in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1939, because censors "felt the film was just an excuse to show criminal activity." [3]Animation historian Greg Ford calls Thugs with Dirty Mugs "an Avery treatise on movie gangsterdom that insightfully satirizes the live-action crime thrillers being made at the Warner Bros. studios during this period...