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Tweetie Pie
Studio: Warner Bros. Release Date : May 3, 1947 Series: Merrie Melodies

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Synopsis

Sylvester tries to catch Tweety, even when Tweety is taken inside a warm house and given a home.

Characters

Tweety
(Voice: Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc)
Sylvester
(Voice: Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc)

Credits

Note: "Unverified" credits may not be correct and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Director

Friz Freleng

Animator

Germain Adolph "Gerry" Chiniquy
Manuel "Manny" Perez
Ken Champin
Virgil Walter Ross

Story

Tedd "Ted" Pierce
Michael "Mike" Maltese

Music

Carl W. Stalling

Backgrounds

Terry Lind

Layout

Hawley Pratt

Producer

Edward "Eddie" Selzer (unverified)

Film Editor

Treg Brown (unverified)

Music Sources

Traditional : "Rock-a-Bye Baby "
Wayne, Mabel and Al Lewis : "Why Don't You Fall in Love with Me? "

Awards

Won the 1947 Academy Award (Oscar): Best Short Subject

Broadcasters

Cartoon Network
Tooncast
Turner Classic Movies

Distributor(s)

Warner Bros.

Clips Used In:

Warner Bros. Sing Along: Looney Tunes

Included in:

The Great Cartoon Controversy
The Evolution of Tweety

Milestones

  • This was the first Warner Bros. cartoon to win an Academy Award, as well as the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester.

Trivia

  • Originally, Bob Clampett was working on his own Tweety and Sylvester pairing short. The storyboard produced (which would’ve been titled "The Fat Rat and the Stupid Cat") depicted Tweety living in a bird cage, which possibly marked his transition from a wild baby bird to a domestic canary. By the time Bob Clampett left Warner Bros. in 1945 however, the project ended up sitting and never entered full production. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. producer Eddie Selzer wanted the woodpecker from "Peck Up Your Troubles" to be paired again with Sylvester in a follow-up director Friz Freleng was already producing, but Freleng wanted to replace the woodpecker and pair Sylvester with Tweety instead. Selzer objected and Freleng threatened to quit but later that evening, Eddie apologized to Friz and later allowed Tweety to be used for his short. Production would be being around the time of the release of “A Gruesome Twosome” in June 1945 (the final Tweety short directed by Bob Clampett and released a month after Clampett Warner Bros.).
  • Friz Freleng gave Tweety yellow feathers and became a canary, resulting in his iconic design we now know today and while not brutal as the Bob Clampett-directed cartoons, the cloying presence of a tiny, naive child setting up predators for their own suffering (as Clampett intended) remained intact.

Television

Toon In With Me

VHS

United States

The Best of Bugs Bunny & Friends
Tweety & Sylvester
Little Tweety and Little Inki Cartoon Festival featuring "I Taw a Putty Tat"
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes
Friz Freleng
Volume 15: A Battle of Wits

BetaMax

United States

Little Tweety and Little Inki Cartoon Festival featuring "I Taw a Putty Tat"

Laserdisc (CLV)

United States

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes

DVD

United States

Looney Tunes Golden Collection - Volume 2
Tweety and Sylvester - Feline Fwenzy
15 Winners
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection - Volume 2
LooneyTunes Platinum Collection - Volume 1
Tweetie Pie and Friends
15 Winners, 26 Nominees
Looney Tunes Super Stars Vol. 2
Academy Award-Winning Classic Cartoons
Looney Tunes Complete Platinum Collection
Looney Tunes Golden Collection (Volumes 1-6)

France

Titi et Grosminet Retrospective: 1941-2003

Italy

Il Tuo Simpatico Amico Tweety

Spain

Tweety Kids Collection

BluRay Disc

United States

Looney Tunes Showcase - Volume 1 (Blu-Ray)
LooneyTunes Platinum Collection - Volume 1 (Blu-Ray)

Technical Specifications

Running Time: 7:23
Production No.: 1026
MPAA No.: 11104
Animation Type: Standard (Hand-drawn-Cel) Animation
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Cinematographic Format: Spherical
Color Type: Color
Negative Type: 35mm
Original Country: United States
Original Language: English
Print Type: 35mm
Sound Type: Mono

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