Catnip capers (Terrytoons 1940)

This cartoon is among the best cartoons TerryToons ever produced, and for my money, one of the best cartoons ever. It starts out like a typical Terry cat and mouse cartoon, but before long, it's gone off on a wild tangent into feline surrealism and exotica.

The backgrounds in this cartoons are spectacular. If anyone out there knows who laid out or painted these, please post to the comments below. There are times where backgrounds and layout are equal in importance to the animation of the characters... a couple of good examples would be the end of Tex Avery's "King Size Canary" and the St. James Infirmary Blues sequence of "Betty Boop in Snow White". This cartoon certainly fits in that category as well.

Terrytoons have been ufairly criticized as being "flaccid", "predictable" and "boring" in just about every animation history book that references them. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has made it a goal to collect and make available as much of the output of the studio as possible to put the lie to those mischaracterizations.

http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=633

Theatrical Cartoon
TerryToon Cartoons
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Directed By Mannie Davis.
Produced By Paul Terry.
Written By John Foster.
Originally Released on May 31, 1940.
Originally Released Theatrically.
Black & White
U.S.A.

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Film & Animation

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[KrazyKartoonKid]

It's good to have another Terrytoons fan. I love WB, MGM and all the others but Terrytoons is not as bad as everyone thinks.

[sa1vi]

@KrazyKartoonKid I think like you! I love all cartoons!

[durece100]

Pink Elephant! 2:47

[SparkyMK3]

Great stuff! I love it!