In MGM’s The Flying Cat, released four years earlier, Tom does the same thing. About the only difference is he doesn’t order one Batman Outfit (Reg. Size) from the Acme Mfg. Co. He makes it out a girdle in a dresser drawer. Well, and Tom doesn’t bash into a wall of rock.
Like Wile E., Tom has a little trouble getting airborne. He expresses concern, then glee.
A little perspective animation (it is MGM, after all).
No! Don’t look at the camera! Don’t you know that never works in a cartoon?
Told you.
The little flying cats are a nice capper to the gag.
The usual animators are at work here: Ken Muse, Irv Spence, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson.
Judging from the drawing, this looks like Ken Muse animation. I'd have to see the cartoon to know for sure.
ReplyDeleteThis gag was used a lot. Sylvester using batman outfit in Trick or Tweet and Yogi Bear uses bat wings to fly in Batty Bear. Both were clearly inspired by gee whiz-z-z-z
ReplyDeleteThis is probably one of the best gags in a "later years" Tom and Jerry short just for how sharp/abrupt the timing is and the daze look in Tom's face..
ReplyDeleteAnd ironic given how Tom and Jerry in turn were adapted to the Roadrunner/Coyote look when Jones himself did the last theatrical batch of T&Js in the mid to late 1960s..SC
ReplyDeleteThis is the same cartoon where Tom saws through the middle of a tree lengthwise - with his crotch. Yeowtch! A "hurt gag" worthy of Famous Studios.
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