The Kornered Kitties

I get the feeling that Bob Clampett told his animators “Go as much over the top as you want to” when Kitty Kornered was in production. Some of the takes are just insane.

Porky’s pets are drinking, relaxing on a couch, smoking El Ropos and chowing down on chocolates when the pig bursts in.



Some reaction drawings. Nobody but Clampett would have had anything like this in their cartoons.



The littlest cat spits out a chocolate he’s eating. These are consecutive frames. This must be Manny Gould at work.



The characters are panicked a lot in this cartoon. Here’s a great example.



Gould, Rod Scribner and Bill Melendez receive screen credits for animation. This seems to have been the third-last cartoon Clampett directed before he left Warner Bros.

The verdict in the Motion Picture Herald from Fred J. Hutchings of the Community Theatre in Leader, Saskatchewan, not far from the Alberta border: “Not too good. There have been better cartoons from this company.” Said the Showmen’s Trade Review: “All Right. Porky Pig and the cat have a runaround here which goes so fast it is hard at times to follow the action on the screen. However, this crazy pace is going to pep up any program, so you will probably want this one. Artwork and Technicolor are splendid.”