128 Baby Puss

Title: Baby Puss
Studio: MGM
Date: 12/25/43
Credits:
Directed by
William Hanna
and
Joseph Barbera
Animation
Kenneth Muse
Ray Patterson
Irven Spence
Pete Burness
Music
Scott Bradley
Produced by
Fred Quimby
Series: Tom and Jerry
Running time (of viewed version): 7:57
Commercial DVD Availability: TJSCv1d1

Synopsis: The humiliations of being a cat dressed as a baby.





















Comments: Silhouette title card. Headless girl. Baby Snooks style kinda sorta? Tom speaks (in deep manly baby talk). Jerry speaks in more of a baby baby talk. Cross dressing burlesque Jerry. Should've been titled "Quimby is Burning." Deals with masculinity and tranvestism and infantilism. Little cat ends up dressed in a Carmen Miranda outfit as well. Off screen butt stabbing. Goldfish in the pants. Too close in time to be a Cleo/Figaro reference. South American style song. Jerry gets castor oiled too, so it's mutually assured destruction all around, which is funnier than one sided destruction. Jerry as a woman bather.

118 What's Buzzin' Buzzard

Title: What's Buzzin' Buzzard?
Studio: MGM
Date: 11/27/43
Credits:
Directed by
Tex Avery
Animation
Ed Love
Ray Abrams
Preston Blair
Music Scott Bradley
Series:
Running time (of viewed version): 8:13
Commercial DVD Availability:

Synopsis: In time of need, two vultures turn on each other.




















Comments: Silhouette title card. Two buzzard cartoons in a row. Shortnin' Bread plays over title. Painted desert painted by local 852; an animation related union for MGM? Jimmy Durante vocal caricature. Don't know if vulture Joe is a vocal caricature. Steak photo. Self referential drooling intertitle. On screen food label. Big bulbous nose on rabbit. Lots of held up signs this cartoon. Mutual tit eyes. Weird reverse curves on vulture skulls. Knifeplay. Rattlesnake pun. Another appearance of meatless Tuesday. Self referential film interruption at the end as well.

104 The Stork's Holiday

Title: The Stork's Holiday
Studio: MGM
Date: 10/23/43
Credits:
Directed by
George Gordon
Animation
Michael Lah
Rudy Zamora
Carl Urbano
Don Williams
Al Grandmain
Story
Otto Englander
Webb Smith
Music
Scott Bradley
Series: -
Running time (of viewed version): 7:45
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Stork smartly decides to not fly through guns to deliver babies; then stupidly changes mind.





















Comments: Newspaper headline text opening. Shadow shot. Bag of kittens. Dropping birthrate should have been true, based on so many of the guys all being overseas. Cool anthropomorphic zeppelin clouds. I love the listening post. I have a drawing of the searchlight eye of Sauron. Cigarette lighter shell. The Nazi versions of anthropomorphic planes. Straight on view of a long gun Big Bertha. Is the stork delivering Nazi babies, or is his base located in Germany? Magazine: Torso. Apparently the Men's Health of its time. Cigar smoking.