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The Cat Concerto
1947 Tom and Jerry short film
The Cat Concerto
The Cat Concerto is a 1947 American animated cartoon and a Tom and Jerry short. It was released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under their cartoon division on April 26, 1947. The short film centers on Tom's attempts to perform Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 on the piano as Jerry constantly disrupts the performance, leading to an escalation of slapstick antics. The short film was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, and animation by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, and Irven Spence. The Cat Concerto faced a plagiarism dispute with Warner Bros. cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit (1946), as it featured both Tom and Bugs Bunny fighting against a mouse, similar slapstick gags, and the same composition by Liszt. Despite the dispute, the short film won Best Animated Short Subject at the 19th Academy Awards, which served as the fourth consecutive Tom and Jerry film to win an Oscar. Its classical approach would influence the...
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