The Cat Concerto
The Cat Concerto is a Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in 1946 by MGM studios. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. The music was arranged for the cartoon by Scott Bradley. It won the 1946 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
The plot centres on a formal concerto, where Tom is giving a piano recital of Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt. Jerry, who has been asleep inside the piano, is entranced by the music and sits on top of the grand piano to listen. Tom cannot abide this, and flicks Jerry off the piano. This begins their cat-and-mouse antics, which continue throughout the cartoon.
The Warner Brothers animation studio released a very similar cartoon the same year MGM released The Cat Concerto. This cartoon, named "Rhapsody Rabbit" had a very similar plot to The Cat Concerto, except it featured Bugs Bunny in place of Tom and an unnamed mouse in place of Jerry. Both MGM and Warner Brothers accused each other of stealing their ideas.
External references
- , a section of Nicola Watts' "Cartoons and Music" 1997 media studies project at Glasgow University.
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