King-Size Canary (1947)
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- Approved
- 8min
- Animation, Short
- 06 Dec 1947 (USA)
- Short
A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...
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Cast
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| Tex Avery | ... |
Cat (uncredited)
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| Sara Berner | ... |
Canary (uncredited)
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| Pinto Colvig | ... |
Cat (uncredited) (voice)
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Frank Graham | ... |
Mouse (uncredited) (voice)
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Bob Laztny | ... |
Cat (speaking) (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Tex Avery | ||
Written by
| Heck Allen | ... | (story) |
Produced by
| William Hanna | ... | co-producer (uncredited) |
| Fred Quimby | ... | producer |
Music by
| Scott Bradley | ||
Production Management
| Carman Maxwell | ... | production manager (uncredited) |
Sound Department
| Fred MacAlpin | ... | sound effects editor (uncredited) |
Animation Department
| Ray Abrams | ... | animator |
| Robert Bentley | ... | animator |
| Walt Clinton | ... | animator (as Walter Clinton) / character designer (uncredited) / layout artist (uncredited) |
| John Didrik Johnsen | ... | background artist (uncredited) / layout artist (uncredited) |
| Irven Spence | ... | animator (uncredited) / character designer (uncredited) |
| Gil Turner | ... | animator (uncredited) |
Music Department
| Scott Bradley | ... | musical director |
Production Companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (controlled by Loew's Incorporated)
Distributors
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1947) (United States) (theatrical) (controlled by Loew's Incorporated)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1947) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1948) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1948) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1955) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical) (35mm print Technicolor)
- Vídeo Arte (Brazil) (VHS) ("O Mundo Encantado dos Desenhos da Metro")
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | In animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was rated the tenth greatest cartoon of all time. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons (1988). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Listen to the Mockingbird See more » |
| Quotes |
[last line and scenery]
Mouse: Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna have to end this picture. We just ran out of the stuff. Good night. [after this quote, spoken by the mouse, the cat and mouse are at equal height standing on top of the Earth. They have an arm on the neck of each other in friendship and both begin waving farewell to viewers, just before the closing credits' music begin] See more » |