Nuts about Mutts
Happy Labor Day!
We’re all about pooches and pups as we unleash Man’s Best Friend Week. Today’s toon “Mutt in a Rut” stars that Pluto wannabe, Dogface, one of Paramount/Famous Studio’s parade of character knock-offs (Herman and Katnip were imitations of MGM’s Tom and Jerry, Baby Huey was an imitation of Warner’s Baby Bear, Little Audrey was an imitation of, umm, well, Paramount’s own Little Lulu — but that’s another story.)
The plot for 1949’s “Mutt” is pretty much stolen from Disney’s “Pluto’s Judgement Day” back in 1935. Still a fairly good cartoon. Dogface torment’s a little kitten, is knocked unconscious, thinks he has died. The animated version of puppy heaven is very creative, full of some neat ideas, but, irony of ironies, it’s when things go to hell that this cartoon gets really funny (also, more than a tad sadistic!)
Come sniffing around tomorrow and we’ll have another canine cartoon classic!
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On September 5th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Why isn’t the latest week of cartoons up in the archive or the RSS?
On September 5th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I’ll add that the itunes podcast section isn’t downloading them either.
On September 6th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Sorry agout that, gang! Technical difficultities!
On September 6th, 2006 at 12:00 am
There was an interesting edit in there - when Dog Face is in front of the judge, the judge is sudddenly holding a shot glass which he then throws away. I assume he poured himself a shot to clear his throat and drank it, but some prude cut it out of the print.
On September 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Yeah, good observation! I think your guess sounds spot on. Decades ago I worked a local TV station and came across a reel of 16mm film stashed on a shelf… about 15 minutes long. It contained over a dozen short excerpts clipped from features, presumably for censorship reasons. The amazing thing was how utterly inoffensive everthing was; a conversation between a husband and wife, the woman sitting in a neck deep bubble bath or paul Newman drinking wine straight from the bottle. I thought at the time somewhere there are 16mm prints of these movies floating around, mildly mutilated — how disturbing!