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The Zoot Cat
The Zoot Cat
	Title card
Directed by	Bill Hanna; Joseph Barbera
Story by	Jerry Mann
Produced by	Fred Quimby (uncredited on original issue)
Starring	Bill Hanna; Jerry Mann; Sara Berner
Edited by	Fred MacAlpin
Music by	Scott Bradley
Animation by	Ray Patterson; Ken Muse; Irven Spence; Pete Burness; Jack Zander (uncredited) ; Assisted by:; Tony Ligerra; Barney Posner
Layouts by	Harvey Eisenberg
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	MGM Cartoons
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	January 27, 1944 (Premiere); February 26, 1944 (United States);
Running time	7:03
Language	English

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The Zoot Cat is a 1944 American Technicolor one-reel animated short and is the 13th Tom and Jerry short.^[4] It was released to theatres on February 26, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[1]

Plot

Tom prepares a Valentine's Day surprise for Toots, complete with a gift box containing a note from Jerry. Despite his efforts to impress her with music, dance, Toots rejects Tom's advances, calling him, "corny", and leaving him humiliated.

After Tom hears from Toots' radio of the latest style, he dons a homemade zoot suit to impress her. Jerry, seizing the opportunity, teases Tom relentlessly, eventually outsmarting him and stealing the spotlight in the stylish suit.

Voice cast

Jerry Mann as Tom and the Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Sara Berner as Jerry and the Girl Cat^[3]
Additional Voices by Billy Bletcher^[1] and Dick Nelson^[2]

Availability

VHS

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Classics 2^[5]

Laserdisc

The Art of Tom & Jerry: Volume One, Side Two^[6]^[7]

DVD

Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 1
Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 1, Disc One
Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Volume One, Disc One

Blu-ray

Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Volume One, Disc One

iTunes

Tom and Jerry Vol. 1^[8]

Streaming

Boomerang App

Censorship

Because of the United Kingdom's ban of TV characters smoking, Jerry smoking a cigar and a cigarette and Jerry putting the cigarette on Tom's nose is faded out.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The Zoot Cat (1944)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900–1999) (Second ed.). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
^ ^a ^b Baxter, Devon (December 6, 2017). "Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
^ "..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site : TOM AND JERRY DVD/VHS::." www.tomandjerryonline.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
^ "LaserDisc Database – Art of Tom & Jerry, The: Volume I [ML102682]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
^ Simon, Ben (July 14, 2003). "The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One – Animated Views". Animated Views. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
^ "Tom and Jerry, Vol. 1". iTunes. September 25, 1965. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
^ "Films in Review » The Zoot Cat". filmsinreview.lib.byu.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2020.

External links

The Zoot Cat at IMDb

[ZootToons-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The Zoot Cat (1944)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2020.

[ZootGraham-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900–1999) (Second ed.). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.

[BaxterZoot-3] Baxter, Devon (December 6, 2017). "Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved February 7, 2020.

[4] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.

[5] "..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site : TOM AND JERRY DVD/VHS::." www.tomandjerryonline.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.

[6] "LaserDisc Database – Art of Tom & Jerry, The: Volume I [ML102682]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.

[7] Simon, Ben (July 14, 2003). "The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One – Animated Views". Animated Views. Retrieved February 9, 2020.

[8] "Tom and Jerry, Vol. 1". iTunes. September 25, 1965. Retrieved February 14, 2020.

[9] "Films in Review » The Zoot Cat". filmsinreview.lib.byu.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2020.

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