Calypso Cat (1962)
While chasing Jerry around a dock, Tom sees and instantly falls in love with a female cat. The female cat appears to return Tom's interest, so Tom sneaks aboard the ship the female cat and her owner have just boarded. Jerry follows Tom onto the boat and proceeds to interfere with Tom's subsequent flirtations.
- Date of release
- 1962-06-22
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy
- Director
- Gene Deitch
Interesting facts
Calypso Cat is a Tom and Jerry animated comedy short film, produced in 1961 and released on June 9, 1962. It was the seventh of the thirteen cartoons in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia.
Production
In scoring the Tom and Jerry series, upcoming composer Steven Konichek "found a way forwards" through "avoiding old-style chase music" and "concentrating on atmospheric underscoring" in the Deitch shorts; his cues in this particular cartoon have been described as "dissonantly jazzy".
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