Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.
- 6.8
- 1942
- Released
- 0h 8m
Released
en
- #hays code
- #cartoon
- #breaking the fourth wall
- #cartoon cat
- #homage
- #celebrity caricature
- #anvil
- #self-censorship
- #cartoon bird
- #film censorship
- #short film
- #wartime propaganda
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