The Cat Concerto

The Cat Concerto is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Tom and Jerry series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on April 26 1946 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. It won the 1946 .

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Animated cartoon - Short subject - Tom and Jerry - Technicolor - April 26 - 1946 - Metro-Goldwyn Mayer - Fred Quimby - William Hanna - Joseph Barbera - Scott Bradley

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The plot centres on a formal concerto, where Tom is giving a piano recital of Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt. Jerry, who has been asleep inside the piano, is entranced by the music and sits on top of the grand piano to listen. Tom cannot abide this, and flicks Jerry off the piano. This begins their cat-and-mouse antics, which continue throughout the cartoon. All the while, Tom continues playing without any interruptions regardless of anything either opponent does.

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Concerto - Hungarian Rhapsody - Franz Liszt - Grand piano

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The Warner Bros. animation studio released a very similar cartoon the same year MGM released The Cat Concerto. This cartoon, named Rhapsody Rabbit had a very similar plot to The Cat Concerto, except it featured Bugs Bunny in place of Tom and an unnamed mouse in place of Jerry. Both MGM and Warner Bros accused each other of plagiarism, after both films were shown during the 1946 Academy Awards ceremony.

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Warner Bros. - Rhapsody Rabbit - Bugs Bunny - Plagiarism

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