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19-490: Henery Hawk discusses his cravings with his father, who then reveals the reason behind them: "Your mother and I are outcasts, hated and hunted because of what we are: chicken hawks . And you, you, Henery, you're a chicken hawk too. And like all chicken hawks, you crave to eat - a chicken." More enthusiastic than his father, Henery sets out to find a chicken. Meanwhile, in a barnyard, the Barnyard Dawg deliberately throws

38-484: A chicken, I'm a chicken hawk, and I'm gonna eat chicken!"). The Dawg realizes he has been the victim of Foghorn's prank and points out that Foghorn is the one he should be going after, being a chicken. Foghorn tries to deflect his argument by accusing the Dawg ("Don't you call me, I say don't you call ME a chicken, you...chicken!"), but by then, Henery realizes he has been tricked. Henery pays Foghorn back by releasing

57-431: A knight's helmet on the Dawg and whacks the Dawg in the side of the head many times, causing the Dawg's head to literally shake inside. Foghorn soon gives Henery an idea to "outsmart" the "foxy chicken". Henery lures the Dawg out with music, causing him to suffer mishaps culminating in him landing on a rollerskate. When the Dawg surrenders and asks Henery what he is looking for, Henery tells the Dawg his intentions (" You're

76-443: A piano key, and Tom tries unsuccessfully to hit him with the key and smash him. Jerry manipulates the piano's keys from inside, irritating Tom, who hits him with a tuning tool. In retaliation, Jerry slams the keyboard lid on Tom's fingers and tries to cut his finger with scissors. After several failed attempts, Jerry sets a mousetrap, catching Tom's finger. Tom climbs onto the piano to chase Jerry, playing with his feet. Jerry dances on

95-444: A watermelon on an unsuspecting Foghorn Leghorn , who is done filing his nails ("Every day it's the same thing!", complains Foghorn). As payback, just as the Dawg goes to sleep, Foghorn spanks the Dawg with a paddle , angering him into chasing Foghorn, but his leash stops him from going further. To add insult to injury, Foghorn slaps the angrily barking Dawg, while yelling at him to "AHH SHADDAP!!!". Henery meets Foghorn, who, seeing

114-635: Is included, digitally remastered, in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection . It is also part of Bugs Bunny: Superstar Part 2 in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 . It is also in the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 Blu-ray and DVD and streaming on HBO Max. Henery Hawk Too Many Requests If you report this error to

133-405: The 1947 Academy Awards ceremony. Technicolor was accused of sending a print of one cartoon to the competing studio, which allegedly plagiarized its rival's work. The details of this accusation remain uncertain, although Rhapsody Rabbit has an earlier MPAA certificate number and release date, while The Cat Concerto had a higher production number at #165, compared to the other shorts released around

152-420: The Dawg in the head like he is playing croquet with croquet mallet and runs with the Dawg angrily barking again, only with a headache. Henery is still running, but Foghorn tells Henery not to give up, and Henery literally carries the dog house with the Dawg in it like a train while the Dawg investigates with a mirror, sees Henery, and lifts up his house and gives chase, but is choked and falls again and Foghorn puts

171-453: The Dawg on Foghorn, who barely manages to escape and is chased by the angry Dawg into a barn , where an actual horse forcibly ejects them, clunking their heads together in the process. The two foes, shaking hands to prove solidarity , re-enter to double-team the horse. Henery marches in after them and, in a few seconds, captures Foghorn, the Dawg, and the horse, with the hapless rooster vainly trying to escape. Mimicking Foghorn, he tells

190-506: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 947551763 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:52:55 GMT The Cat Concerto The Cat Concerto is a 1947 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 29th Tom and Jerry short , released to theatres on April 26, 1947. It

209-461: The camera that "One of these things, I say, one of these things , has got to be a chicken!" as he walks off with his prizes. After Robert McKimson was promoted director in late 1944, writer Warren Foster developed a story about a large rooster, a barnyard dog and the inclusion of Henery Hawk (a character created by Chuck Jones ). Dialogue was recorded on January 13, 1945. Animation producer Paul Dini writes, "Bugs and Porky — indeed, most of

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228-487: The classic Warner Bros. characters — underwent years of refinement before they became stars. Not so Foghorn Leghorn, who exploded fully formed and bellowing in Walky Talky Hawky . Though he soon lost his realistic chicken squawks, Foghorn retained his bellicose personality and barrel-bellied design for the remainder of his theatrical career... McKimson's comic equation of rooster plus board plus dog's butt may lack

247-548: The duo their fourth consecutive Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , tied with Walt Disney Productions ' musical series, Silly Symphonies . The short also appears in Empire magazine's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time list as the number 434. Film critic The Chiel of Australian newspaper The Age declared The Cat Concerto to be the best film of 1947, above Odd Man Out and Brief Encounter , stating that "in conception and animation I think that short reaches

266-526: The felts, briefly changing the tune. Tom bounces Jerry with a chord, eventually catching him and throwing him into the piano stool. Jerry manipulates the seat controls, sending Tom crashing onto the keys. Tom, fed up, stuffs Jerry into the piano felts and goes wild on the piano. The felts bash Jerry around, but he emerges angry and retaliates by playing the rhapsody's finale (along with two false endings ) with felts as drumsticks, causing Tom to collapse in exhaustion. The audience applauds, and Jerry takes credit for

285-432: The hawk as a potential pawn against the Dawg, convinces Henery that he is a horse, while the Dawg is a chicken, and Henery goes up to the Dawg and bites his tail, causing the Dawg to wake up from his nap in pain. The Dawg grabs Henery and growls at him. Henery warns the Dawg, "Are you coming quietly or do I have to muss ya up?!", but the Dawg chases Henery, but gets choked on the leash again and falls again while Foghorn whacks

304-461: The highest level of screen fantasy and humor." In the same year that MGM produced The Cat Concerto, Warner Bros. released a similar Bugs Bunny cartoon titled Rhapsody Rabbit , directed by Friz Freleng , featuring Bugs Bunny facing off against an unnamed mouse. Both cartoons shared nearly identical gags, featured the same piece by Franz Liszt, and had similar endings. The studios accused each other of plagiarism when both films were submitted for

323-407: The performance as a spotlight shines on him. Following its release, The Cat Concerto was met with critical acclaim, and is considered one of the best Tom and Jerry cartoons. With an early showing in 1946 it qualified for and won the 1946 Oscar for Best Short Subject: Cartoons . In 1994, it was voted #42 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time by members of the animation field. The short won

342-423: The poetic elegance of comic-strip artist George Herriman's mouse plus brick plus Krazy Kat's head. However, the merry brutality worked well enough to ensure seventeen years of constant laughs — and in the case of Walky Talky Hawky , an Academy Award nomination." The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons , losing to MGM 's Tom and Jerry short, The Cat Concerto . The short

361-509: Was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera , with musical supervision by Scott Bradley , and animation by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Irven Spence and uncredited animation by Don Patterson. At a formal concert, Tom, dressed in a white tie, plays Franz Liszt 's " Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 " on the piano. Jerry, who lives inside the piano, disrupts Tom's performance by mock-conducting him. Tom tries to flick Jerry away but continues playing. Jerry emerges from under

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