This is an unusual cartoon, in that it's an example of a "cheater" (a cartoon which incorporates animation from earlier cartoons, in order to save time and money while still meeting the required running time and schedule for animated shorts) taken to the extreme. Because I want to discuss the short a bit, this is a spoiler warning:
This short is, in essence, a cartoon directed by Tex Avery in 1950, one called The Ventriloquist Cat. What they did was take the original animation, re-use it against new backgrounds, changed the cat from black to orange and shoot it in a widescreen format. Given that a large chunk of the work was already done, they probably did this because the studio wanted to make use of the widescreen process on their animated shorts as well and this was an easy way to get experience at making such cartoons, while keeping on schedule and at or under budget. If you've seen Ventriloquist Cat, you've seen Cat's Meow, at least for all practical purposes.
They did this same thing to another Avery short, taking a Droopy short entitled From Wags To Riches, making very few modifications and releasing it in widescreen as Millionaire Droopy.
If you really like Tex Avery (I do) then this is worth seeing.
This short is, in essence, a cartoon directed by Tex Avery in 1950, one called The Ventriloquist Cat. What they did was take the original animation, re-use it against new backgrounds, changed the cat from black to orange and shoot it in a widescreen format. Given that a large chunk of the work was already done, they probably did this because the studio wanted to make use of the widescreen process on their animated shorts as well and this was an easy way to get experience at making such cartoons, while keeping on schedule and at or under budget. If you've seen Ventriloquist Cat, you've seen Cat's Meow, at least for all practical purposes.
They did this same thing to another Avery short, taking a Droopy short entitled From Wags To Riches, making very few modifications and releasing it in widescreen as Millionaire Droopy.
If you really like Tex Avery (I do) then this is worth seeing.