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Freudy Cat
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Wikipedia article
'Freudy Cat' is a 1964 Warner Bros. 'Looney Tunes' animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on March 14, 1964, and stars Sylvester the Cat, Sylvester Jr. and Hippety Hopper.
A paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as 'Who's Kitten Who?', 'Cats A-Weigh!', and 'The Slap-Hoppy Mouse' while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks Hippety Hopper is out to get him.
Soundtrack Anomaly
The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by Carl Stalling (while alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. That results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylvester visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain stock music pieces by Philip Green that play over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.
Notes
* This was the last theatrical appearance of both Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.
References
Category:1964 films
Category:1964 animated films
Category:1964 short films
Category:1960s Warner Bros. animated short films
Category:Looney Tunes shorts
Category:Sylvester the Cat films
Category:Films about fatherson relationships
Category:Animated films about kangaroos and wallabies
Category:Films directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Films scored by Carl Stalling
Category:Films scored by William Lava
Category:Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
Category:1960s English-language films
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