Trip for Tat

Trip For Tat is a 1960 Merrie Melodies animated short starring Looney Tunes characters Sylvester, Tweety, and Granny.[2]

Trip For Tat
Directed by	Friz Freleng
Produced by	John W. Burton
Story by	Michael Maltese[1]
Starring	Mel Blanc June Foray (uncredited)
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Gerry Chiniquy Tom Ray Virgil Ross
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by	Tom O'Loughlin
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	October 29, 1960 (US premiere)
Running time	6 min (one reel)
Language	English

Although it contains a new plot, wherein Granny and Tweety travel to various locations (Paris, Swiss Alps, Japan, and Italy) while Sylvester tries to catch Tweety in every one, the cartoon is mostly made up of footage from previous cartoons. Here are the cartoons which the short borrows animation from, in order of appearance:

• Tweety's S.O.S. (1951): The entire boat sequence.
• Tree Cornered Tweety (1956): The sequence where Sylvester tries to catch Tweety on skis, as well as the bridge scene (with the American fisherman changed to a stereotypical Japanese fisherman).
• Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951): The sequence where Sylvester swings towards Tweety on a balcony while barely avoiding a construction pillar.
• A Pizza Tweety Pie (1958): The final sequence where Sylvester eats spaghetti in the restaurant.

The only new animation in the short is at the beginning when the world tour is described to Granny, the finger painting sequence, when Sylvester is first in The Alps and Japan, and Tweety looking up at Sylvester cutting through the floorboards.

References

1. Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 146. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
2. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 328. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.