Wot a Night
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Directed by | R-K-O Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 8 minutes 19 seconds |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Wot a Night is a 1931 animated film. It is the first film in Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry series, later re-issued as "Dick and Larry".
Plot
In their first film, Tom and Jerry are
They reach a castle, and as the men walk in, Tom and Jerry run to the men to be paid, but are locked inside. Then, a cloud turns into a human-like figure with arms. He then plays
They come to a room where a skeleton is cleaning itself. After this point, they are sure that paranormal things are happening. Odd things that happen include: ghosts standing behind them, finding a skeleton playing a piano while another skeleton dances to the music, a glove dancing, and a blackface quartette of skeletons singing a song, which includes a few lines from versions of "Golden Slippers", such as a "long white robe" and a "starry crown", and to stop gambling.
After these things have happened, the two men walk in and point at Jerry. Jerry lifts his shirt, and now realizes that he is a skeleton, too. Tom laughs, and now realizes that he is a skeleton when Jerry lifts his shirt, too. Tom is terrified, and as both men run for their lives, the cartoon ends.
References in the series
- The third part of the blackface skeletons' performance was retooled into "Plane Dumb", a later film in the series.
External links
- https://archive.org/details/TomAndJerryWotANight Watch or download from Archive.org
- Wot a Night on YouTube