By Word of Mouse is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
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The title is a play on «by word of mouth.»
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Hans, a mouse from Germany, arrives in America to visit his cousin, Willie. Hans wants to know everything is there to know about the free market capitalist system. Willie takes Hans to see a mouse lecturer from a university, who talks to Hans about the capitalist system. All the while, the three mice are chased by Sylvester.
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- This is the only time that Ben Washam ever animated for the Friz Freleng unit.
- This is the first short to use the 1954-56 pink color rings.
- It is the first of three Looney Tunes shorts underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, followed by «Heir-Conditioned» and «Yankee Dood It».
- The department store Stacy’s is based on Macy’s.
- Hans says «Ich Tawt Ich Taw ein Pussycat» like Tweety Bird’s catchphrase and Tweety says «I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat».
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A foreign mouse comes to America and is amazed by its economic system. He goes to a mouse professor who explains how it works while they are being chased by Sylvester.A foreign mouse comes to America and is amazed by its economic system. He goes to a mouse professor who explains how it works while they are being chased by Sylvester.A foreign mouse comes to America and is amazed by its economic system. He goes to a mouse professor who explains how it works while they are being chased by Sylvester.
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Barack Obama’s election as president today at least suggests that that what Friz Freleng’s «By Word of Mouse» portrays may return. An endorsement of free enterprise and mass production, it applied in the 1950s, before the factories shut down and moved to the third world so that they wouldn’t have to pay the workers anything. But even the economy that we had in the ’50s resulted in consumerism (and, among other things, car dependence). Oh well, at least we had rock ‘n’ roll.
Friz Freleng made two other cartoons like this (all three cartoons starred Sylvester). Fortunately, most of Friz’s cartoons starring Sly had the slobbery cat doing what he did best: chasing Tweety and getting maimed.
- lee_eisenberg
- Nov 4, 2008
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| страна |
США |
| длительность | 8 мин |
| премьера: США | 2 октября 1954 |
| студии производства | Warner Bros.Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
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A short cartoon celebrates mass production
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
This Looney Tunes cartoon from 1954, «By Word of Mouse,» stars everyone’s favorite puddy tat, Sylvester, hunting for supper in the form of three mice who are discussing, believe it or not, the economics of mass production and mass consumption. Sylvester’s interruptions prevent the lesson from dominating this short cartoon, but there’s still enough economic content to please the fans of freedom and flourishing.
By Word of Mouse (1954) from Drunkeynesian on Vimeo.
Hans from the old country visits his city-slicker cousin, Willie, who teaches Hans everything he knows about the capitalist system. When Hans finds Willie’s explanations less than lucid, the two seek the guidance of a university mouse whose economics lectures are conducted on the run from the university cat.
The first of three Warner Brothers cartoons on economic subjects underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation — followed by «Heir-Conditioned» and “Yankee Dood It» — «By Word of Mouse» is a 20th-century update to the Aesop fable «The City Mouse and the Country Mouse.»
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