Smarty Cat

Smarty Cat
File:Smarty Cat Titles.JPG The title card of Smarty Cat
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Animation by	Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Michael Lah
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time	6 minutes 50 seconds

Smarty Cat is a 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in 1955. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was the last of the Hanna and Barbera-directed "wrap-around" cartoons in which the plot is based on flashbacks to earlier cartoons.

Plot

Tom's feline friends (Butch, kitten and orange cat) bring over their home movies featuring moments from Tom's past where he humiliates Spike the bulldog (Tom the Terrific Cat). Jerry innocently wants to view the home movies as well, but the cats kick him out of the house several times. Frustrated and at the end of his tether, Jerry brings Spike over to peek at the home movies through the window. Spike sees himself being depicted as a bumbling fool and breaks into the screening, running off after the cats. Jerry films the ensuing action with his own movie camera.

Notes

The cartoons featured in the flashbacks are:

Solid Serenade (1946)

Cat Fishin' (1946)

Fit to be Tied (1952)

The closing titles do not display the usual "An MGM Tom and Jerry Cartoon" caption that usually end a Tom and Jerry cartoon, but rather the standard blue "An MGM Cartoon" card.