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Tugboat Granny is a 1956 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon animated short directed by Friz Freleng.[2] The short was released on June 23, 1956, and stars Tweety and Sylvester.[3]
Tugboat Granny | |
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Directed by | Friz Freleng |
Story by | Warren Foster |
Produced by | Edward Selzer |
Starring | Mel Blanc June Foray |
Music by | Milt Franklyn |
Animation by | Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Arthur Davis[1] |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Language | English |
The voices were performed by Mel Blanc and June Foray.
The cartoon's title is a play on Tugboat Annie, and is the only cartoon in the Warner Bros. series to bear Granny's name.
It joined Guided Muscle and The Grey Hounded Hare as the cartoons featured on the final episode of ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show on September 2, 2000.
In the opening scene, Granny and Tweety are happily piloting a rented tugboat in a harbor, singing a kiddie-song duet about the carefree joys of their activity. It is the only scene in which Granny appears, as the rest of the cartoon is devoted to Sylvester's latest attempts to catch and eat Tweety, which begins when, after failing to grab a fish by hiding in a fisherman's basket (the fisherman caught a crab instead, which Sylvester gets attacked by), he sees the boat carrying the canary chug past.
Sylvester's attempts, all unsuccessful, include the following:
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