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King-Size Canary

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  • Theatrical Short
  • MGM
  • Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Cartoon Characters: Canary, Cat, Mouse, Dog.
  • Voice Actors: Dick Nelson, Sara Berner, Frank Graham.
  • Directed By Tex Avery.
  • Produced By Fred Quimby.
  • Animated By Ray Abrams, Walter Clinton, Robert Bentley.
  • Written By Heck Allen.
  • Originally Released on December 06, 1947.
  • Originally Released Theatrically.
  • Running Time: 7:56 minutes.
  • TechniColor
  • U.S.A.  U.S.A.
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While searching for food, a hungry cat finds a mouse who tells him where to find a tasty canary. However, the canary is scrawny because he's been sick, so the cat...  (more)

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King Sized Canary

Comments By: jspilka
This is one my favorite cartoons of all time. All laffs aside, my take on it (considering the time it came out) was that it was a brilliant Cold War metaphor; prophetic about the looming tit for tat arms race that was just around the...  (read more)
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The Build-Up

Comments By: peterhale
I think what makes "King-Size Canary" so great is the careful build-up that leads us to accept the basic premise. Whether this was conscious or the story just evolved like that I don't know, but there is a definite step-by-step dismantling of...  (read more)
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King-Size Canary

Comments By: damfine
Most of Tex Avery's cartoons towers over the rest of the industry. This one towers over those.
Avery was indeed the master.
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