Cheese Burglar
About Cheese Burglar
In Herman's house the cat and the dog sing about what pals they are and guard the refrigerator with popguns. Herman marks off a 29th day without food, February 29 on his calendar, and decides the only way to the cheese is to remind them they are supposed to be enemies. While they sleep he runs a tube from the dog's nose to the gas stove and puts a gas mask on the cat. They start a knife fight, hear Herman congratulating himself, and make up. They fake their deaths, chase him into a wine jug, and drink until the dog, the cat, and the mouse are all drunk.
Cast & crew
More about Cheese Burglar
Isadore Sparber is the credited director. Jim Tyer laid the short out and animated it with William Henning and Ben Solomon. Carl Meyer and Joe Stultz wrote the story. The Internet Animation Database dates the Paramount release May 17, 1946, and times a Technicolor print at 6 minutes 47 seconds.
Themes
Making
Tyer timed this one himself, which is unusual for a Noveltoon. His scenes bend the bodies. Henning keeps the poses solid, and Solomon turns the characters in space.
Music
Winston Sharples arranged the music. The cat and dog sing, off key, about their friendship.
Preservation
Thunderbean's restoration, supervised by Steve Stanchfield, is the sharp copy in circulation.
Notes
- Herman's first cartoon without a partner. Scrappily Married (1945) still teamed him with Henry the rooster.
- Jackson Beck, Carl Meyer, and Arnold Stang are the voices.
- One of two non-Popeye shorts animated by Jim Tyer in 1946. The other is Spree for All.
- First Noveltoon with the post-1945 opening: credits on a blue card and a separate Famous Studios title. The fade out of the jack-in-the-box is still black, not blue.
- Steve Stanchfield restored the picture for Thunderbean. Milton Knight and Thad Komorowski helped identify the animators.
Scenes
- Herman hooks the sleeping dog's nose to the gas jet and masks the cat.
- The pair hear him brag and drop the knife fight.
- All three end up tight after the cat and dog drink the jug Herman is hiding in.
Also available
- DVD: Noveltoons Original Classics (Thunderbean Animation)
- Blu-ray: Noveltoons Original Classics (2019, Thunderbean Animation)
