It's Got Me Again!
About It's Got Me Again!
At night the mice come out and sing and play, using the song "It's Got Me Again!" A cat shows up. They run him off.
Cast & crew
More about It's Got Me Again!
Rudolf Ising directed this Merrie Melodies short, the eleventh in the series, for Harman-Ising and Leon Schlesinger. It was released May 14, 1932. Frank Marsales wrote the score. The title song is by Bernice Petkere, music, and Irving Caesar, lyrics. Thomas McKimson animated on it, his first Warner Bros. cartoon.
Themes
Making
McKimson, later a layout artist and director, got his first Warner animation credit here.
Music
Frank Marsales scored it. The title song is "It's Got Me Again!" by Bernice Petkere and Irving Caesar.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- It was the first Warner Bros. cartoon nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, at the 5th Academy Awards.
- It was also the first nominated cartoon not made by Disney. Flowers and Trees won.
- The mice perform more than the title song before the cat arrives.
- Harman-Ising produced it under the Schlesinger banner.
Scenes
- The mice play the title tune in the dark.
- The cat is chased back out.
