Policy and Pie

1918 Animation Directed by Gregory La Cava

About Policy and Pie

The Captain's hat moves on the floor. A black cat is under it. He hits the cat with a brush at the same instant flour from Mama's pie blows over her and turns her white.

Cast & crew

More about Policy and Pie

Gregory La Cava directed the cartoon in 1918. The gag is the cat, the brush, and the flour landing together.

Themes

  • A hat that moves
  • A cat and a brush
  • Flour from a pie
  • Gregory La Cava
  • cat
  • pie
  • cartoon

Notes

  • The hat moves before the cat is seen.
  • Mama is white with flour at the end of the same beat.
  • The brush and the pie hit on one action.

Scenes

  • The Captain finds the cat under the hat.
  • Mama comes up white with flour.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-policy-and-pie)