The Seapreme Court
About The Seapreme Court
Little Audrey falls off a pier while fishing and sinks to the sea floor, where a fish constable arrests her. A jury of sardines finds her guilty and sentences her to the eel-ectric chair. She tries to run, is caught, and the eel shocks her awake: it was a dream. She reels in a small fish, throws it back, and the fish grants her an "OfFISHal Pardon."
Cast & crew
More about The Seapreme Court
Seymour Kneitel directed, with Tom Golden as animation director. Larz Bourne wrote the story. Paramount released the Noveltoon on January 29, 1954.
Themes
Making
Winston Sharples wrote the score. An IMDb review by tavm notes a circulating print that opens with a Harvey Films logo, from after Paramount sold the character to Harvey.
Reviews
Reviewer tavm, on IMDb, pointed to literal gags such as a widow fish whose husband was "canned," and to the eel-ectric chair.
Music
Winston Sharples composed the score. Mae Questel, Jackson Beck, and Jack Mercer supply the voices.
Preservation
Public domain in the United States since 1982. Most circulating prints splice the sardine-jury introduction. Some open with a Harvey Films card.
Notes
- The title folds "sea" into "Supreme Court.
- Mae Questel voices Audrey and an orange fish. Jackson Beck is the judge fish. Jack Mercer covers a tall red fish, a carp, an old sailfish, an octopus, a sardine, and a clam.
- Cecil Roy and Sid Raymond voice the smaller fish, the sardines, a widow fish, and a whale.
- The fishing nightmare and the fish court echo the 1947 Little Lulu shorts A Bout with a Trout and Musica-Lulu.
- Most prints have a splice where the sardine jury introduces itself. That cut has aired on MeTV Toons.
- Harvey Films missed the renewal, and the short entered the U.S. public domain in 1982.
Scenes
- A sardine jury convicts Audrey on the sea floor.
- She is strapped to an electric eel.
- Awake on the pier, she throws the fish back and gets an "OfFISHal Pardon.
Also available
- DVD HarveyToons: The Complete Collection (Classic Media, 2006)
- DVD The Best of the Harveytoons Show (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2021)
- DVD Cartoon Craze, Volume 17: Little Lulu / Little Audrey — The Lost Dream (Digiview, 2004)
- DVD 300 Cartoon Classics (Image Entertainment, 2011)
Quotes
OfFISHal Pardon
