Katnip Kollege
At the Katnip Kollege, a roomful of cats take a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and must sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally...
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"This is a cute, rather charming musical short patterned after things like Along Flirtation Walk and Varsity Show. The lead character, Johnny, might as well have "Dick Powell" stenciled on his forehead and the professor reminds me of Kay Kyser. The music is infectious and entertaining, even if the plot is as thin as a piece of gauze. Come to think of it, the plots of those old musicals this is patterned after are pretty much just as thin and this is much shorter than those were! Warner Brothers made a fair number of these musical cartoons, because the animation department had access ..."
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There are several references in the dialogue and lyrics of this cartoon that the 21st Century viewer might not know: "Make it sound like Kostelanetz" refers to Andre Kostelanetz, a Russian-born American conductor and arranger of popular orchestral music. "Trucking" was a dance introduced at the Cotton Club in 1933 and "Pecking" was a dance introduced there in 1937. "But Rhythm's Wall they're keeping" refers to a brand of clock called the Rhythm Wall clock, which kept a clear, almost musical time rhythm. (c.f. the clock the nerdy cat uses to help himself find the rhythm)
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At the Katnip Kollege, a roomful of cats take a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and must sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally...