“Salt Water Tabby” Draft, Pt. One


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Hello Readers, I apologize for the long gaps between posts lately. I’m getting some nice mail regarding Little Grey from old friends like Bill Warren and David Gerstein. Milt Gray gave me a hopeful message verbally: “Someday another kitty may come along.” A cat that needs you is the best kind of cat to have, and that’s certainly what Little Grey was.

Here is part one of my draft to “Salt Water Tabby”, I’m pretty sure about the scene IDs in the first part, in the second there are a few gaps. We’ll get around to that next time:

Salt Water Tabby–Barge, Lah, Muse credited

Tom comes out of Beach Club House in red suit, closes door pinching suit, runs out–Lah

Tom tries to dive into ocean, suit stretches, pulled back to Club House–Lah

Tom crashes into Club House, making hole in the door, runs out again on long pan, dives onto dry beach as tide goes out, swims in junk lying on beach, tries to get water out of his ear, runs out, junk dripping from inside his suit–Lah

Tom jogs past “Toodles”, girl cat, falls into trash container–Muse

Tom slides into shot with grapefruit on his head, tips it to Toodles like a hat–Muse

MCU Tom sips Toodles’s soda, grabs her hot dog–Muse

CU Tom eats hot dog with typewriter sound efx.–Muse

MCU Tom antics., lies in Toodles’s lap, hit by tomato, banana, looks left, pan over to basket, Tom into shot with shovel–Muse

CU Jerry eats bologna from sandwiches, grabs hard boiled egg–Muse

CU Jerry throws eggs and olives at Tom, forming an extra set of “eyes”–Muse

CU Jerry chews celery in Tom’s hand,.taking bites out of his finger, Tom yells–Muse

Jerry runs on pan, hides in rocks, Tom in, reaches into rocks–Muse

CU Tom grabs crab, crab nips his whiskers off–Barge

Tom tries to run away, crab pinches his tail–Barge

CU Tom up in pain, exits fast–Barge

Tom runs behind rock, looks at tail, it’s cut like paper dolls–Barge

Jerry runs up beach umbrella handle, steps on catch–Barge

Umbrella closes on Tom–Barge

Jerry exits Tom’s pants, runs on pan to crab, crab tries to pinch him, both run out left–Barge

Jerry pursued by crab, in cycle–Barge

Jerry holds up Tom’s trunk leg, crab runs up his trunks, snaps him four times in the rear–Barge

Tom and umbrella flie up in the air, come down on tip–Barge

CU crab opens rear of Tom’s trunks like beer can with claw, crab hops out of shot–Barge

Jerry out of basket with soda pop, runs into Tom, Tom pops off bottle cap, puts it on Jerry’s head–Ray Patterson

Jerry feels his way with cap over his eyes–Muse

Jerry trips over crab’s claw, uses it to get bottle cap off his head, crab almost snaps him, exit–Muse

Jerry runs behind picnic basket, looks screen right–Lah

Tom takes sandwich from Toodles–Muse

Jerry runs in with clam, puts it in the sandwich–Muse

CU Tom bites sandwich with clam in it, teeth break off–Muse

Tom giggles to Toodles, tries to nonchalantly swallow the sandwich with effort–Muse

CU Tom with broken teeth–Muse

Jerry runs over with bucket of sand, no suit on–Muse

Tom spoons sugar into coffee cup, truck into sugar bowl-Muse

Jerry with suit on, subs sand for sugar, puts extra shovel of sand in coffee-Muse

CU Tom drinks sandy coffee, spits it out–Muse

Jerry scoops salt water in bucket from ocean, runs on pan–Muse

Tom choking, Jerry in with bucket, Tom grabs bucket, drinks, spits it out in Toodles’s face–Muse

The Jim Tyer text illo is from LAFFY-DAFFY COMICS #1. None other than Art Spiegelman has borrowed my copy to scan for an upcoming book called “RAW: Junior”, I assume it’s a collection of comics originally aimed at children. Watch for it.

In comic strips this week we have MARVELOUS MIKE from 3/4 to 3/9/1957. Cliff has a conflict of interest as a working judge and employee of Mr. Kimball. It seems a pal of Kimball’s needs a ticket fixed, but Cliff is too ethical to do it and seems doomed to lose his position with Kimball and Co. In the meantime, Cliff narrowly manages to rescue Mike and Merrie from being run-down by Mr. Kimball’s car! In Krazy Kat this week from 7/24 to 7/29/1939, we have two days of Krazy’s grief over the lack of a “love brick” from Ignatz, the balance of the week Garge does mostly food gags, with watermelons and ice cream bricks.

Don’t forget our cels for sale on this site, www.itsthecat.com. I have had some so-so reports from customers on the viability of the www.mytoons.com site. It seems that it is quite complicated to download the “It’s ‘The Cat'” movie. I tried it, and the site requires you to 1. Register to get a user name and password. 2. Go to my window in the My Toons store and click on the “buy” or “add to my cart” link. 3. Pay the $1.99 with a credit card or Paypal link. 4. The “file” goes into a “digital safe”, which you have to re-enter your user name and password to get in to. 5. Click on the icon in your “digital safe” to download the movie file to your computer. 6. Save the file in a favorite spot on your hard-drive; I use “My Music”. 7. Open the file and choose a player. Not all of the players work, I can’t seem to play it in Winamp, but Quick Time played the movie without a hitch. Some of the customers can’t get it to play at all. I’ve taken this up with My Toons, as way too complicated for the average customer. This after all, is an impulse buy. Once the “nickel” is dropped, the customer should be able to see the cartoon IMMEDIATELY, preferably in a POP-UP WINDOW. Do any of you computer jockeys out there know if this is technically feasible? Write and let me know. I hope to hear from you.

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