Go Fly a Kit is a 1957 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.
Title[]
The title is a pun on "Go fly a kite".
Plot[]
At the airport, a businessman notices a red cat seemingly waiting for something or someone and is somewhat confused. When he asks the steward, he tells the story of a flying cat.
As a kitten, he was adopted by an elderly mother eagle with an overdeveloped motherly instinct. She raised that kitten like her very own eaglet. He quickly learned to fly by using his tail as a propeller. Both mother and son shared many great times together, but once the kitten grew into an adult cat, he had to say goodbye to his mother, like all eagles. After having trouble fitting in with a flock of blackbirds, one day, he noticed Hector chasing a female cat. He saved her from Hector, using his ability to fly. The cats fell in love with each other. An intense battle between the cat and bulldog ensued, ending with the bulldog stranded on the top of a trash can at the highest part of the skyscraper.
Every winter, the cat flies south. He returns to his girlfriend, along with a group of four flying kittens, who looked like them.
Notes[]
- While this short is often confused for a Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot cartoon, the flying cat is unnamed, and the bulldog is actually Hector from the Friz Freleng-directed Tweety and Sylvester cartoons.
- This said confusion is also highlighted further when the short was released on the Boomerang Streaming Service app in 2017 under the "Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot" banner of Looney Tunes shorts, despite it being technically a one-shot Looney Tunes cartoon. [1]
Availability[]
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc Four
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4 Disc 2
Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volume 5
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack
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