Sniffles Takes a Trip

Sniffles Takes a Trip
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Airdate:	11 May 1940 Blue Ribbon reissue: 1 August 1953
Series:	Merrie Melodies
MPAA Number:	5718
Production Number:	1315 (reissue)
Vitaphone Number:	9367
Runtime:	8 minutes, 14 seconds (reissue)
Copyright Renewed:	29 April 1968
Starring:	Sniffles
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Margaret Hill-Talbot (uncredited)
Director:	Charles Jones
Written By:	Dave Monahan
Producer:	Leon Schlesinger Henry Binder (uncredited)
Animated By:	Philip Monroe
Layout Artist:	John McGrew (uncredited)
Background Artist:	Paul Julian (uncredited)
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Carl W. Stalling

Sniffles Takes a Trip is a 1940 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.

Plot

Sniffles the mouse is visiting the country hoping to get some rest, but he gets scared of the sounds and creatures that appear in the night. He eventually runs back to the city.

Availability

Super 8

Super 8

(1986) VHS
Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Sniffles the Mouse Cartoon Festival Featuring "Sniffles Bells the Cat" (only in PAL regions)

(1989) VHS
Sniffles the Mouse Sniffles and the Bookworm

(1991) LaserDisc
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 1, Side 5: Chuck Jones

(1992) VHS
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 5: Chuck Jones

(2008) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc One (1995 dubbed version, with mixed audiotrack)

(2008) DVD
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 6, Disc 1 (same print as Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6)

(2012) DVD
Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection, Disc 1 (restored)

(2012) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection, Disc 1 (restored)

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2023)

Max (2023 - 2024)

Notes

• This cartoon is possibly a nod to Aesop's fable, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse", where two mice visit the countryside and the city, only to end up going through so many dangers while being in the city. The country mouse concludes he would rather live the countryside than the city, due to better safety, and the city mouse concludes he would rather live in the city than the countryside, as there is barely anything to do over there, and he couldn't stand being in an empty area.
  • In this cartoon, Sniffles seems to fulfill the role of the town mouse throughout the cartoon, where he moves in to the countryside for a holiday, only to end up choosing to move back to the city after experiencing countless mishaps from the countryside, with his reasoning to move back to the city at the ending being similar to that of the country mouse, which is due to better safety.
  • Coincidentally, Charles Thorson, Sniffles' character designer, originally based Sniffles' design on the country mouse from Walt Disney's Oscar-winning short "The Country Cousin", which is an animated adaptation of said Aesop's fable.
• The USA and EU Turner "dubbed version" replaces the 1938-1941 Merrie Melodies ending music rendition with the 1941-1955 ending music rendition.
• The cartoon released as a special feature on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 uses an unreleased stereo mix of its recreated 1995 m/e soundtrack (used mostly for the 1995 redubs of this short). The volume of Sniffles' dialogue has been decreased, making it hard for viewers to understand the lines spoken by the character. In addition, both the opening and (altered) ending music cues, as well as the unaltered parts of the background music, appear to sound canned for this reason.
  • Another bonus cartoon on LTGC Vol. 6 which faces a similar problem of mixed audiotracks is "Hop and Go" (1943).
• As late as 2008, a 35mm print of this short with its original titles was known to exist.

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