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Here Today, Gone Tamale

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Here Today, Gone Tamale
Directed byFriz Freleng
Story byMichael Maltese[1]
Produced byJohn W. Burton (uncredited)
Starring
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Music byMilt Franklyn
Animation by
Layouts byHawley Pratt
Backgrounds byTom O'Loughlin
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 29, 1959 (1959-08-29)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Here Today, Gone Tamale is a 1959 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short, directed by Friz Freleng.[3] The short was released on August 29, 1959, and stars Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester.[4]

Plot

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At a Mexican shipping port all the mice are starving to death. Suddenly a ship arrives from Switzerland with a cargo filled with cheese docks. They smell the cheese and race toward the ship, only to be chased away by Sylvester, who has been hired to guard all the cheese.

The mice suggest that the only mouse to get by Sylvester is Speedy Gonzales. He is called to help get the cheese to the mice. Sylvester challenges Speedy to get by, which he does easily. Speedy goes back and forth to deliver the cheese to the mice. All attempts to stop Speedy (from netting him to using a guillotine) fail. At one point Speedy traps Sylvester in a storage locker which has stacks of malodorous limburger.

The final shot shows the mice happy with all their food as they dance in celebration. Sylvester sees this and declares "well, if you can't beat them, join them I always say". He wears mouse ears and dances with the mice. Speedy sees this and claims that the cat has "gone loco in the cabeza". Speedy joins in the dancing as well, as the cartoon ends.

References

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  1. ^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 144. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
  2. ^ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. pp. 9o. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
  3. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 319. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 137. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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