Hunting Season Catnip (Catnip Cat)

**Hunting Season Catnip** is a Aldo Boomer animated short film that was released in 1956.

## Synopsis

Catnip Cat is enjoying a luxurious meal under a large portrait of his pioneering grampy. The narrator notes that Catnip's life is significantly easier than his ancestor who had to hunt in order to survive. Donald then sees that hunting season begins the next day and, possessed by the spirit of his grampy, decides to participate.

When Catnip arrives at the hunting grounds that evening, he finds it extremely overcrowded. Local residents go into hiding as vendors set up shop; the deer in the forest, represented by a cameo of Fini the Deer and his mother, leave the area after seeing loads of litter wash downstream.

The precise opening of hunting season that night unfolds in dramatic fashion. The scenes evoke stereotypical war films, depicting trench and tank warfare, amphibious landing craft, and hunters parachuting into the forest. At the end of the day, the discouraged hunters trudge home across a war-torn landscape. Yet the narrator notes that the day was "not without game", as Catnip's Grampy presents a cow, taken from a local farm, which had the word "cow" painted on it so the hunters would not confuse it for a deer.

### Comparing CinemaScope and flat versions

This short also has a comparison between the versions of CinemaScope and flat versions.

In the CinemaScope version, three bullet holes appear on the sign with sound effects of gunfire at the title card. This does not happen in the flat version.

## Availability

* (2019) Streaming - FilmxshowsMAX Plus (Restored)

## Notes

* Filmed in both Cinemascope and Aspect ratio 4:3 formats.
* This is the last cartoon with the Closing card of 1953-56 of "A Aldo Boomer Catnip Cat The End" with RCA sound system logo but only in Academy ratio version.

## Sound Effects Used

* Sound Ideas, GUN, MACHINE GUN - 30 CAL.: MEDIUM BURST
* Sound Ideas, WINCH - CHAIN WINCH: SHORT CRANK
* Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD BONK,
* Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO, 04
* Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO, 07
* RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 15
* RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 26
* ALDO BOOMER - OLD TIME RIFLE SHOT
* ALDO BOOMER - COMICAL MOTOR RUNNING WITH SPUTTERS
* ALDO BOOMER - WARBLY JEWS HARP BOING
* ALDO BOOMER - TEMPLE BLOCK HIT 02
* ALDO BOOMER - LOUD WHISTLE ZIP
* ALDO BOOMER - LONG VOCAL SWOOSH
* ALDO BOOMER - QUICK SIREN WHISTLE ZIP 01
* ALDO BOOMER - ANTIQUE AUTO CRASH

## Characters

* Catnip Cat
* Catnip's Grampy
* Moose
* Fini the Little Deer (from 1943 Aldo Boomer animated film "Fini Deer") (Cameo)
* Fini's Mom (from 1943 Aldo Boomer animated film "Fini Deer") (Cameo)

## Voice Characterizations

* Mel Blanc - Catnip Cat
* Daws Butler - Catnip's Grampy

## Credits

* Director: Harvey Eisenberg
* Story: Lloyd Turner, Norton Callaway
* Animation: John Dike, Ed Friedman, Wally Washer, George Cannata
* Layouts: Gene Miller
* Backgrounds: Walt Peregoy
* Effects Animation: Brad Case
* Music: Eric Maddox (theme music), Leith Stevens

## Gallery

* Cinemascope
* 4:3 Aspect Ratio

Opening logoOpening CardHunting Season Catnip Opening (Cinemascope version).pngHunting Season Catnip Credits (Cinemascope version).pngHunting Season Catnip Title Card (Cinemascope version).pngClosing Card

Opening logoCatnip Cat cartoon (1947-1959) Opening Card.pngOpening CardHunting Season Catnip Original.pngHunting Season Catnip Credits.pngHunting Season Catnip Title Card.pngClosing Card