A Mouse Divided

A Mouse Divided
Directed byI. Freleng
Story byWarren Foster[1]
Produced byEdward Selzer
John W. Burton[2]
StarringMel Blanc
Bea Benaderet[2]
Edited byTreg Brown[2]
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byArthur Davis
Manuel Perez
Virgil Ross
Ken Champin
Layouts byHawley Pratt
Backgrounds byIrv Wyner
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • January 31, 1953 (1953-01-31) (USA)
Running time
6:30[2]
LanguageEnglish

A Mouse Divided is a 1953 Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng.[3] The short was released on January 31, 1953, and stars Sylvester.[4] The title is a pun on Lincoln's House Divided Speech.

In the film, Sylvester and his wife receive their first son from a drunken stork, and this son is a mouse. Sylvester struggles between his desire to eat the mouse and his protective feelings about his son.

  1. ^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 114. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
  2. ^ a b c d Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  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. 244. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 140–142. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.