Notes to You

Notes to You
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Directed by	I. Freleng
Story by	Michael Maltese
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Mel Blanc
Edited by	Treg Brown
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Manuel Perez
Backgrounds by	Paul Julian
Color process	Black and White (Colored hand drawn and digitally from the 1960s and 1990s respectively)
Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	September 20, 1941 (1941-09-20)
Running time	7:14
Language	English

Notes to You is a 1941 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on September 20, 1941, and stars Porky Pig.

This cartoon was remade in 1948, as Back Alley Oproar, with Elmer Fudd in Porky's role and Sylvester as the musical cat. It was remade again in 1967 as Le Quiet Squad, a short in The Inspector series (for which Freleng served as a producer for all cartoons in the series).

Along with All This and Rabbit Stew, the film was completed and shipped on September 2, 1941.

Plot

A very sleepy Porky Pig has just gone to bed. Outside his window, a cat appears on the fence and begins singing Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville. Porky yells at the cat and throws several objects at him, finally knocking him off the fence with a vase. The cat returns, singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. Porky throws a book at him, causing the cat to yowl in pain. Porky returns to bed, but the cat throws the book back and continues the song as Porky slams the window shut. Porky's phone rings and he answers it; it's the cat, finishing the song. Furious, Porky grabs a shotgun and claims "D-uh-d-uh-darn that old cat, I'll fix him this time once and for all!" and places a saucer of milk on the porch. Waiting for the cat, Porky falls asleep. The cat appears, drinks the milk and leaves a note for the milkman. The cat then bangs loudly on the saucer, awaking Porky.

Porky then chases the cat with the shotgun and corners him. The cat sings Rock-a-Bye Baby, which puts Porky to sleep again. The cat then quietly carries Porky to his bed, gingerly tucks him in, kisses him goodnight and tiptoes away; a few seconds later, Porky is startled as the cat conducts Frat by John F. Barth, playing loudly on the radio. As Porky angrily approaches, the cat then returns to the fence outside and begins singing The Umbrella Man, an American hit recorded in 1938 by Kay Kyser's dance orchestra. Porky closes the window, but the cat reopens the door and sings Jeepers Creepers. Porky chases him out again, only for the cat to slam the door open into Porky, giving him two black eyes. Back on the fence, the cat sings Make Love With a Guitar. Porky grabs his gun and shoots the cat, who manages to gasp out a chorus of Aloha 'Oe, and dies. As Porky feels remorse over the cat's death, he suddenly hears the sextet from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor being sung by the cat's ghostly nine lives on the fence.

As the picture irises out, the sound of shattering glass is heard.

Home media

This cartoon has been presented in its 1968 colorized form on many public domain video compilations, such as the 2004 Digiview Entertainment DVD release of Porky's Café (where its image was grayscaled to look more like the original version).

It was released in its original black and white form in 1999 on a Columbia House Looney Tunes Collector's Edition VHS Tape entitled Musical Masterpieces. The original black-and-white print, fully remastered and uncut, was included on the Porky Pig 101 DVD officially released by Warner Archive on September 19, 2017.

External links

• Notes to You at IMDb
• Notes to You in black-and-white on YouTube
• Notes to You colorized on Dailymotion