The Cat Came Back

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Movie
Original title The Cat Came Back
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Cordell Barker
script Cordell Barker
production Cordell Barker
Richard Condie
for National Film Board of Canada
music John McCulloch

The Cat Came Back is a Canadian animated short film directed by Cordell Barker in 1988. It is based on the children's song of the same name.

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One day when the widowed Mr. Johnson plays the tuba again, he suddenly finds a little yellow kitten in front of his house. He enthusiastically takes it into his house and tries to please it with the toy rattle that he loved himself as a child. The cat knocks the rattle out of his hand and Johnson, offended, puts the cat in front of the door. However , it gets back inside through the letter slot . Johnson now tries in various ways to get rid of the cat - he takes it deep into the forest, tries to drown it in the sea and shoot it into the sky in a hot air balloon, but he always ends up injured himself. When he comes home, the cat is already there and is devastating his four walls more and more. In the end, Johnson blows up his house, throwing himself up in the air and dying. As an angel he returns to the cat and mocks her because she could no longer follow him. His corpse, however, lands exactly on the cat, which now receives a cat angel for each of its nine lives. All nine are now rushing after the fleeing Johnson ghost.

Awards

The Cat Came Back has received numerous international awards, including a Genie for Best Animated Short Film in 1989 and a grand prize at the World Animation Celebration.

The film was in 1989 for an Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film nomination," but could not against Tin Toy prevail.

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