Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.
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Margaret Hill-Talbot
- Sniffles
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- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaPorky Pig makes a cameo appearance, of a sort. Sniffles the Mouse hides among a set of squeaky dolls that are all replicas of Porky Pig.
- GoofsWhen Sniffles first hides with the Porky Pig squeaky toys, there are ten squeaky toys to Sniffles' right, and two to his left. When the view shifts to show Sniffles from behind the cat (Bookworm's point of view when he is on the train tracks) there are three squeaky toys to Sniffles' left (assuming Sniffles is hidden from view by the cat). When Bookworm's point of view changes to above (from the cat's head), there are only five squeaky toys to Sniffles' right, and two to his left. When the view shifts back to floor-level, there are again ten squeaky toys to Sniffles' right and two to his left.
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Featured review
Brilliant concept and execution
This cartoon has stuck with me all my life. I've even drawn upon it as a classroom teacher. The essential brilliance is the contrast between the two menaces. As Sniffles and the bookworm wander about the toy store, they are stalked by the store's cat. But when they turn a corner, they are threatened by the mechanical duck. The cat is rational: it wants to kill and eat. It's dangerous, but it has a motive, and thus there's a certain predictability to it that can be used to evade or defeat it. The mechanical duck, on the other hand, is entirely irrational, therefore unpredictable. In "real life" it would be the familiar child's pull toy. But Jones portrays it from a low angle, so that it looks huge. I always found it very scary.
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- mark_heumann
- Jul 10, 2014
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- La jugarreta de los Juguetes
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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