![]() ![]() The sound of police sirens breaks up the party, and the cats scatter. ![]() Mehitabel admits that she's had her ups and downs, but she's still game a plucky puss is she. The first episode sets the scene in Shinbone Alley, where Mehitabel and her feline friends are throwing a party, dancing among the trashcans and cardboard cartons, singing about their freewheeling lifestyle. What is left in the newsman's typewriter each morning is the saga of the sensitive Archy and his sensual friend, Mehitabel, the disreputable alley cat. Archy addresses him as "boss" and the voiceover journalist, with respect and appreciation, encourages his little correspondent to leave samples of his literary output (in exchange for a few apple peelings left in the wastepaper basket) in the free verse tales that the tiny insect "hops out" on the typewriter keys - all in lower case, mind you, since Archy or "archy" finds it impossible to manipulate the cap and the letter keys simultaneously. ![]() (Surely, somewhere in the Warner Brothers' archives there's a Busby Berkeley sequence we can consult for reference.)Īrchy and the newspaperman exchange notes. The voiceover describes the place in the first song, and we see little Archy dancing from key to key on the enormous typewriter keyboard. as though we were dropped into a newspaper office the size of Mount Rushmore. The desk, the chair, the telephone, the typewriter are enormous. as seen through the eyes of the somewhat vertically challenged "archy," the rather shy and sensitive cockroach. And several ladybugs thrown in for good measure. And the cast? Cats! An invisible newsman-narrator. It's here and now or there and then, but definitely the wrong side of the tracks in a big town. ![]()
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