Like Egyptian Melodies, The Cat’s Out (also known as The Cat’s Nightmare) is a series of humorous and clever vignettes, perfectly synchronized to a fantastic score, composed and compiled by the great Frank Churchill. In this short, the hero/victim is a cat, put out for the night, who chases a bird and falls off a roof. He hits the ground and is knocked out (perhaps that’s what’s meant by the title?). In his nightmare, he encounters a giant version of the bird, owls, bats, spiders, and, in what might be the most clever gag of the short, a pair of hollow trees.

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