Of Mice and Menace

This is a Herman and Katnip cartoon made for Famous Studios during this time. Herman the mouse brings his cousins (or nephews) to the penny arcade by sitting on the trunk of a moving car. Katnip the cat is discovered sleeping on one of the machines. Herman gets some balloons and has the cat floating away through an open roof. Katnip comes back, however, and gives chase after the mouse though Herman has a few more tricks up his sleeve...Pretty amusing cartoon with some violent gags that make Tom and Jerry gentlemen by comparison. My favorite gag is more sexually-oriented, however. It concerns the cat looking through a kinetoscope (an early moving picture machine that shows photos running through a peephole window that simulates movement) watching a hula girl dancing. It's actually Herman in disguise but Katnip doesn't care (or is too dumb to know)! LOL! While violent, it's of the most absurd kind that's depicted in this cartoon. So on that note, Of Mice and Menace is worth a look.