For Scent-imental Reasons

For Scent-imental Reasons
The title card of For Scent-imental Reasons
Directed byCharles M. Jones[1]
Story byMichael Maltese
Produced byEdward Selzer
(uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Bea Benaderet
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byBen Washam
Ken Harris
Phil Monroe
Lloyd Vaughan
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byPeter Alvarado
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • November 12, 1949 (1949-11-12)
Running time
6:55
LanguageEnglish

For Scent-imental Reasons is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.[2] The short was released on November 12, 1949, and featured the debut of Penelope Pussycat[3] (who is unnamed in this cartoon).

It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1949 and was the first Chuck Jones-directed cartoon and the second short produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons to win this award (after Tweetie Pie won in 1947).

  1. ^ "For Scent-imental Reasons". BCDB.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 204. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 117. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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