Tags: Cartoon, Hollywood Cartoon.
Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 animated short subject directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros.’ Merrie Melodies series. A follow-up to Clampett’s successful Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs released earlier in 1943 Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses upon contemporary themes of African-American culture jazz music and World War II and features a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller as an anthropomorphic cat.