Big Mouse-Take

Big Mouse-Take
And you'd think it would be a cat chasing a mouse... boy were we lied to...
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Distributor	Columbia Pictures
Release date	June 17, 1965
Starring	Daws Butler Jean Vander Pyl Doug Young
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Screenplay by	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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Big Mouse-Take is the forty-eighth and final overall animated theatrical short of the Loopy De Loop series. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures on June 17, 1965. It was written by Michael Maltese and was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Loopy agrees to help in getting rid of Bigelow Mouse, or otherwise Chaterly's owner will throw Chaterly out of the house for not doing his job as a cat.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Woman	Jean Vander Pyl
Bigelow Mouse	Doug Young
Chaterly	Doug Young
Loopy De Loop	Daws Butler
Bigelow's Family	Doug Young

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • House

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Crew credits

• Story sketch: Alex Lovy and Charles A. Nichols
• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animation: Carlo Vinci and Hugh Fraser
• Layout: Bill Perez
• Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas
• Film editor: Donald A. Douglas
• Eastman color by: Pathé

Behind the scenes

• Michael Maltese is credited as Mike Maltese.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • September 9, 2014: Warner Archive Collection releases Loopy De Loop: The Complete Collection on DVD.