Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tom and Jerry, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio, Red Hot Riding Hood, the Bear That Wasn't, the House of Tomorrow, the Cat That Hated People, Who Killed Who?, the Dot and the Line, Bad Luck Blackie, Swing Shift Cinderella, List of One-Shot Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animated Cartoon Shorts, the Shooting of Dan Mcgoo, Little Rural Riding Hood, the First Bad Man, Fiddlesticks, Jerky Turkey, Swing Wedding, One Droopy Knight, Wild and Woolfy, Slap Happy Lion, Symphony in Slang, Honeyland, Bosko's Parlor Pranks, to Spring, Bottles. Excerpt: Bad Luck Blackie is a 1949 animated cartoon produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The Tex Avery -directed short was voted the fifteenth-best cartoon of all-time in a 1994 poll of one-thousand animation industry professionals, as referenced in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons . The title is a pun on Boston Blackie , a popular radio show at the time.Synopsis As the cartoon opens, a little white kitten is being mercilessly tormented by a mean bulldog. The kitten manages to escape, and while hiding for safety behind a garbage can, she is met by a bowler hat -wearing, cigar-chomping black cat, who offers to protect the kitten (his business card reads "Paths Crossed — Guaranteed Bad Luck"). The black cat demonstrates his skills by crossing the path of the rapidly approaching bulldog, who ends up knocked out by a flowerpot that falls from the sky. The black cat then leaves the scene, but not before giving the kitten a whistle, to be blown in case of emergency.The bulldog comes to, and tries multiple times to attack the kitten, but every attempt is foiled in the same way: the kitten blows the whistle, the black cat crosses the bulldog's path, and the dog is pummeled by various objects falling from the sky, including a cash register, a piano, and