are a little too much for Leon Schlesinger's cat and like so many of the present-day jitterbugs, he's sent "out of this world." When he gets there, however, he's happy to return to earth's solid soil for the weird land of phantasy is not all it's cracked up to be. Music and laughs are combined in a pleasant Technicolor cartoon." Author and music critic Will Friedwald writes, "Tin Pan Alley Cats is an animated equivalent to the live-action features Stormy Weather (1943) and Cabin in the Sky (1943), which represented both the climax and the conclusion of the all-black Hollywood musical spectacular... The only thing that's the matter is that Tin Pan Alley Cats represents a near last stand for both black characters and extended musical numbers in the Hollywood cartoon." Home media Following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, United Artists withheld Tin Pan Alley Cats, along with the rest of the "Censored Eleven", from American television in 1968. Turner Entertainment (today owned by AT&T's WarnerMedia) acquired the rights to these cartoons in 1986, and has continued to withhold it from release. Of the cartoons included in the Censored Eleven, animation historians and film scholars are quickest to defend the two directed by Bob Clampett: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs and Tin Pan Alley Cats. The former, a jazz-based parody of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is frequently included on lists of the greatest cartoons ever made, while the latter is a hot jazz re-interpretation of Clampett's short Porky in Wackyland (1938). Author Michelle Klein-Hass wrote the following: Bootleg copies have surfaced on videotape and DVD. Warner Home Video has issued restored clips of the film as a part of a supplementary documentary on Bob Clampett on disc three of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD collector's set. In October 2010, it was announced that a complete version will be officially released, along with the rest of the "Censored 11", on DVD through the Warner Archives collection. However, a decade later, none of the "Censored 11" have been officially released. References External links Tin Pan Alley Cats on the Internet Archive September in the Rain (Blue Ribbon) on the Internet Archive 1943 films 1943 animated films 1943 short films 1940s animated short films Censored Eleven Films directed by Bob Clampett Merrie Melodies short films Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films Animated films