Production When Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett, left the Warner Bros. studio in 1945, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, paired with Friz Freleng's Sylvester, who previously appeared with Porky Pig in Clampett's cartoon Kitty Kornered (released in 1946). The working title for the cartoon was Fat Rat and the Stupid Cat in 1946, which would've been the first true cartoon to pair Sylvester and Tweety together. Tweety was depicted living in a bird cage, which could hint his transition from a wild baby bird to a domestic canary. Production of the fourth Tweety cartoon began roughly around the same time A Gruesome Twosome (Tweety’s last cartoon directed by Clampett) was released, around June 1945, however due to Clampett leaving Warner Bros. at the time of the cartoons development, it never entered full-production as his unit was given to Arthur Davis. Friz Freleng at the same time was working on-a follow-up to his second Sylvester cartoon, Peck Up Your Troubles, featuring Sylvester in pursuit of a witty woodpecker. Freleng wanted to replace the woodpecker with Tweety; however, producer Edward Selzer objected, and Freleng threatened to quit. Selzer allowed Tweety to be used, and the resulting film went on to win Warner Bros.' first Oscar, which Selzer accepted. After Selzer's death in 1970, the Oscar was passed on to Freleng. The cartoon would also go on to become a phenomenal success, and as result, Tweety would always be paired with Sylvester from that point on in subsequent appearances, because the duo carried a high amount of star power. Sylvester, however, would appear in many shorts without Tweety, such as the Hippety Hopper series consisting of Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr. Those were directed by Robert McKimson. Sylvester also appeared alongside Speedy Gonzales and both Freleng and McKimson supervised cartoons pairing the two, and would win another Oscar for that pairing in 1955. Home media Although the cartoon was re-released into the Blue Ribbon program in 1955, the cartoon's original titles are known to exist. When re-released, like most Merrie Melodies at the time, the original ending bullet titles were kept. On the following sets, the Blue Ribbon re-release print is available. The original titles were found in 2011 and it is unknown if Warner Bros. is aware of their existence, since the Platinum Collection set released in 2012 still had the Blue Ribbon titles. VHS – The Best