The Dingles
''The Dingles'' is a 1988 Canadian animated family short film directed by Les Drew. Summary Based on a book by Helen Levchuk about a caring, grandmotherly lady and her three cats whose iydlic lives were interrupted by a big windstorm. See also *''The Cat Came Back "The Cat Came Back" is a comic song written by Harry S. Miller in Christmas 1893. It has since entered the folk tradition and been recorded under variations of the title—"But the Cat Came Back", "And the Cat Came Back", etc. It is also a po ...'' - the 1988 Oscar-nominated NFB film similar in content. References External links * * * NFB {{DEFAULTSORT:Dingles, The 1988 animated films Animated films about cats National Film Board of Canada animated short films 1988 films 1980s Canadian films ...
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The Cat Came Back (1988 Film)
''The Cat Came Back'' is a 1988 Canadian animated short film by Cordell Barker, produced by fellow award-winning animator Richard Condie in Winnipeg for the National Film Board of Canada. It is based on the children's song "The Cat Came Back" by Harry S. Miller. It was in theaters with Touchstone's ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. In May 2017, the NFB and Canadian publisher Firefly Books adapted the film as a children's book. Plot The film portrays the increasingly desperate efforts of the elderly Mr. Johnson to rid himself of a small yet extremely troublesome yellow cat that will not leave his home. He first tries to leave the cat in the woods only to get lost himself. An attempt to drown it at sea ends in him nearly drowning. He then tries to send the cat away in a hot air balloon, but winds up getting dragged into the sky himself when he cuts the balloon free. For his fourth attempt, Mr. Johnson tries to take it away on a pump trolley, running over many damsels in distress and ...
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