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''Magic Mummy'' is a loose adaptation of ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'', a popular novel which cultural relevance got another notch on its belt as recently as the 1931 movie adaptation ''Svengali''. On top of that, ''Magic Mummy'' taps into [[MummyMedia mummy fiction]], a genre that in 1932 got a major boost with the release of ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]''.
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''Magic Mummy'' is a loose adaptation of ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'', a popular novel which cultural relevance got another notch on its belt as recently as the 1931 movie adaptation ''Svengali''.''Film/{{Svengali}}''. On top of that, ''Magic Mummy'' taps into [[MummyMedia mummy fiction]], a genre that in 1932 got a major boost with the release of ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]''.
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''Magic Mummy'' is the 20th ''Tom & Jerry'' short by Creator/VanBeurenStudios to hit theaters. It came out on February 7, 1933, being preceded by ''Tight Rope Tricks'' and followed-up by ''Panicky Pup''. Of the 26 shorts total, ''Magic Mummy'' is the only horror-themed one to be produced after the series starter ''Wot a Night'' and it also is the last short John Foster, the main writer, contributed to. As per the credits, the script and direction are by John Foster and George Vernon Stallings, while the score is the work of Gene Rodemich. The animation is uncredited but thought to be by George Vernon Stallings, Creator/FrankTashlin, and Creator/JimTyer.
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''Magic Mummy'' is the 20th ''Tom & Jerry'' short by Creator/VanBeurenStudios to hit theaters. It came out on February 7, 1933, being preceded by ''Tight Rope Tricks'' and followed-up by ''Panicky Pup''. Of the 26 shorts total, ''Magic Mummy'' is the only horror-themed one to be produced after the series starter ''Wot a Night'' and it also is the last short John Foster, the main writer, contributed to.to, as he was fired from Van Beuren Studios shortly afterward. As per the credits, the script and direction are by John Foster and George Vernon Stallings, while the score is the work of Gene Rodemich. The animation is uncredited but thought to be by George Vernon Stallings, Creator/FrankTashlin, and Creator/JimTyer.
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: The ghoulish musician carries the mummy in her sarcophagus into a dark corner of the lair to escape Tom and Jerry. They, however, follow and a fight breaks out during which only three sets of eyes are visible. Two sets move over further away into the dark, while the third set strikes a match, revealing itself to be Jerry who is left with the sarcophagus. He takes it with him to the police station, but upon opening the sarcophagus there finds not the mummy inside but Tom. This means the fight in the dark wasn't between the ghoulish musician, Tom, and Jerry, but between the ghoulish musician, the mummy, and Jerry.
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* {{Mummy}}: The Trilby-like mummy of ''Magic Mummy'' is the revived corpse of presumably a singer of fame, because it appears the ghoulish musician had been stealing mummies specifically in search of her. She gets unwrapped by him and spends the rest of the short looking no less alive than a human.
* SentientVehicle: When Tom and Jerry are notified about the latest mummy heist, radio patrol car 44 stops being a normal car and starts taking orders. For a bit, it even doubles as the Tom's and Jerry's sniffer dog.
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* WickedCultured: For all his ruthlessness, hostility, and impressive magic, the ghoulish musician's only interest seems to be to have the mummy as his musical partner. He himself is a solid singer and piano player and he doesn't do badly as a conductor either.
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* TheSvengali: The ghoulish musician is an adaptation of Svengali with the mummy serving as his Trilby. He attains her by stealing her from a museum and forces her to sing with him in front of an audience of skeletons by means of mesmerism. It is likely the ghoulish musician loses his control when he and she end up fighting each other in a dark portion of the lair while he is under the impression he's fighting off the policemen.
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->''"Car Number 44, stand by! Car Number 44, stand by! Another mummy has been stolen from the museum. Proceed at once!"''
-->--'''Police captain'''
''Magic Mummy'' is the 20th ''Tom & Jerry'' short by Creator/VanBeurenStudios to hit theaters. It came out on February 7, 1933, being preceded by ''Tight Rope Tricks'' and followed-up by ''Panicky Pup''. Of the 26 shorts total, ''Magic Mummy'' is the only horror-themed one to be produced after the series starter ''Wot a Night'' and it also is the last short John Foster, the main writer, contributed to. As per the credits, the script and direction are by John Foster and George Vernon Stallings, while the score is the work of Gene Rodemich. The animation is uncredited but thought to be by George Vernon Stallings, Creator/FrankTashlin, and Creator/JimTyer.
''Magic Mummy'' is a loose adaptation of ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'', a popular novel which cultural relevance got another notch on its belt as recently as the 1931 movie adaptation ''Svengali''. On top of that, ''Magic Mummy'' taps into [[MummyMedia mummy fiction]], a genre that in 1932 got a major boost with the release of ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]''.
Tom and Jerry are cops out on patrol in radio patrol car 44. It's a quiet night, so like the rest of the police department and prisoners they enjoy a performance of "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon, and Me" by two of their colleagues. The party is ended when the police captain gets a call that another mummy is in the process of being stolen. Tom and Jerry are sent out to apprehend the thief and track him to a secret lair beneath a cemetery. They witness the thief, a ghoulish musician, unwrap the mummy and force her to sing to his piano play at a theatre where the audience consists of the cemetery's skeletons. Tom and Jerry break up the performance to retrieve the mummy, but when the ensuing fight moves into the dark corners of the lair, Jerry has a chance to grab the sarcophagus and return to the station without Tom, which'd make him the big hero. And so he is received at the police station until he deigns to open the sarcophagus and not the mummy is inside, but an unconscious Tom.
The voice of the mummy reminds of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, and that is because she was voiced by Margie Hines, Betty's original voice actress. The mummy sings "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)", a 1932 song that in 1935 was also sung by Betty Boop as voiced by Mae Questel in ''Judge for a Day''.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: When the ghoulish musician unwraps the mummy, he thrice orders her to sing, growing aggressive about her silence until she finally obeys. They take the stage for a performance thereafter and again the ghoulish musician orders the mummy to sing. This time the mummy follows up by responding with "Keep you spirits high", the first line of "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)", which reveals a second layer to the ghoulish musician's order to sing as also being an instruction to specifically sing "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)" in a duet with him.
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* DemBones: All of the audience in the theatre are the walking and talking skeletons of the people buried at the cemetery. The ghoulish musician may or may not be a living skeleton himself. His legs are mere bones and his face is skull-like, but he has a nose, hair, and fleshy hands. Tom and Jerry, at least, don't realize his undead nature until they lift his robe.
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* HandRubbing: The ghoulish musician rubs his hands when he unwraps the mummy and he sees that, after several earlier thefts of mummies, he finally has stolen the right one.
* HeroVsVillainDuet: The Svengali-like ghoulish musician and the Trilby-like mummy sing "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)" together. At first, the ghoulish musician sings the "Sing" part as an order, which the mummy answers with the rest of the lyrics. But as the music gets going, they both sing all of the lyrics.
* HighClassGlass: One of the skeletons in the audience is a lady of status, going by her loge seating, her companion, and of course her lorgnette.
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* WalkLikeAnEgyptian: The mummy dances by always facing the audience and moving sideways, making crooked arm, hip, and leg motions reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian murals.
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->''"Car Number 44, stand by! Car Number 44, stand by! Another mummy has been stolen from the museum. Proceed at once!"''
-->--'''Police captain'''
''Magic Mummy'' is the 20th ''Tom & Jerry'' short by Creator/VanBeurenStudios to hit theaters. It came out on February 7, 1933, being preceded by ''Tight Rope Tricks'' and followed-up by ''Panicky Pup''. Of the 26 shorts total, ''Magic Mummy'' is the only horror-themed one to be produced after the series starter ''Wot a Night'' and it also is the last short John Foster, the main writer, contributed to. As per the credits, the script and direction are by John Foster and George Vernon Stallings, while the score is the work of Gene Rodemich. The animation is uncredited but thought to be by George Vernon Stallings, Creator/FrankTashlin, and Creator/JimTyer.
''Magic Mummy'' is a loose adaptation of ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'', a popular novel which cultural relevance got another notch on its belt as recently as the 1931 movie adaptation ''Svengali''. On top of that, ''Magic Mummy'' taps into [[MummyMedia mummy fiction]], a genre that in 1932 got a major boost with the release of ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]''.
Tom and Jerry are cops out on patrol in radio patrol car 44. It's a quiet night, so like the rest of the police department and prisoners they enjoy a performance of "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon, and Me" by two of their colleagues. The party is ended when the police captain gets a call that another mummy is in the process of being stolen. Tom and Jerry are sent out to apprehend the thief and track him to a secret lair beneath a cemetery. They witness the thief, a ghoulish musician, unwrap the mummy and force her to sing to his piano play at a theatre where the audience consists of the cemetery's skeletons. Tom and Jerry break up the performance to retrieve the mummy, but when the ensuing fight moves into the dark corners of the lair, Jerry has a chance to grab the sarcophagus and return to the station without Tom, which'd make him the big hero. And so he is received at the police station until he deigns to open the sarcophagus and not the mummy is inside, but an unconscious Tom.
The voice of the mummy reminds of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, and that is because she was voiced by Margie Hines, Betty's original voice actress. The mummy sings "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)", a 1932 song that in 1935 was also sung by Betty Boop as voiced by Mae Questel in ''Judge for a Day''.
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!! Tropes:
* AdaptationalContextChange: When the ghoulish musician unwraps the mummy, he thrice orders her to sing, growing aggressive about her silence until she finally obeys. They take the stage for a performance thereafter and again the ghoulish musician orders the mummy to sing. This time the mummy follows up by responding with "Keep you spirits high", the first line of "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)", which reveals a second layer to the ghoulish musician's order to sing as also being an instruction to specifically sing "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)" in a duet with him.
%%* CreepyCemetery:
* DemBones: All of the audience in the theatre are the walking and talking skeletons of the people buried at the cemetery. The ghoulish musician may or may not be a living skeleton himself. His legs are mere bones and his face is skull-like, but he has a nose, hair, and fleshy hands. Tom and Jerry, at least, don't realize his undead nature until they lift his robe.
%%* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes:
* HandRubbing: The ghoulish musician rubs his hands when he unwraps the mummy and he sees that, after several earlier thefts of mummies, he finally has stolen the right one.
* HeroVsVillainDuet: The Svengali-like ghoulish musician and the Trilby-like mummy sing "Sing (It's Good For Ya!)" together. At first, the ghoulish musician sings the "Sing" part as an order, which the mummy answers with the rest of the lyrics. But as the music gets going, they both sing all of the lyrics.
* HighClassGlass: One of the skeletons in the audience is a lady of status, going by her loge seating, her companion, and of course her lorgnette.
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%%* SentientVehicle:
%%* SkeletalMusician:
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* WalkLikeAnEgyptian: The mummy dances by always facing the audience and moving sideways, making crooked arm, hip, and leg motions reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian murals.
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