Nuts and Volts

Nuts and Volts
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	April 25, 1964
Run time	6:22
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie
Music composed by	Bill Lava
Story by	John Dunn
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Bob Matz Art Leonardi Lee Halpern
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Nuts and Volts is the four hundred and thirty-eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 25, 1964. It was written by John Dunn, produced by David H. DePatie, and directed by Friz Freleng.

When Sylvester gets tired of catching Speedy, he decides to use some hi-technical tactics, such as a security system and a robot, to catch the rodent.

Memorable Quotes

Speedy: Hey, I dig these electrical tonics-type stuff.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Speedy Gonzales	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc

Organizations

• Acme

Locations

• Earth
  • Mexico
    • Villa-like house

Objects

• Automation advertisement paper
• Acme Electric Eye and Security System
• Acme Mouse Control Machine
• Acme Mouse Disposal Robot (Model 3RXL)
• Control panel with sonic viewer
• Medic robot
• Dynamite
• Club
• Robot dog

Music

The music was composed by Bill Lava.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 25, 1964 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on "nuts and bolts."
• Some small animations from Mexican Boarders is reused for this short.
• The robot from Robot Rabbit is reused for this short, including the animation of the robot losing its undercap, with the exception of Sylvester's head being stuck in the robot.
• This is the final Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, before the closure of Warner Bros. Cartoons.

Errors

• On the mouse disposal instruction diagram, the assemblers to connect wires "X" and "W" to battery cable. However, when Sylvester reads it, he says to "connect wire 'LX' and 'YX' to battery cable" instead.
• While this was a Looney Tunes cartoon, it uses the Merrie Melodies outro sequence instead. This is probably because the outro of this cartoon got mixed up with the outro sequence from the 1963 Merrie Melodies short, Chili Weather.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 14, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 on DVD.