For kids about kids - 10 cartoons about kittens
All the greats started somewhere.
Tom, Garfield, Puss in Boots, Matroskin, Leopold, Simon's cat were once kittens.
Viewers know them as adults, accomplished “actors.” Maybe someday filmmakers will demonstrate the path to becoming everyone's favorites.
In the meantime, if you really want to watch a movie about kittens, you can choose one of ten wonderful cartoons featuring furry little ones. And it’s better to watch them all at once , because each of them is worthy of attention.
Soviet animators have created many worthy works in which young cats and cats appear. Here are some of them.
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Cartoons about cats and cats. The cat is the most popular pet and, along with dogs, ranks first in terms of cartoon images.
The article contains all Soviet cartoons about cats. From the most popular to the less recognizable.
All cartoons about cats and cats:
1. Three from Prostokvashino.
Cat Matroskin.
Iron first place goes to a cat with the surname Matroskin.
2. All episodes about Leopold the Cat.
Leopold the cat and his classic image.
Everyone knows Leopold the Cat. But not everyone knows that from the first to the eleventh episode his image changed a little.
3. Puss in Boots.
Puss in Boots.
The miller's youngest son inherits a cat. The cat turned out to be very resourceful, making his owner an enviable groom.
4. Cat's house.
Cat house.
The cat's house burned down. And she comes to her nephews and kittens, whom she previously refused hospitality.
5. The cat who walked by himself.
A cat who walked by himself.
The cat played with the child and knew how to catch mice. For these abilities, the woman allowed him to come whenever he wanted.
6. Return of the Prodigal Parrot.
According to the books, the cat's name is Vasily.
This is, of course, not a cartoon about cats, but everyone knows the image of this cat. A fat and clumsy cat from the cartoons about the parrot Kesha. Likes to listen to the player and chew gum. I remember his phrases: “This is bubolgum.” They feed us well here too.
7. A kitten named Woof.
Old yard cat and kitten Woof.
Kitten Woof and his friend puppy Sharik get into various troubles. The cartoon consists of five episodes.
8. The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Cat Basilio.
A fraudster pretending to be blind. Basilio the cat is a negative character, but nevertheless popular.
9. Kitten from Lizyukov Street.
Kitten Vasily.
A funny cartoon about the transformation of Vasya's kitten into a hippopotamus and back.
10. Cat Bayun and Cheshire Cat.
Cat Bayun from the cartoon "Ivashka from the Palace of Pioneers."
Here I would like to mention fairy-tale cats:
– Cat Scientist - from the poem by A.S. Pushkin "Ruslan and Lyudmila".
– Cat Bayun - from Russian fairy tales.
– Cheshire cat - “Alice in Wonderland.”
Below are lesser-known cartoons about cats:
11. Scarecrow-Meow.
Kitty.
A little kitten wants to sing and have fun, but no one wants to support him.
12. Cat and clown.
Magic cat.
The old clown takes in the cat. Grumpy cat can transform into different objects.
13. Little imp with a fluffy tail.
Cat with a kitten.
Two dogs kidnap a kitten to exchange it for lamb meat. The kitten turned out to be very hyperactive, for which the dogs paid.
14. Fishing cat.
The cat is fishing.
The cat wanted to catch fish, but the Fox, Wolf and Bear interfered with him.
15. Kot Kotofeevich.
Kot Kotofeevich.
The cat grew old and his owners no longer needed him. In the forest, the Cat meets the fox Lizaveta Ivanovna and finds a new home.
16. The cat who could sing.
The cat is watching the cat.
The cat loves to sing songs and falls in love with the cat. But the cat does not pay attention to him, preferring to watch TV. On TV they show the program “Good night, kids!” and the cartoon “Well, wait a minute!”
17. How the cat and dog washed the floor.
A cat and a dog are washing the floor.
Someone left dirty footprints on the floor. The cat and the dog decided to wash the floor, but they don’t know how to do it.
18. Poor people.
Cat and cook.
The cat, chasing a mouse, destroys the entire kitchen. Why cooks get fired.
The cartoon has a sequel, “At my own request.”
19. That's a tiger!
A kitten that looks like a tiger.
The kitten, thinking that he is a tiger, tries to scare everyone. But it only manages to scare the mouse.
20. Cat and Co.
Lazy cat.
The cat doesn't want to catch mice because he is kind and wants to be friends with them. The cat's owner is very unhappy. Then the cat and mice play a prank on the grandmother, arranging their own funeral.
There is also a cartoon “How mice buried a cat.”
Cats worth mentioning:
"Naughty Kitten"
The 11-minute film was released in 1953.
A little kitten played around in the house and turned everything upside down. The owner sent him outside, and the furry pet ran into the forest. There he stirred up all the little animals.
The little hare collected medicinal chamomile for his mother, the little squirrel watched his brothers, the hedgehog carried mushrooms for lunch, but the kitten persuaded them all to quit their boring chores and go for a walk .
The new friends wandered around until late in the evening and ended up almost getting into trouble. Fortunately, the Hare came to their rescue and sent the mischief-makers home. Since then the kitten has become very obedient .
When creating it, the “fluffy” effect was used. This is the name of the special shooting, thanks to which the characters in the film look so alive that you immediately want to stroke them.
Despite the frank edification, the tape is very sweet, kind and cheerful, so the kids liked it.
Watch this cartoon right now:
Naughty kitten
List of films about horses ->
"Pie"
The year of release of the 10-minute film is 1956.
The lazy kitten Murzik and his friend, the equally lazy puppy Sharik, lived not far from the hardworking Hen.
Together with the chickens, she worked all day in the field and grew wheat. Friends did not understand why they needed to tinker in the ground and do boring things when they could walk, play and have fun.
The kitten and puppy didn’t even want to help the birds when they asked. They said they were sick and continued to parasitize.
But he who doesn’t work doesn’t eat . Therefore, when the chicken and the children made pies, Murzik and Sharik got nothing.
Watch the cartoon "Pie":
Pie
“How a house was built for a kitten”
The 11-minute film was first shown in 1963.
A charming black and white kitten lived in an old house with his owners. But the building had to be demolished, and people left, leaving their pet in its original place.
The kid wandered around, lonely and lost, until he met a kind bulldozer . He promised the animal that a new big house would soon be built, where good people would surely live. And so it happened.
When the high-rise building was erected, the kitten first drove the mice out of there, then became friends with the sparrows, and then found a real family.
The film's credits do not list the voice actors, but in the voice of the bulldozer one cannot help but recognize the intonation of Anatoly Papanov.
Sergei Tseits speaks for the sparrow, and Margarita Korabelnikova voiced the kitten and its new owner, a girl.
Watch "without leaving the cash register":
How a kitten's house was built
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Return of the cat
- Rating 7.8 / 7.2 (Kinopoisk/IMDb)
- Genre Anime, Cartoon, Fantasy, Adventure, Family
- Country Japan
- Starring Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda
- Directed by Hiroyuki Morita
- Duration 75 min. / 01:15
- Mitsubishi Corportaion Studio
- Premiere date: July 19, 2002
- Screenplay by Aoi Hiragi, Reiko Yoshida
A full-length anime produced by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki. This time, the great master took on the story of the girl Haru, who ended up in the kingdom of cats. It was not by chance that she ended up like Chihiro with ghosts - Haru went to the cats so that they would stop showering her with gifts. One day, a girl saved a cat prince from under the wheels of a truck, and now the cat office returns Haru’s debt for the heir’s life (by the way, in the original the title sounds more like “The Cat Returns the Debt,” and the Russian localization is just a typical Russian localization). Just being nice for cats is not the same as being nice for people. Well, someone, of course, might enjoy finding a gift box of mice or a garden full of catnip in a school locker. But for Haru, like for many people, gifts from cats were more of a problem. And after the aperitifs and treats, the cat office promised the girl the main reward - turning into a cat and getting married to the cat prince. Haru definitely doesn’t need such gifts, and the brave schoolgirl herself goes to the cat world to find the cat Baron, who should help her.
Trailer:
"Desperate cat Vaska"
The 10-minute animated film premiered in 1985.
The ordinary-looking kitten Vaska is a true romantic and pioneer.
One day he was calmly washing his face on a rug outside an apartment on the top floor. who came to repair television antennas opened the hatch leading to the roof. The animal climbed up after the worker, and a whole unknown world opened up before him from a bird's eye view.
But the repairman, having fixed the breakdown, left and slammed the hatch. Vasily spent the whole night on the roof, but did not lose heart.
Even when a puppy friend noticed him from the yard in the morning, the kitten did not scream for help. Despite the rumbling in his stomach, he pretended that he didn’t want to go down at all.
On the contrary, Vaska came up with the idea that he was performing an important task - protecting the antennas . However, you can’t sit on the roof all your life, and the animal begins to look for a way out.
He will definitely be able to come down, and in a very unusual way ...
Cats don't dance
- Rating 7.8 / 6.9 (Kinopoisk/IMDb)
- Genre: cartoon, musical, fantasy, comedy, family
- Country: USA
- Starring Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole
- Director Mark Dindal
- Duration 75 min. / 01:15
- Turner Feature Animation Studio
- Premiere date March 26, 1997
- Screenplay: Robert Gannaway, Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser
Next in the selection is the Warner Bros. cartoon. from The Emperor's New Groove director Mark Dindal. This is the case when they decided not to spend money on the plot, and invested all their creative resources into details in songs, dialogues, drawing and character development. A musical about a tailed purr who comes to Hollywood with a dream of red carpets and difficult roles, and on the spot receives discrimination and high competition - only moles have not seen such a plot. But the creators got creative with everything else, and even came up with an antagonist such that there might be more candidates in the queue for childfree.
Trailer:
"Kitten from Lizyukov Street"
The duration of the 1988 cartoon is 10 minutes.
The director of the project is a man with the telling name Vyacheslav Kotenochkin. “Kitten from Lizyukov Street” is his last film work, if you don’t count the revived “Well, wait a minute!”
Kitten Vaska lives in the glorious city of Voronezh on Lizyukova Street. Everything about him is great, except for the neighbor's dog.
Among the voice actors are the famous Vyacheslav Nevinny and Olga Aroseva.
She does not allow Vasily passage, constantly driving him up a tree, onto a fence, or somewhere else. The kitten has already despaired of waiting for a quiet existence.
But one day a crow landed on the tree where he was hiding. The bird knows a wonderful spell that can turn Vaska into a terrible beast.
This is how a small four-legged resident of Voronezh becomes a huge hippopotamus . Along the way, the crow takes him somewhere to Africa, where Vasily will have to go through many not very pleasant adventures. After such miracles, he will understand that there is no better city in the world than Voronezh. At least if you are a kitten and your name is Vasily.
This wonderful cartoon captivated both children and adults. It is not surprising that in 2003, on Lizyukova Street, which actually exists in Voronezh, a monument was opened .
Watch now:
Kitten from Lizyukov Street
It was not only in the Soviet Union that animated films about kittens were loved and made.
Hollywood has created many films about these glorious restless creatures.
Some were made at the legendary Disney Studios. The most famous, of course, is “Aristocats”.
The film company also presented many other great films featuring furry animals. Some of them were published during Walt's lifetime.
Aristocratic cats
- Rating 8.1 / 7.1 (Kinopoisk/IMDb)
- Genre: cartoon, musical, comedy, adventure, family
- Country: USA
- Starring Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway
- Directed by Wolfgang Reiterman
- Duration 78 min. / 01:18
- Walt Disney Productions Studio
- Premiere date December 11, 1970
- Screenplay: Larry Clemmons, Vance Gerry, Ken Anderson
In the 21st century, the Duchess would definitely become the queen of Instagram: this snow-white purr is simply the embodiment of grace, tenderness and cat delight. In addition, the Duchess is always surrounded by her kittens: Berlioz, Toulouse and Marie. All four furry cats live in the house of Madame Bonfamili, an elderly lonely woman who loves her cats. Madame has neither a husband nor children, and the old woman wants to bequeath all her huge fortune to the mustaches and her butler Edgar. Well, who is man's best friend after that? But Edgar isn’t exactly evil, but the butler doesn’t want to stand in line for wealth behind four-legged angels who can’t even write a check. Therefore, he makes a not very logical decision to eliminate the mustachioed heirs. So spoiled cats, accustomed to lapping up fresh cream and sleeping on feather beds, find themselves on a dirty road far from the city. In such conditions, playing the piano and the ability to draw do not give aristocrats any survival bonuses, and without help, purebred purrs will not return to the house of their beloved mistress. It's good that in the movies you can always meet a charming stranger on the road to Paris. For example, Thomas O'Malley, a red-haired tramp, whom the Duchess's languid and sad eyes do not leave indifferent. Thomas undertakes to accompany the unhappy family home, and the dangerous journey turns into a romantic walk through the cozy French streets.
Trailer:
The idea was partially copied from the plot of “Purrs” from 1962. In the old Warner Bros. animated musical. the village cat purrs in the voice of Judy Garland, and all her meows are dedicated only to dreams of Paris. Murlyka goes there, abandoning his faithful and loving cat Jean-Tom in his native village. The French capital does not greet Murlyka very hospitably, and the snow-white graceful cat is kidnapped by criminal cats. Now the time has come for Jean-Tom to prove that the loyalty and love of one village softpaw is worth all the temptations of Paris.
"Mickey Mouse and the Orphans"
A black and white 7-minute film was released in 1931.
The Mouse family is preparing for Christmas . Minnie sings songs to the piano, Mickey decorates the Christmas tree, and the dog Pluto sleeps by the burning fireplace. However, the idyll does not last long.
Someone throws kittens under the door , hoping that the spirit of Christmas will not allow the orphans to be left in the cold. Kind Mickey and Minnie, of course, welcome kids with open arms. But it would be nice if there were two or three of them! There’s a whole basket of kittens, and each one is a real naughty boy and a hooligan.
Pluto immediately turns into a living rope, whose ears and tail are pulled by the orphans. The parrot is forced out of its cage to swing on its perch.
Furniture is shot at with toy guns or simply sawed into pieces. In general, there is real chaos in the house. Even the gorgeous fluffy Christmas tree instantly became naked as soon as the mischievous people were allowed near it to get toys.
This funny short film was one of the first in which the legendary mouse appeared. Moreover, he was voiced personally by Walt Disney.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Animated Short Film”.
But she lost to another studio work - “ Flowers and Trees ”. It was also directed by the director of Mickey Mouse and the Orphans, Burt Gillette, thus winning the world's main film award against himself.
Once upon a time there was a cat
- Rating 6.8 / 6.7 (Kinopoisk/IMDb)
- Genre: Cartoon, Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Family
- Country Japan, Canada
- Starring Mao Inoue, Ryohei Suzuki, Akio Ohtsuka
- Directed by Moto Sakakibara, Kunihiko Yuyama
- Duration 89 min. / 01:29
- Bandai Studio
- Premiere date June 22, 2016
- Screenplay by Yoichi Kato, Hiroshi Saito, Hanmo Sugiura
The black kitten Rudolf lived in a cozy house with his beloved girl-hostess, but one day, simply out of curiosity, he ran out the gate and got lost. I got so lost that I accidentally drove off to another city. Cars, people hurrying somewhere, dogs - the world is not very kind to lost kittens. But the red-tailed tramp with a million names turned out to be more sensitive. So Rudolph got a mentor who decided to help the baby return home.
Trailer:
"Three homeless kittens"
This 9-minute film from 1935 is included in the famous Silly Symphonies , a collection of animated miniatures featuring great music and funny plots.
In severe cold and snowfall, evil people throw three kittens into someone's yard.
The kids were not at a loss and, noticing an open basement window, made their way inside.
While the housekeeper, not noticing the furry guests, was minding her own business, they managed to get into a lot of mischief .
Dishes were broken in the kitchen, pillows were torn up and toys were broken in the nursery, all the vases were knocked over in the living room.
Finally, the housekeeper noticed the orphans playing around. She was about to put them outside, but the owner’s daughter came running and begged her to put the kittens in.
The work of director David Hand was awarded an Oscar in the category “Best Animated Short Film”.
The hooligans were dressed up in caps and pajamas, which they were extremely unhappy with, but they were given milk to drink. So the animals found a new home .
"Kitten thief"
Another 7-minute painting from the “Silly Symphonies” cycle. It was filmed in the same 1935.
Charming Ambrose does not want to be sweet, kind and obedient. He likes daring battles and the wind of wanderings.
He dreams of becoming a highwayman , and even came up with a new name for himself - Butch.
While the mother was pouring a bath for the kitten, he decided that robbers never bathe, so it was time to run in search of adventure . After sticking his tongue out at the bath and stealing the cookies, the baby sets off.
Ambrose-Butch disappeared into the forest, not knowing that the real bandit, Dirty Bill, was already hiding there.
Getting to know him makes the kid understand that robbery is not fun at all. And he rushes as fast as he can back home to take a bath.
"Figaro and Cleo"
The 8-minute film was presented in 1943.
Figaro the kitten made his debut on the silver screen in 1940 , in the famous “Pinocchio”. It was the story of a wooden doll that turned into a living boy.
Figaro and Cleo the fish are the pets of Pinocchio and his father, Master Gepetto.
The audience loved the animals no less than the main characters. Therefore, a few years after the premiere of the full-length film, a separate short film was invented about them.
According to the plot, Figaro really wants to eat. But the only thing next to him that looks like food is a goldfish.
But the housekeeper cannot allow the kitten to eat Cleo .
As a result, having overcome instincts and hunger, the baby remembers that he and the fish are friends. But you can’t eat friends!
As a reward for his perseverance, Figaro receives a bowl of milk.
