Heavenly Puss Backgrounds

“Heavenly Puss” (July 1949) has some fine acting by Tom and the bulldog (even a Wile E. Coyote-like wave at the camera before Tom drops into Hell) but just as enjoyable are the backgrounds, greatly assisted by MGM’s contract with Technicolor.



Here’s an interior. Notice the wall is curved.



Who did the backgrounds? And from whose layouts? MGM never tells us in the credits. Dick Bickenbach was doing at least some of the layouts for the Tom and Jerry unit and Bob Gentle some of the backgrounds. But who knows who else was at the studio then.