May 3, 1947 –
Sylvester tried to have Tweety Bird for lunch for the first time in the Looney Tunes cartoon, Tweetie Pie, which premiered on this date (Yeah, yeah, I know Sylvester is called Thomas but it’s Sylvester just the same. In 1948, with the cartoon Scaredy Cat, his name was changed to Sylvester, to avoid a lawsuit from MGM, the producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons.)
This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon to win the Academy Award. After this cartoon, Tweety and Sylvester would be permanently paired up until 1964.
The Haus of Dcaligari 