


This film was started as a side project, while Don Bluth was still working at Disney. When the truck arrives home, Banjo leaps off it and happily reunites with his family. However, Crazy manages to get Banjo on board, before it leaves without him and he waves goodbye to His new friends. After some rejoice and many goodbyes, Banjo is sad to leave his new found friends.
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The next morning, Banjo wakes up and hears the driver of the truck out in the street. Later that night, as Banjo was resting up at the singing cats' home, Crazy looks at the night sky, wondering if Banjo will ever get home.
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After a lengthy chase, the pair escape and drive the dogs away by climbing up a series of boxes. Later that night, while searching for the truck at a train station, Banjo and Crazy run into a group of dogs who end up chasing them. Afterwards, Crazy asks all the cats in the city to look for the truck. To cheer him up, Crazy and the girls break into a musical number and Banjo joins in. When asked if he misses his family, the kitten becomes depressed again. Inside, the leader of a singing cat trio, Zazu comes over to Crazy and meets Banjo.

During their search, Crazy and Banjo come to a night club that Crazy is familiar with. They strike up a friendship when Crazy tells Banjo that he can go back the same way he got here. Later, a cat named Crazy Legs discovers the lost kitten in the can. When it begins to rain, he finds shelter in a small can in an alley while thinking about his family and how he misses them. Banjo, thinking no one cares if He got hurt, and not wanting to face serious punishment, decides to run away from home and hitches a ride on a feed truck to Salt Lake City.Īrriving at the city, Banjo finds plenty of excitement, followed by a series of danger. Soon, Banjo’s father orders Him to get a switch within a minute. Eventually, after failing to goad His sisters to jump off the chicken coop, just to prove that cats always land on their feet, Banjo pulls His sisters’ tails downward to the ground, of course, they were unharmed, since the snow was soft enough to break their fall. But Banjo continues to be mischievous in many ways. His sisters, Emily and Jean, who see this, tell their parents and Banjo's father soon stops him and makes him promise not to do it again. In a woodpile in 1940s Payson, Utah, a kitten named Banjo decides to chase chickens around. (Same year when Don Bluth's first animated independent feature Film after leaving Walt Disney Productions in September 1978, titled "The Secret of NIMH", with distribution guaranteed by MGM/UA Communications Inc.) Also, as of March 20, 2019, the short, along with a handful of Bluth’s works, including Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park, Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent, and Titan A.E., as a result of the Disney-Fox merger, the distribution rights will belong to Disney.
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It was tested in 1980 as a TV short on HBO and then reached network television on several "ABC-TV" stations across the United States of America in 1982. It had a short theatrical run in November 1979, appearing as a short in front of "The Muppet Movie" (currently owned by Walt Disney Pictures) in theaters showing the film for a holiday re-release in the Los Angeles area. The short film took four years (from 1975 to 1979) to produce inside a backyard garage at Bluth's former home in Ventura, California (before Don started "Don Bluth Films" and lived at his current home in Scottsdale, Arizona) and it was Sullivan Bluth Studios' debut film.

"DVD Poster" to the short film's 30th Anniversary 2-Disc DVD Set sold to Don Bluth Fans (including Michael Igafo-Te'o) by Amazon Dot Com (The 30th Anniversary 2-Disc DVD Set is released by Don Bluth Films during 2009 (30 Years after "Banjo" was released in Los Angeles theaters in front of "The Muppet Movie" (Currently Owned by Disney) during November 1979)īanjo the Woodpile Cat is a 1979 traditionally animated 27-minute short film directed by Don Bluth and the film itself follows the story of Banjo, an overly curious but rebellious kitten who, after getting into trouble for falling from a chicken coop to see if he could land on his feet, runs away from his woodpile home in his owners' farm in Payson, Utah by hitching a ride on the Chipman feed truck to Salt Lake City, Utah.
