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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_552.jpeg]]
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3	''Three Orphan Kittens'' is a 1935 animated short film produced by Creator/WaltDisney as one of the WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies. The story, as much as there is a story, concerns the said three kittens, who are chucked out of a car into a cold and snowy night. Fortunately for the kittens they are chucked into the back yard of a house, and they manage to find a way in. Chaos ensues as the three rambunctious kittens do stuff like knocking over china and getting stuck in bottles.
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5	''Three Orphan Kittens'' was directed by David Hand. A sequel cartoon ''More Kittens'' was made a year later.
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10	* AnimationBump: Several scenes (like the one in the page image) have backgrounds animated in perspective and reflections on the floor. Even for 1930s Disney, this was exceptionally lush.
11	* {{Bowdlerization}}: The racist gag with the doll (see UncleTomfoolery below) is often cut out of latter-day TV airings.
12	* ButtMonkey: The black kitten of the trio gets into the most mishaps.
13	* CuteKitten: They sure are cute.
14	* TheFaceless: The faces of the housekeeper and the child aren't seen.
15	* HeartwarmingOrphan: Well, they're orphans, and they're heartwarming, being flung heartlessly into the snow only to cutely gambol about a house.
16	* HelpImStuck: One of the kittens gets its head stuck in a milk bottle.
17	* KneeHighPerspective: The action is staged at a low angle to convey the kittens' point of view.
18	* {{Mammy}}: The servant, who is black and dressed in a standard maid's outfit, with apron. And just to make sure the audience gets it, a lily-white child shows up at the end just as the servant is about to toss the kittens back into the snow.
19	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The black cat is the "mean", repeatedly pouncing on household objects for the sake of it, the grey cat is the "in-between", only attacking the pie because it thought it had attacked it first (when it splashed him), and the orange cat is the "nice", never making any attempts to pounce on anything.
20	* PianoKeyWave: The kittens climb on a player piano and turn it on. The keys bounce up and down, carrying the kittens along. When the speed is turned up, the kittens are being juggled about and one is even spanked by the hammers inside.
21	* NoPlotNoProblem: As with many Silly Symphonies of the day, which were more concerned with mastering the Art of animation, this one doesn't really have a plot. It's basically just eight minutes of cute kittens messing stuff up.
22	* RuleOfThree: Well there couldn't be ''two'' kittens or ''four'' kittens, could there?

Context WesternAnimation / ThreeOrphanKittens