Studio: International Film Service
Short Synopsis
Reliable plot documentation for this short is thin, and the descriptions attached to online copies contradict each other, so this summary sticks to what the surviving film shows. The title borrows the popular song "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)", published in 1913, and the cartoon is built around Krazy Kat's lovesick musical performance. Krazy appears outside a sign reading "Krazy Kat" and later sits at an upright piano, framed in a circular iris, singing with eyes closed and head tilted back in rapture. Ignatz Mouse, the object of the serenade, is as unmoved as usual, and the "duet" of the title is a lopsided one: Krazy pours out affection while Ignatz answers with hostility. Later scenes move indoors to a room with a small table and stool, where Krazy is seen with a large jar.
Why It Matters
- Watch the piano scene. The animators isolate Krazy in a spotlight-like iris and let the whole body perform the song, a silent cartoon trying to make music visible at a time when it could only be heard from the cinema's own pianist.
- It is one of the first Krazy Kat films, made in the opening weeks of William Randolph Hearst's International Film Service. The song-title gimmick shows the studio pitching its cartoons to audiences who knew the tunes of the day, an early version of the sing-along and song-based shorts the Fleischers and others would later turn into a format.
Notes and Trivia
- One online copy describes the film as Krazy and Ignatz trying to scare a woman at a circus; none of the frames this book checked show a circus, so that description is not used here.
- A modern upload adds a newly composed score by Richard White.
- See also: Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916).