Music
Bradley's score is inventive in its use of Schoenberg's atonal twelve-tone technique. In one example, the piccolo and oboe, representing Jerry the mouse, repeat a tone row twice; it is then echoed in reverse by the bassoon, representing Tom the cat. Similar serial techniques would not appear in feature films until 1955's The Cobweb.
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