The many hued Sylvesters chasing Tweety through the armory display represents an accurate, if condensed, history of the development of modern weaponry.
Was going to be released theatrically in the USA with Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) but Warner Bros. decided to not to at the last minute and to put it with Scooby-Doo 2 - Die Monster sind los (2004), but Warner canceled it due to 'Back in Action's financial failure. However, the short was included on 'BiA' Blu-ray.
A few years later, Nachts im Museum (2006) would be released, which had a similar series of misadventures set in a large urban museum.
The animation zoetrope was an actual tool used in the early days of film making. It dates back to 1876. And the splitting of Sylvester by the prism into a multitude of colors is a nod to the old process of using individual colors to make a finished product, be it a photo or a film.