Tom competes with an alley cat (Meathead) to see who can catch Jerry first. Jerry flees from Tom by hiding with a chicken family. Tom and Jerry chase each other around a bowling alley.įirst cartoon featuring a sport as its theme. Tom and Jerry team up to stop the Bulldog from mauling both of them.įirst appearance of Spike as an Unnamed Bulldog.įirst appearance of Toots. television print cuts out Mammy Two Shoes due to racially insensitive subject matter. Jerry plays tricks to scare the fur off of Tom. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subjects, Cartoons. Tom gets to know the spirit of giving when he begins to feel guilty after blockading the front door, trapping Jerry outside in the cold on Christmas Eve. Jerry attempts to outsmart Tom so he can get a snack from the refrigerator.įirst time Tom and Jerry are referred to by those names. First Tom and Jerry cartoon nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoon. Tom (here named Jasper) tries to stop the mouse Jerry (here named Jinx) from breaking plates and glasses before Mammy Two Shoes can kick Jasper out.įirst appearances of Tom (as Jasper), Jerry (as Jinx), and Mammy Two Shoes. Because of the 1965 MGM vault fire, all original film of pre-September-1951 MGM cartoons are lost, leaving only the backup prints (usually the altered reissue prints), although some production artwork relating to the missing material has survived, like pencil sketches. MGM also reissued its cartoons before the introduction of Perspecta Sound. Many pre-1952 cartoons were reissued with Perspecta Sound, which was introduced in 1954. Like the other studios, MGM reissued and edited its cartoons when rereleased to theaters. Finally, 19 cartoons were produced in widescreen CinemaScope format only (though reissues have the standard Academy ratio (1.37:1) instead).
Four cartoons were produced for both Academy Ratio and CinemaScope formats (2.55:1, later 2.35:1). Most of these cartoons were produced in the standard Academy ratio (1.37:1). Quimby retired in 1955 and from 1955 to 1957, Hanna and Barbera produced the shorts until MGM closed the cartoon studio in 1957, and the last cartoon was released in 1958. Rudolf Ising was the producer of Puss Gets the Boot subsequent cartoons were produced by Fred Quimby through 1955. All cartoons were released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The following 114 cartoons were directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in Hollywood, California.
As of 2013, both cartoons are still unavailable on DVD.1940–58: Hanna-Barbera/MGM Cartoons
#Spike and tyke series#
The cartoons in the Spike and Tyke series also had the Tom and Jerry theme music playing over the opening titles.īoth Spike and Tyke cartoons have been released in their original widescreen formats (albeit letterboxed) on The Art of Tom and Jerry Volume 2 laserdisc set in the 1990s alongside other one-shot MGM cartoons directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at MGM such as War Dogs (which Spike from Tom and Jerry makes a brief cameo appearance), Officer Pooch, Gallopin' Gals, Officer Pooch and The Goose Goes South.
Only two films were made in this spin-off series: Give and Tyke and Scat Cats, both released in 1957, and produced in CinemaScope and Technicolor, as the cartoon studio shut down the year the spin-off series was started. Spike and Tyke is a short-lived theatrical animated short subject series, based upon the American bulldog father-and-son duo from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry cartoons.
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