"Jerry"" series went into production with ""The Midnight Snack"" in 1941, and Hanna and Barbera rarely directed anything but the cat-and-mouse cartoons for the rest of their tenure at MGM. Barbera would create the story for each short while Hanna would supervise production. Tom's physical appearance evolved significantly over the years. During the early 1940s, Tom had an excess of detail—shaggy fur, numerous facial wrinkles, and multiple eyebrow markings, all of which were streamlined into a more workable form by the end of the 1940s. In addition, he also looked like a more realistic cat early on; evolving from his"
"in the original cartoons, the duo talked extensively in this film. Joseph Barbera, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera and co-creator of ""Tom and Jerry"", served as creative consultant for the film. After having its world premiere in Germany on October 1, 1992, ""Tom and Jerry: The Movie"" was released theatrically by Miramax Films and LIVE Entertainment on July 30, 1993 in the United States. The film was a box office bomb, earning only $3.6 million against a budget of $3.5 million and received predominantly negative reviews from critics largely for the film's use of dialogue for the characters, musical numbers, sub-par voice"
"currently available. As of 2018, the film has also yet to be released on Blu-ray. Tom and Jerry: The Movie Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a 1992 American animated musical buddy comedy-adventure film starring the Academy Award-winning cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced and directed by Phil Roman, the film stars the voices of Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Tony Jay, Rip Taylor, Henry Gibson, Michael Bell, Ed Gilbert, David L. Lander, Howard Morris and Charlotte Rae. Produced by Turner Pictures and Roman's Film Roman, it is the first theatrical feature-length animated film featuring the cat-and-mouse duo as"
"Tom & Jerry Kids Tom & Jerry Kids (also known as Tom & Jerry Kids Show) is an American animated children's comedy television series, co-produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Entertainment Co., starring the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry as children (kitten and mouse). The show premiered in 1990 and continued airing until 1993. It began airing as the third program of the FOX's children's block, Fox Kids on September 8, 1990. The series is somewhat similar to the ""older"" version of the original theatricals, partly akin to being produced by creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, founders of H-B. In"
"animation studio while Van Beuren focused on other parts of the business. In 1929, Terry quit to start his own Terrytoons studio and John Foster took over the animation department. Van Beuren released his films through RKO Pictures. The early sound Van Beuren cartoons are almost identical to the late silent cartoons: highly visual, with little dialogue and occasional sound effects. Bandleaders Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples supervised the music. The company's main cartoon characters were ""Tom and Jerry"", a tall-and-short pair, usually vagrants who attempted various occupations. They share no relation to MGM's more successful Tom and Jerry, a"
"six volumes were later released in 2-packs. Tom and Jerry Tales Tom and Jerry Tales is an American animated television series starring the Academy Award-winning cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it ran in the United States from September 23, 2006 to March 22, 2008 on The CW. ""Tom and Jerry"" co-creator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Joseph Barbera served as an executive producer for the series before his death and received story credit on some short cartoons of the show's first season. The series features two seasons and 26 episodes each consisting of three shorts with"
"type Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, and Bosko had, and the series was cancelled in 1933. Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) Tom and Jerry are fictional characters that starred in a series of early sound cartoons produced by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO Pictures. The series lasted from 1931 to 1933. When Official Films purchased the Van Beuren library in the 1950s, the characters were renamed Dick and Larry to avoid confusion with ""Tom and Jerry"", the famous MGM cartoon series of the 1940s and 1950s. Today, animation historians refer to the characters as Van Beuren's Tom and"
"Tom and Jerry Tales Tom and Jerry Tales is an American animated television series starring the Academy Award-winning cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it ran in the United States from September 23, 2006 to March 22, 2008 on The CW. ""Tom and Jerry"" co-creator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Joseph Barbera served as an executive producer for the series before his death and received story credit on some short cartoons of the show's first season. The series features two seasons and 26 episodes each consisting of three shorts with approximately the same runtime as the original"
"Tom and Jerry: The Movie Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a 1992 American animated musical buddy comedy-adventure film starring the Academy Award-winning cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced and directed by Phil Roman, the film stars the voices of Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Tony Jay, Rip Taylor, Henry Gibson, Michael Bell, Ed Gilbert, David L. Lander, Howard Morris and Charlotte Rae. Produced by Turner Pictures and Roman's Film Roman, it is the first theatrical feature-length animated film featuring the cat-and-mouse duo as well as the duo's return to the big screen after 25 years. Although largely mute"
"have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters). However, the film is broadcast in widescreen on Cartoon Network in the United States and released in widescreen on the Region A Blu-ray. """" was released on August 22, 2006. Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry is a 2005 American animated action-adventure comedy film starring the Academy Award-winning cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment Co., it was"
"""The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show"" (1980–82), ""Tom and Jerry Kids"" (1990–93), ""Tom and Jerry Tales"" (2006–08), and ""The Tom and Jerry Show"" (2014–present). The first feature-length film based on the series, """", was released in 1992, and 13 direct-to-video films have been produced since 2002. The series features comic fights between an iconic set of adversaries, a house cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry). The plots of each short usually center on Tom's numerous attempts to capture Jerry and the mayhem and destruction that follows. Tom rarely succeeds in catching Jerry, mainly because of Jerry's cleverness, cunning abilities, and"
"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 2017 American direct-to-DVD animated musical comedy film featuring the characters Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the first Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film to be distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment internationally and is also the final Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film to be involved with Warner Bros. Animation's founder, Hal Geer, who died on January 26, 2017. The film is an animated adaptation of the film ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)"" with the"
"The Tom and Jerry Show (1975 TV series) The Tom and Jerry Show, also known as ""The New Tom and Jerry Show"", is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with MGM Television in 1975 for ABC based on the theatrical shorts and characters ""Tom and Jerry"". This series marked the first time ever that Tom and Jerry appeared in animated installments produced exclusively for television. The show was made by Hanna-Barbera Productions and is owned by Warner Bros. Television (thru Warner Bros. Family Entertainment and Turner Entertainment Co.). Here, in a much toned"
"Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (simply known as Hanna-Barbera and also referred to as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.) was an American animation studio. It was founded in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors and ""Tom and Jerry"" creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, in partnership with film director George Sidney. For more than three decades in the mid-20th century, it was a prominent force in American television animation. The studio is known for creating a wide variety of popular animated characters and for 30 years, it produced a succession of cartoon shows, including ""The Flintstones"", ""The"
"poorly received series of ""The Captain and the Kids"" cartoons, the studio rehired Harman and Ising in 1939, and Ising created the studio's first successful animated character, Barney Bear. However, MGM's biggest cartoon stars would come in the form of the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940. The ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons won seven Academy Awards between 1943 and 1953. In 1941, Tex Avery, another Schlesinger alumnus, joined the animation department. Avery gave the unit its image, with successes like ""Red Hot Riding Hood"", ""Swing Shift Cinderella"", and the ""Droopy"" series. Avery"
"the series followed Jerry, the rodent who continually outwitted his feline foe, Tom. Hanna said they settled on the cat and mouse theme for this cartoon because: ""We knew we needed two characters. We thought we needed conflict, and chase and action. And a cat after a mouse seemed like a good, basic thought."" The revamped characters first appeared in 1941's ""The Midnight Snack"". Over the next 17 years Hanna and Barbera worked almost exclusively on ""Tom and Jerry"", directing more than 114 highly popular cartoon shorts. During World War II they also made animated training films. ""Tom and Jerry"""
"of 7 to 11 years"". ""Tom and Jerry"" began appearing in comic books in 1942, as one of the features in ""Our Gang Comics"". In 1949, with MGM's live-action ""Our Gang"" shorts having ceased production five years earlier, the series was renamed ""Tom and Jerry Comics"". The pair continued to appear in various books for the rest of the 20th century. The pair have also appeared in a number of video games as well, spanning titles for systems for the Sega Genesis plus also Sega Game Gear and the Sega Master System and their rival console around the 1990s, Nintendo"
"Cartoon, but another MGM cartoon, Rudolf Ising's ""The Milky Way"" did, making ""MGM cartoon studio"" the first studio to wrestle the Cartoon Academy Award away from Walt Disney. After appearing in ""Puss Gets the Boot"", Tom and Jerry quickly became the stars of MGM cartoons. With Hanna-Barbera under their belts, ""MGM cartoon studio"" was finally able to compete with Disney in the field of animated cartoons. The shorts were successful at the box office, many licensed products (comic books, toys, etc.) were released to the market, and the series would earn twelve more Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) nominations,"
"film is broadcast in widescreen on Cartoon Network in the United States and released in widescreen on the Region A Blu-ray. """" was released on October 2, 2007. Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers is a 2006 animated made-for-direct-to-video feature film starring ""Tom and Jerry"", produced by Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. It was directed by Scott Jeralds, with the screenplay done by Chris Painter and the animation services provided by the South Korean studio Yearim, which is notably responsible for its overseas work on other ""Tom and Jerry"" productions, as well as"
"met William Hanna. The two men began a collaboration that was at first best known for producing ""Tom and Jerry"". In 1957, after MGM dissolved their animation department, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, producing programs such as ""The Flintstones"", ""Yogi Bear"", ""Scooby-Doo"", ""Top Cat"", ""The Smurfs"", ""Huckleberry Hound"" and ""The Jetsons"". In 1967, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company until 1991. At that time, the studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System, which in turn was merged with Time"
"and Ferb"", ""Gravity Falls"", ""Rugrats"", ""Hey Arnold!"", ""The Fairly OddParents"" and ""Steven Universe."" Animated series shown in movie theatres include the ""Tom and Jerry"" animated cartoon short films that appeared in movie theaters from 1940 to 1967. Direct-to-video animated series include most Japanese original video animations (OVAs). The first OVA series (and also the first overall OVA) was ""Dallos"" (1983). Almost all hentai (pornographic) anime series are released as OVAs. Animated web series first appeared in the late 1990s, with the first internet animated cartoon series, ""The Goddamn George Liquor Program"" (1997–1998), followed by other early series that included ""WhirlGirl"","
"own studios during the 1960s. Fred Quimby died in Santa Monica, California in 1965 and was buried in Glendale. Fred Quimby Frederick Clinton Quimby (July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965) was an American cartoon producer, best known as producing ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons, for which he won 7 Academy Awards. He was the film sales executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery, as well as William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of ""Tom and Jerry""). Quimby was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and started his career as a journalist. In 1907, he managed a film"
"Junior cartoons were reissued. The studio was shut down on May 15, 1957, and Hanna and Barbera took most of their unit and began producing television cartoons with their company Hanna-Barbera Productions. Hanna-Barbera first approached MGM to distribute their cartoons for television, but were turned down. Columbia Pictures' picked up Hanna-Barbera's product, and the studio soon became the most successful producers of television animation in the world. MGM would later have Gene Deitch create a series of ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons before contracting Chuck Jones and Les Goldman's Sib Tower 12 studio to create more ""Tom and Jerry"" shorts. Sib"
"Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure is a 2013 animated fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the final Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film to be distributed by Warner Home Video in Japan. Tom and Jerry are the faithful servants of Jack, son of the founder of a struggling storybook amusement park that gets a much-needed boost thanks to some mysterious magical beans. This direct-to-video animated film is followed by ""The Tom and Jerry Show"". Tom and Jerry live with Jack and his mother in Storybook Town, a"
"Jerry's face is proud (in the opening of the episode Tom's face is evil-looking and Jerry's face scared). Switchin' Kitten The Switchin' Kitten is a ""Tom and Jerry"" animated short film, released on September 7, 1961 (renewed 1989). It was the first cartoon in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia, after William Hanna and Joseph Barbera departed from MGM. It is also the first Tom & Jerry cartoon in the 1960s and the first of the Western cartoons that is made in Eastern Europe, as well as in an Eastern"
"broadcast on China Central Television. The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 TV series) The Tom and Jerry Show is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Renegade Animation. Based on the ""Tom and Jerry"" characters and theatrical cartoon series created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940, the series first premiered on the Canadian channel Teletoon on March 1, 2014 and began airing on Cartoon Network in the United States on April 9, 2014. On March 7, 2017, it was announced that future episodes of the series would be released on Boomerang's SVOD service. A"
"Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Hanna and Barbera served as writer/directors of the ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons until 1956, when they also became the producers. Fourteen ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons between 1940 and 1954 were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, with seven of the shorts winning that award. MGM shut down its animation department in 1957, but new ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons were produced by Gene Deitch and later Chuck Jones during the 1960s. Jerry would also appear in later ""Tom and Jerry"" productions made for television, a series of direct-to-video features, and """","
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was the in-house division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film studio in Hollywood, responsible for producing animated shorts to accompany MGM feature films in Loew's Theaters. Active from 1937 until 1957, the cartoon studio created some of the most popular cartoon characters, including Tom and Jerry, Droopy, and Red Hot Riding Hood & The Wolf. Prior to forming its own cartoon studio, MGM released the work of independent animation producer Ub Iwerks, and later the ""Happy Harmonies"" series from Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. The MGM cartoon studio was founded to replace Harman and Ising,"
"feline foe, Tom. Hanna said they settled on the cat and mouse theme for this cartoon because ""we knew we needed two characters. We thought we needed conflict, and chase and action. And a cat after a mouse seemed like a good, basic thought."" The revamped characters first appeared in 1941's ""The Midnight Snack"". Over the next 17 years, Barbera and Hanna worked exclusively on ""Tom and Jerry"", directing more than 114 popular cartoon shorts. During World War II, they also made animated training films. ""Tom and Jerry"" relied mostly on motion instead of dialog. Despite its popularity, ""Tom and"
"Spike's dislike of Tom). A short-lived ""Spike and Tyke"" cartoon series was produced by MGM in 1957; only two entries were completed. Within a year, the MGM cartoon studio had shut down, and Hanna and Barbera took Spike and Tyke and retooled them to create one of the first television successes for Hanna-Barbera Productions, ""Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy"". Spike and Tyke would not appear in new ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons, until the 1970s ""The Tom and Jerry Show"", the 1980s ""The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show"", and 1990's ""Tom & Jerry Kids"" (in which Tom and Jerry themselves were"
"classic cartoon stars ""babyfication"" of older, classic cartoon stars, and on March 2, 1990, ""Tom and Jerry Kids"", co-produced by Turner Entertainment Co. and Hanna-Barbera Productions (which would be sold to Turner in 1991) debuted on Fox Kids and for a few years, aired on British children's block, CBBC. It featured a youthful version of the famous cat-and-mouse duo chasing each other. As with the 1975 H-B series, Jerry wears his red bowtie, while Tom now wears a red cap. Spike and his son Tyke (who now had talking dialogue) and Droopy and his son Dripple, appeared in back-up segments"
"although both men eventually became employees of the studio. After a slow start, the studio began to take off in 1940 after its short ""The Milky Way"" became the first non-Disney cartoon to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons. The studio's roster of talent benefited from an exodus of animators from the Schlesinger and Disney studios, which were facing issues with union workers. Originally established and run by executive Fred Quimby, in 1955 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the writer-directors of the ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons, became the heads of the studio. The cartoon studio was closed"
"and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes"" was released on August 24, 2010. Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is a 2007 animated holiday themed fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring Tom and Jerry produced by Warner Bros. Animation and directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone. It is loosely based on the story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, with Jerry in the role of the Nutcracker, while Tom played one of the King Mouse's (who, in this version, is replaced with a cat) henchmen. This film would be the last"