"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 third made-for-video attempt to recapture the style of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's original film shorts from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and marked the 65th anniversary of the cat-and-mouse team alongside """" (also directed by Bill Kopp). It was first released theatrically at selected cities of the United States by Kidtoon Films in September 2005 and again in"
"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"
"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 theater in Missoula, Montana. Later, he worked at Pathé, and became a member of the board of directors before"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"a brief flurry of such series a few years earlier. These included Hanna-Barbera's ""Top Cat"", ""The Jetsons"" and ""Jonny Quest"", Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.'s ""The Alvin Show"", and Bob Clampett's ""Beany and Cecil"". Some Saturday morning programs consisted of telecasts of older cartoons originally made for movie theaters, such as the ""Bugs Bunny"" and ""Road Runner"" cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, the ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for that studio prior to establishing their own company; the ""Mighty Mouse"" and ""Heckle and Jeckle"" cartoons produced by Paul Terry's ""Terrytoons"", and"
"The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit is a ""Tom and Jerry"" animated short film, produced and released on August 10, 1962. It was the ninth of the thirteen cartoons in a series of thirteen to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. This is the first 1962 cartoon to update its copyright to 1962. ""The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit"" is a sarcastic attack on the series as a whole and its formulaic approach, which the short mocks as excessively violent and designed solely for profit. Deitch had"
"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"
"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 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 fourth season of the series"
"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"
"that held until ""Titanic"" matched it in 1997 and """" in 2003. In 1961, MGM resumed the release of new ""Tom and Jerry"" shorts, and production moved to Rembrandt Films in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) under the supervision of Gene Deitch, who had been hired away from UPA. Although Deitch's ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons were considered to be vastly inferior to the original Hanna and Barbera style of animation, they did receive positive reviews from certain fans. In 1963, the production of ""Tom and Jerry"" returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones and his Sib Tower 12 Productions studio"
"that cartoon, he agreed to make Tom and Jerry an official cartoon of the MGM cartoon studio. As producer, Quimby became a repeated recipient of the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the Tom and Jerry films, though he never invited Hanna and Barbera onstage when he accepted the awards. His name became well known due to its prominence in the cartoon credits, and Quimby took sole credit for approving and producing the Tom and Jerry series. Quimby was not involved in the creative process and had a difficult relationship with animators, including Hanna and Barbera, who believed that"
"overwhelmingly negative reviews, with some critics questioning its existence. Ryan Scott of Movieweb described it as ""just the latest in a long line of these uncalled for mashups."" Beth Elderkin of Gizmodo wrote: """"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"" is not just stupid, it's insulting. It's a cheap mockbuster with a cat and mouse artlessly, needlessly inserted."" 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"
"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"
"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,"
"version, in 1080p high definition. Moreover, a two-disc collection of all of Droopy's cartoons was released in May 2007. Rumors have floated around for years of a box set consisting of Tex Avery's MGM work, but nothing has been released besides the ""Spotlight"" and ""Golden"" box sets for ""Tom and Jerry"" and the ""Droopy"" collection in USA, although all of Tex Avery's cartoons were released on DVD in France through Warner Home Video. 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"
"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"
"the Academy version). Contrary to the CinemaScope version, the Academy version is missing information present at left and right side of the frame in many shots from the CinemaScope version. Laserdisc Pet Peeve (1954 film) The Pet Peeve is the 88th one-reel animated ""Tom and Jerry"" short, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse Ed Barge and Irven Spence, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It was released on November 20, 1954 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the first ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoon to be"
"originals, and lasted on CBS Saturday mornings from September 6, 1980 to September 4, 1982. In 1986, MGM was purchased by WTBS founder Ted Turner. Turner sold the company a short while later, but retained MGM's pre-1986 film library, thus ""Tom and Jerry"" became the property of Turner Entertainment Co. (where the rights stand today via Warner Bros.), and have in subsequent years appeared on Turner-run stations, such as TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, The WB, Boomerang, and Turner Classic Movies. One of the biggest trends for Saturday morning television in the 1980s and 1990s was the child versions of famous"
"Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection is a one-disc DVD collection of animated short cartoons starring Tom and Jerry, all directed by Gene Deitch and produced in 1961-62. It was released on June 2, 2015 on Region 1. This collection brought all the Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons together for the first time on DVD (on Region 1). These are the same 13 cartoons that appear on European DVD collection in PAL format, """", Vol. 5., released in August 2005, albeit presented restored & remastered in the set, as opposed to the"
"MGM Animation/Visual Arts MGM Animation/Visual Arts was an American animation studio established in 1962 by animation director/producer Chuck Jones and producer Les Goldman as Sib Tower 12 Productions. Its productions include the last series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical shorts, the TV specials ""Horton Hears a Who"" and the feature film ""The Phantom Tollbooth"", all released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The studio began as ""SIB Productions"", which evolved into ""Sib Tower 12, Inc."" It was founded in 1962 when Chuck Jones left Warner Bros. Cartoons, where he had served for over 30 years directing the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" series. A"
"consisting of two 11-minute shorts per episode that likewise sought to maintain the look, core characters and sensibility of the original theatrical shorts. Similar to other reboot works like ""Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated"" and ""The Looney Tunes Show"", several episodes the new series brought Tom and Jerry into contemporary environments, telling new stories and relocating the characters to more fantastic worlds, from a medieval castle to a mad scientist's lab. Titled ""The Tom and Jerry Show"", the series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, with Sam Register serving as executive producer in collaboration with Darrell Van Citters and Ashley Postelwaite at"
"Tom and Jerry Show"" was originally intended to premiere on Cartoon Network in 2013 before being pushed back to April 9, 2014. It is the second ""Tom and Jerry"" television series produced in the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and the first to be animated in Adobe Flash. It is also the second made-for-television iteration of the cartoons to emulate the theatrical shorts, the fifth made-for-television ""Tom and Jerry"" production and the first Tom and Jerry television production to be produced without any of its original creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who died in 2001 and 2006 respectively. ""The Tom"
"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"
"Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, and Lewis Marshall, this being Marshall's first ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoon for which he received an animation credit (replacing Ray Patterson who had left). The backgrounds were designed by Robert Gentle and the layouts by Richard Bickenbach. The cartoon was produced in CinemaScope, a form of Widescreen, and released to theatres on September 9, 1955 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Mousketeer Captain Jerry sits mooning at his portrait of a gorgeous French mouse called Lilli, then writes Lilli a love letter and calls his assistant Tuffy, telling him to deliver it. Tuffy goes out and, after briefly"
"Barbera and ""Tom and Jerry"" layout artist Harvey Eisenberg moonlit to run a comic book company named Dearfield Publishing. Active from 1946 to 1951, Dearfield's titles included """"Red"" Rabbit Comics"", ""Foxy Fagan"", and ""Junie Prom"". Quimby accepted each Academy Award for ""Tom and Jerry"" without inviting Barbera and Hanna onstage. The cartoons were also released with Quimby listed as the sole producer, following the same practice for which he had condemned Ising. Quimby once delayed a promised raise to Barbera by six months . When Quimby retired in late 1955, Hanna and Barbera were placed in charge of MGM's animation"