"for Best Short Subject: Cartoons"" of 1941. It lost to another MGM cartoon, Rudolph Ising's ""The Milky Way"". Producer Fred Quimby, who ran the MGM animation studio, quickly pulled Hanna and Barbera off the other one-shot cartoons they were working on, and commissioned a series featuring the cat and mouse. Hanna and Barbera held an intra-studio contest to give the pair a new name by drawing suggested names out of a hat; animator John Carr won $50 with his suggestion of ""Tom and Jerry"", at the time best known as the name of a Christmastime mixed drink. The ""Tom and"
"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"
"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 """","
"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"
"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 Jerry. Today, all of these cartoons are in the public domain. Joseph Barbera began his"
"Tom and Jerry Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, Tom, a cat, and Jerry, a mouse, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy. In its original run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 ""Tom and Jerry"" shorts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1940 to 1958. During this time, they won seven Academy Awards for Animated Short Film, tying for first place with Walt Disney's ""Silly Symphonies"" with the most awards in the category. After the MGM cartoon studio"
"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"
"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 following cartoons won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons: These cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but did not win: Tom and Jerry Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, Tom, a cat, and Jerry, a mouse, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy. In its original run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 ""Tom and Jerry"" shorts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1940 to 1958. During this time, they"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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"
"their team of animators, who included George Gordon, Jack Zander, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson and Pete Burness, worked on nothing but ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons from 1941 until 1955. Exceptions were half a dozen one-shot theatrical shorts, including ""Gallopin' Gals"" (1940), ""Officer Pooch"" (1941), ""War Dogs"" (1943), ""Good Will to Men"" (1955), and the last seven Tex Avery shorts featuring ""Droopy"". Key to the successes of ""Tom and Jerry"" and other MGM cartoons was the work of Scott Bradley, who scored virtually all of the cartoons for the studio from 1934 to 1957. Bradley's scores made"
"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"
"Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl is a 1950 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 52nd ""Tom and Jerry"" short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. The cartoon, as the title suggests, is set at the Hollywood Bowl in California, where Tom is conducting a large orchestra. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson and Ed Barge. It was released to theatres in September 16, 1950 and reissued on December 20, 1957. The music was scored by Scott Bradley, making use"
"The Egg and Jerry The Egg and Jerry is a 1956 one reel animated short, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It is a CinemaScope remake of 1949's ""Hatch Up Your Troubles"", and the first of the CinemaScope remakes of a few cartoons. The only aspects of the cartoon that differ from the original are that it is in a Widescreen format, the ink lines around the characters are thicker, and the backgrounds are more stylised. Also, the egg is white instead of pink, and Tom is missing the white fur stripe"
"Blue Cat Blues Blue Cat Blues is a 1956 one-reel animated ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoon directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It was released on November 16, 1956 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was also produced in CinemaScope. A depressed Tom sits on a railroad bridge, bent on suicide. Watching from overhead, Jerry laments his old friend's state and recalls the events leading up to Tom's depression. Tom and Jerry have been inseparable until Tom falls in love with a beautiful white female cat. The white cat initially reciprocates Tom's affections, but, as Jerry"
"on July 7, 1957, which went on to produce hit TV shows, such as ""The Flintstones"", ""Yogi Bear"", ""The Jetsons"" and Scooby-Doo. In 1961, MGM revived the ""Tom and Jerry"" franchise, and contracted European animation studio Rembrandt Films to produce 13 ""Tom and Jerry"" shorts in Prague, Czechoslovakia. All were directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder. Deitch himself wrote most of the cartoons, with occasional assistance from Larz Bourne and Eli Bauer. Stěpan Koniček provided the musical score for the Deitch shorts. Sound effects were produced by electronic music composer Tod Dockstader. The majority of vocal"
"both starred Judy Garland in a leading role. Generally, there is little dialogue as Tom and Jerry almost never speak; however, minor characters are not similarly limited, and the two lead characters are able to speak English on rare occasions and are thus not mute. For example, the character Mammy Two Shoes has lines in nearly every cartoon in which she appears. Most of the vocal effects used for Tom and Jerry are their high-pitched laughs and gasping screams. Before 1954, all ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons were produced in the standard Academy ratio and format; in 1954 and 1955, some"
"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"
"and Jerry"" cartoons had lost their appeal in the eyes of critics, due to weaker stories and simplistic animation, brought on as the result of budget-cutting problems. To keep the studio alive, MGM had begun reissuing previously released cartoons since the 1940s, but in late 1956 decided that, since the reissued shorts brought in as much revenue as the new shorts, it could save six hundred thousand dollars a year by ending new production. Most of the reissued cartoons were Tom and Jerry, Droopy, and shorts featuring Tex Avery's showgirl, Red. None of Tex Avery's Screwy Squirrel and George and"
"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"
"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"""
"in the series. A total of 48 seven-minute New Tom & Jerry cartoons were produced in 1975 and originally aired in these following formats on ABC Saturday morning: Immediately following the end of the original ABC run, these cartoons were edited within the main and end title credits and added to run with theatrical-era MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1940 to 1967 for syndication by MGM until 1986 (H-B retained ancillary rights to the ""Mumbly"" and ""Grape Ape"" segments, with syndication rights to those segments going to Worldvision Enterprises from 1979 until 1991). The show was aired on WASEC's"
"The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show is an American animated television program produced by Filmation for MGM Television in 1980, on CBS for Saturday mornings. The show lasted two seasons (with season two consisting of reruns) and the individual episodes were eventually added to syndicated ""Tom and Jerry"" packages. Most voices were done by Frank Welker (mainly Tom and Jerry) and Filmation head Lou Scheimer provided the voice of Nibbles (erroneously giving him an adult voice). This was the second made-for-television ""Tom and Jerry"" production. The series was notable in being the first attempt"
"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"
"of his ears. Laserdisc DVD Two Little Indians Two Little Indians is the 78th one reel animated ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoon released, created in 1952 directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ray Patterson, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Ed Barge with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It was released to theaters on October 17, 1953 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The cartoon opens with two young mice, both resembling Nibbles, dressed as Indians (one with a blue feather, the other, red) and walking toward Jerry's house. They"
"Spike and Tyke Spike & Tyke is a theatrical animated short subject series, based upon the American bulldog father-and-son team from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry cartoons. Only two films were made in this spin-off series: ""Give and Tyke"" and ""Scat Cats"", both finished in 1956 and released in 1957, and produced in CinemaScope and Technicolor, as the cartoon studio shut down the year the spin-off series was started. The cartoons were produced and directed by ""Tom and Jerry"" creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and were among the last of the original MGM theatrical cartoons made. The studio was shut"
"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"
"with seven of the Tom and Jerry shorts going on to win the Academy Award: ""The Yankee Doodle Mouse"" (1943), ""Mouse Trouble"" (1944), ""Quiet Please!"" (1945), ""The Cat Concerto"" (1946), ""The Little Orphan"" (1948), ""The Two Mouseketeers"" (1951), and ""Johann Mouse"" (1952). Tom and Jerry was eventually tied with ""Disney's Silly Symphonies"" as the most-awarded theatrical cartoon series. Hanna and Barbera also produced/directed for ""MGM cartoon studio"" half a dozen ""one-shot theatrical shorts"" besides ""Tom and Jerry series"", including ""Gallopin' Gals"" (1940), ""Officer Pooch"" (1941), ""War Dogs"" (1943) and ""Good Will to Men"" (1955). Fred Quimby retired in 1955, with"