A screenshot from 1945’sthe first Tom and Jerry cartoon.
The pessimistic attitude towards the cat and mouse duo changed when the cartoon comeout a favorite with theatre watcher and with the which nominated the film for the best Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons of 1941. It lost to another MGM cartoon, Rudolph Ising's
Producer Fred Quimby, who ran the MGM animation studio, quickly pulled Hanna and Barbera of the many one-shot cartoons they were working at, and commissioned a series featuring the cat and mouse. Hanna and Barbera held on an intra-studio contest to give the pair a new name from drawing suggested names cameout of hat; animator jhon carr won his suggestion of Tom and Jerry. The Tom and Jerry series went into production with The Midnight Snackin 1941, and Hanna and Barbera rarely directed manything but the cat-and-mouse cartoons for the rest of their tenure at Metro Goldwyen Myer.
Tom's physical appearance evolved significantly over the years. Reached the early 1940s, Tom had an excess of detail full--shaggy fur, numerous facial and multiple eyebrow markings—And all of which were streamlined into a more workable form the end of the 1940s- and looked like a realistic cat; in addition from his quadrupedal beginnings Tom became increasingly, and eventually almost exclusively, bipedal. By contrast, Jerry's design remained essentially the same category for the duration of the series. By the mid-1940s, the series had developed a quicker, more the energetic (and violent) tone, due to the inspiration from the work of the colleague in the MGM cartoon studio who joined the studio in 1942.
Tom and Jerry in the 1946 Academy Award winning cartoon
Even though the theme of every short is virtually the same - cat chases mouse - Hanna and Barbera found endless varia ions at that theme. Barbera's storyboards and rough layouts and designs, combined with Hanna's timing, resulted in MGM's most popular and successful cartoon series. Thirteen entries in the Tom and Jerry series (including Puss Gets The Boot) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons; seven of them went on to win the Academy Award, breaking the winning streak in that category. Tom and Jerry won more and many Academy Awards than any other character-based theatrical animated series.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
History of Tom And Jerry
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