Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is a American animated television series around a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry), produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and written and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

The series is one of the most popular animation sequences in the world.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == From 1940 to 1958 were 114- Tom and Jerrycartoons produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in Hollywood and the movie studio was closed. At that time the cartoons, like all animation films from that time, in the cinema turned. This 114 cartoons are considered timeless classics and are still very popular worldwide. Seven of them were with Academy Award for best animated short film award-winning Tom & Jerry, which just under Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies comes as the animation sequence that most Oscars won.
 * 2 Plots
 * 3 Characters
 * 3.1 Tom and Jerry
 * 3.2 other characters
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 see also
 * 6 external links
 * Tom and Jerry-the entire history is usually divided into 7 periods:
 * Hanna-Barbera era (1940-1958)
 * Gene Deitch era (1961-1962)
 * Chuck Jones era (1963-1967)
 * Later Hanna-Barbera-period (1975)
 * Filmation Associates (1980)
 * Hanna Barbera Studios (1990-1993)
 * Warner Brothers (1993-present)

Tom & Jerry got afterwards many sequels: in 1960 gave MGM Tom and Jerry to the production of Rembrandt Films (directed by Gene Deitch) in Eastern Europe. The result was a series of very cheap produced and surreal animated films. Three years later, the production back to Hollywood, where Chuck Jones to 1967 for Sib-Tower 12 Productions new episodes directed. In 1975 came a new Tom & Jerry Show in which the pair had entered peace; this to great disappointment of many. There followed various attempts to revive the old series, but the first 114 cartoons from the period 1940-1957 are generally considered the best and remain the most popular. ==Suddenly[ Edit] == The plots of the short films revolve mostly around Toms frustrating attempts to catch Jerry and the wild violence that comes with it. Both Tom and Jerry are equally sadistic facing each other, but however there are the same number of times to indicate in the movies where they still pretty getting along well. As a result, it is unclear why Tom chases Jerry, but so often the most obvious reasons are probably: 1. Their cat-and-mouse relationship, 2. Because Toms bazin this recommends, 3. competition with another cat or 4. Pure harassment. It succeeds Tom sometimes to catch Jerry, usually because Jerry allows himself or by luck.

The original series is notorious for her very violent gags: Jerry cuts Tom in half, hold his head between a window or a door, stops his tail in a waffle iron or a wall outlet. Tom used axes, guns, dynamite, bats and poisonto kill Jerry can (for some reason, he seems to want to eat Jerry only rarely). A running gag is that Jerry Tom hurts while he's not paying attention and Tom this pain until several seconds later realizes.

The music and sound effects play an important role in the short movies and contribute to the humor and the action. Musical Director Scott Bradley made a mix of jazz, classical and pop music.

Before 1953 were all Tom and Jerrycartoons produced in the standard Academy ratio; from 1953 to 1956 it was sometimes the Academy ratio and sometimes the widescreen CinemaScope. From 1956 to the closure ofMGM a year later, all Tom and Jerrycartoons produced in CinemaScope; Some were even recorded with a stereo soundtrack. The short movies of Gene Deitch and Chuck Jones in the 60 's were all produced in Academy format. All Hanna-Barbera cartoons glorifying were produced in Technicolor, the mini-movies in the 1960s in Metrocolor. ==Characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Tom and Jerry<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tom is a blue-gray House cat (most likely a Russian Blue), which has a bug's life, while Jerry is a small, Brown mouse who lives in the same House. Tom is aggressive, selfish and harassing. Jerry can also come out of the corner, sadistic but is usually much more intelligent than Tom. Usually wins Jerry of Tom. Yet there is also a relationship between them. In some movies they save each other in case of emergency, danger or a mutual problem.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tom & Jerry speak as good as never. The other supporting roles usually does. Still, there are times when we hear Tom talk. In Zoot Cat (1944) we hear him talking and in Solid Serenade (1946) we hear him sing a serenade: Louis Jordans Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby. Co-Director William Hanna took care of the other sounds of the duo, including Toms famous scream (recorded by the beginning and end of Hanna's cry from the soundtrack so that only the loudest portion was left). ===Other characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In his attempts to catch Jerry, Tom sometimes gets to do with Butch (a black Alley Cat that Jerry wants to catch and eat them), Spike (sometimes called "Killer" or "Butch", an angry guard dog/Bulldog which is usually Tom tries to scare and friendly is against Jerry), Toms girlfriend and Mammy Two Shoes, an African-American cleaning lady and/or in some movies the owner of the House. The face of Mammy Two Shoes is never displayed. From 1952, she was first by a typical 50 's-plug replaced and afterwards by a thin, strict woman who protects against Tom and Jerry in a custom version of Saturday Evening Puss. The movies with Mammy were later re-recorded with an Irish accent.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the end of the 1940s was a little gray mouse that Jerry adopted foundling, named Nibbles (also called called Tuffy ). Other than Jerry could he talk. During the 50 's Spike got a son named Tyke, which led to Spike a softer character and got a spinoffseries (Spike and Tyke). Another character was Quaker the Duck, who later formed the inspiration for Jacky Doodle . ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In the first episode Puss Gets the Boot (1940) are still called Tom and Jerry Jasper respectively and Jinx.
 * In the American satirical animated television series The Simpsons is The Itchy & Scratchy Show an exaggerated parody on gory Tom & Jerry.
 * In Germany are the movies with a rhymed voiceover.
 * The names are derived from the names from the Second World War for the Germans (Jerries) and the English (Tommies).