
In 1972, the Arab state Sharjah issued a set of Tom and Jerry postage stamps.This blog post is about how Tom and Jerry got its name, but it’s not really about Tom and Jerry.
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The Tom and Jerry series was made in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who also created beloved shows like Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, The Flintstones, etc.It is directed by Tim Story and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Ken Jeong, and Rob Delaney. This film will be a blend of live-action and animation.
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and it plans to release a new movie before Christmas this year to honour the 80 years of our favourite cat and mouse. Their popularity led to a series of spinoff shows, including The Tom and Jerry Show in 1975, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show in 1980, Tom & Jerry Kids in 1990, Tom and Jerry Tales in 2006, and The Tom and Jerry Show, which debuted in 2014 and is still airing new episodes.Ĭurrently, the cartoon rights to Tom and Jerry are owned by Warner Bros. Tom and Jerry went on to star in 164 animated shorts produced by MGM, winning seven Academy Awards for Animated Short Film. William Hanna passed away in 2001, and Joseph Barbera passed away five years later in 2006. China has even invented the eponymous mobile phone game that has more than 100 million users.įour years ago, an Egyptian official tried to blame a cartoon for the rise in violence in the Middle East, while the Iranian leader compared the country's relations with the US as Tom and Jerry's. Still, Tom and Jerry are popular around the world today. Hanna and Barbera considered Tom and Jerry "the best of enemies", whose rivalry hid an unspoken amount of mutual respect but in Tom and Jerry 1975, they were friends. His team made 34 cartoons between 19.īy 1970, many of the first episodes of Tom and Jerry began to be considered violent, after that they made episodes where the cat and the mouse were friends, but those episodes never achieved success as the original.

The production was moved to Prague due to cost reductions in 1961, with animator Jean Deitch supposed to lead the production, but lacking budget or staff.Īfter him, the production was taken over by Chuck Jones, whose animators made Tom with stronger eyebrows and a distorted face. However, a few years later, MGM decided to revive Tom and Jerry, but without the original authors.

In its original run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry shorts for MGM from 1940 to 1958.Īfter MGM closed the animation studio in 1957, Hanna and Barbera started their production company. Over the next 20 years, Hannah and Barbera oversaw the production of more than 100 short cat and mouse cartoons and each took weeks to make and cost $50,000 each, making only a few popular cartoons each year. The music for the cartoon was composed by Scott Bradley and Tom's famous human-like scream was vocalised by William Hanna himself. According to Barbera, there was not much discussion about whether the characters would talk, but with the great success of silent films with Charlie Chaplin, the authors knew that the characters could be fun and without dialogue.
