Kurzbeschreibung
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Tom and Jerry, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Red Hot Riding Hood, The Bear That Wasn't, The House of Tomorrow, The Early Bird Dood It!, The Cat That Hated People, War Dogs, Little 'Tinker, Who Killed Who?, The Dot and the Line, Bad Luck Blackie, Peace on Earth, Swing Shift Cinderella, The Shooting Of Dan McGoo, Little Rural Riding Hood, List of one-shot Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated shorts, One Droopy Knight, The First Bad Man, Jerky Turkey, Fiddlesticks, Wild And Woolfy, Swing Wedding, To Spring, Symphony in Slang, Slap Happy Lion, Ventriloquist Cat, Honeyland, Bosko's Parlor Pranks, Bottles. Excerpt: Tom and Jerry is an American series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry shorts at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood, California between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film seven times, tying it with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated series with the most Oscars. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience that consists of children, teenagers and adults, and has also been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema. In 2000, TIME named the series one of the greatest television shows of all time. Beginning in 1960, in addition to the original 114 H-B cartoons, MGM had new shorts produced by Rembrandt Films, led by Gene Deitch in Eastern Europe. Production of Tom and Jerry shorts returned to Hollywood under Chu...