Tom and Jerry is an American animated franchise and collection of comedy brief films created in 1940 via William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best recognised for its 161 theatrical short films by means of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series facilities at the rivalry among the titular characters of a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry. Many shorts additionally characteristic numerous habitual characters.
In its unique run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry shorts for MGM from 1940 to 1958.[1] During this time, they won seven Academy Awards for Animated Short Film, tying for first area with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies with the maximum awards inside the class. After the MGM cartoon studio closed in 1957, MGM revived the series with Gene Deitch directing an extra thirteen Tom and Jerry shorts for Rembrandt Films from 1961 to 1962. Tom and Jerry then have become the highest-grossing animated short movie collection of that point, overtaking Looney Tunes. Chuck Jones then produced another 34 shorts with Sib Tower 12 Productions between 1963 and 1967. Three more shorts had been produced, The Mansion Cat in 2001, The Karate Guard in 2005, and A Fundraising Adventure in 2014, making a complete of 164 shorts.
A range of spin-offs have been made, inclusive of the television collection The Tom and Jerry Show (1975), The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980–1982), Tom & Jerry Kids (1990–1993), Tom and Jerry Tales (2006–2008), and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014–gift). The first characteristic-length film primarily based at the collection, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, was released in 1992, and 13 direct-to-video movies were produced seeing that 2002, with an upcoming live-movement/animated hybrid film to be launched in 2021. A musical version of the collection, titled Tom and Jerry: Purr-Chance to Dream, debuted in Japan in 2019 earlier of Tom and Jerry's 80th anniversary.
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