just about every other cbs version of tom and jerry cartoons had mammy in white. [7] When asked for an interview request, a Warner Bros. spokesperson said “The company felt that certain content would be inappropriate for the intended audience and therefore excluded several shorts. I checked the book again for the time period of when she worked – and she worked at the studio from 1946 to 1949.

Then, it showed up on VHS tape and on laserdisk, but we’re still waiting for it on DVD, and it was supposed to open the next set, chronologically, followed by “POLKA DOT PUSS” and “PECK UP YOUR TROUBLES”, if the laserdisk compilations are correct. Richard Bickenbach painted backgrounds In a great piece of character animation, after noticing his wash towel covered in ink, he covers his face, hoping that his oversight has not ruined the wall. Who knew you could get away with making a gag about a horse doing his business in a house?

[6] Many collectors and fans proceeded to post negative reviews of the product on Amazon and other various websites in protest. Regarding your upcoming project, wow, I can only respond with my memory of one character who represented early silent and sound comedy in his facial expressions and body language, and that character is Barney Bear or even Papa Bear in Hugh Harman’s THREE BEARS cartoons. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on December 11, 1948, by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and again on February 17, 1956. And i so rmbr, (so vividly) when CBS aired it. As animated by Ray Patterson, this doesn’t last long when Tom is seen splashing into a mud puddle while gaining traction to chase Jerry. In a wonderful layout that is amusing because of how dramatic it appears in Tom’s eyes, his owner wobbles out of the shadows with grocery bags under her arms. A Hash (#) indicates that the cartoon has been previously seen on Academy Awards Animation Collection DVD set.

I, too, remember the altered portions of this cartoon shown as part of the first airing of these theatrical cartoons on Saturday morning. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. To end such a precarious situation with a flourish, musical composer Scott Bradley adds a nice musical touch with successive notes as the eggs fall into the carton. ), “In a great piece of character animation, when Tom realizes his error of noticing the wash towel covered in ink, he covers his face in shame for a few seconds.”.

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Color models were by Vonnie Adamson Shaffer Cat got your tongue? If this info is incorrect please inform me and I will update it. Evidently, in his free time at the studio, Bill Hanna ran most of Avery’s upcoming cartoons to study them, frame-by-frame, on a Moviola in the hope to achieve similar effects.