
The shorts of Tom & Jerry have had the most violence ever in he field of animation though it never involved blood or gore in any scenes. In most cases Tom is unable to catch Jerry simply because Jerry is smarter and more cunning than Tom. In some shorts they both are seen as going along very well and there is no particular reason shown as to why Tom is always desperately chasing Jerry all the time but irrespective of the reason the chase given by Tom to Jerry has always been admired by viewers. In each short Tom is shown trying unsuccessfully trying to catch Jerry. Their first appearance was in “Puss Gets the Boot”. The shorts of Tom & Jerry were written, and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Tom and Jerry together form an Academy Award winning pair of a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry). Various Tom and Jerry movies have also been released such as ‘Tom and Jerry: The Movie’, ‘Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring’, ‘Tom and Jerry: Blast Off To Mars’, ‘Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry’ and ‘Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale’. Since then, Tom and Jerry cartoons have been airing on television everyday in India, Germany, South East Asia, the Middle East, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Venezuela, other Latin American countries and in eastern European countries. It started broadcasting in Japan in 1964.

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The series were translated into various foreign languages, since it had almost no dialogues. Eventually, she was replaced by a fat White Irish woman, as in ‘Saturday Evening Puss’. The Jones series featured Mammy Two-Shoes. The year 1965 saw the Hanna and Barbera cartoon series airing on television, in heavily edited form. Jerry got larger eyes and ears, a lighter brown color and a sweeter Porky Pig-like expression. The main characters were given a changed appearance, with Tom getting thicker eyebrows, a less complex look, sharper ears and furrier cheeks. Cartoons, started his own animation studio and produced a total of 34 Tom and Jerry shorts. In the early 1963, Chuck Jones, who was fired from Warner Bros. These episodes were not very favorably received by the general audience. A total of 13 shorts were released under this contract. In 1960, Czech-based animation director, Gene Deitch from Rembrandt Films was contracted by MGM to produce new Tom and Jerry shorts.
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Later, Hanna and Barbera opened up their own television studio, Hanna-Barbera Productions, in 1957 and went on to produce various famous TV shows and movies. The final shot of Hanna and Barbera was ‘Tot Watchers’, which released on August 1, 1958, after the MGM cartoon studio closed down in 1957.

Though the original theme of the series, cat chases mouse, remained the same, Hanna and Barbera came up with numerous variations on this theme. The series developed into a quicker, more energetic tone.

The physical appearances of both Tom and Jerry were evolved over the years. The main protagonist, Tom was a blue-grey longhair cat while Jerry, the second protagonist, was a small & brown, house mouse. The series went into production and eventually, Hanna and Barbera went on to direct only the cat-and-mouse cartoon, for the rest of their tenure at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Animator John Carr won the contest, with his suggestion of Tom and Jerry. Having lost to another MGM cartoon at the Academy Awards, Hanna and Barbera held a contest to give the cat and mouse a new name and look. The first cartoon was titled ‘Puss Gets the Boot’ and it released in theatres on February 10, 1940. Joseph Barbera, a storyman and character designer, paired up with an experienced director, William Hanna to create a cat-and-mouse cartoon.
