The Night Before Christmas (1941)

Directed by

William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, comedy drama, family film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 93 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

On Christmas Eve, Tom tries to stop Jerry from getting into the Christmas tree and goodies. The two get into a series of escalating fights with holiday decorations and traps.

whimsicalplayfulchaoticslapstickfestivelightheartedfast-pacedmildly tense

What happens

The Night Before Christmas is a 1941 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the third Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby and animated by Jack Zander, George Gordon, Irven Spence and Bill Littlejohn. It was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but lost to the Mickey Mouse short film Lend a Paw, making it the only Tom and Jerry cartoon to lose to a Disney film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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