The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943)

Directed by

William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Genre

propaganda film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 68 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse chase each other around a house. They use household items like pots and pans to act out World War II style battles with jeeps and dive bombers.

playfulcartoonishwittyslapsticklight-heartednostalgicinventivefast-paced

What happens

The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon in Technicolor. It is the eleventh Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby, and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Irven Spence, Pete Burness, Kenneth Muse and George Gordon. Jack Zander was credited on the original print, but his credit was omitted in the 1950 reissue. It was released to theaters on June 26, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The short features Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse chasing each other in a pseudo-warfare style, and makes numerous references to World War II technology such as jeeps and dive bombers, represented by clever uses of common household items. The Yankee Doodle Mouse won the 1943 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, making it the first of seven Tom and Jerry cartoons to receive this distinction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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