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Quiet Please! (1945)

Quiet Please! poster
Directed by
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Genre
comedy film, family film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 73 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Tom chases Jerry in a house while a sleepy bulldog named Spike tries to nap. Spike warns Tom to keep quiet, but Jerry schemes to wake Spike up, forcing Tom to stop him.

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What happens

Quiet Please! is a 1945 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 22nd Tom and Jerry short. It was produced by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with the music score by Scott Bradley. It was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, and Ed Barge. Harvey Eisenberg worked as the layout artist and Robert Gentle functioned as the background artist. Both were uncredited. Quiet Please! won the 1945 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, Tom and Jerry's third consecutive award. Quiet Please! was released on December 22, 1945, with the reissue being released on March 28, 1953. In this short, Spike, whose nap is being interrupted by Tom's racket while chasing Jerry, warns Tom not to wake him up. Overhearing this, Jerry tries to wake Spike up in various ways, forcing Tom to stop him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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