Quiet Please! (1945)
- 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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Sleepy-Time Tom (1951)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.