Mouse Cleaning (1948)

Directed by

Joseph Barbera

Genre

animation, comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 41 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.

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How it feels

Tom the cat tries to clean the house but Jerry the mouse keeps making messes. They chase each other around and cause more trouble.

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What happens

Mouse Cleaning is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and the 38th Tom and Jerry short. The title is a play on "house cleaning". It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on December 11, 1948, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and again on February 18, 1956. It was animated by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson, who were the usual animators for the Tom and Jerry cartoons in the early 1940s up until the late 1950s. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera; both men were not credited. The music was scored by Scott Bradley and the backgrounds were created by Robert Gentle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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