The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (1962)

Directed by

Gene Deitch

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film pokes fun at the standard formula and violence of the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Tom and Jerry train in judo and compete in a contest to break things, trying to outdo each other with escalating stunts.

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What happens

The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit is a 123rd episode in Tom and Jerry animated action comedy short film, produced and released on August 10, 1962. It was the ninth cartoon in a series of thirteen to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. It updates its copyright to the current year 1962 as opposed to the 1961 copyright of Dicky Moe. The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit is a sarcastic attack on the series as a whole and its formulaic approach, which the short mocks as excessively violent and designed solely for profit. Deitch had strongly divergent views on animation compared to Tom and Jerry's creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, that he openly expressed throughout his lifetime. The film has a martial arts theme. Jerry Mouse and Tom Cat train in judo and then hold a breaking contest, in which each tries to outdo the other. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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