« Tom and Jerry» (Tom and Jerry) is one of the most famous animated series, a funny story about the endless chases and fights between Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse.

The plot of the animated series Tom and Jerry / Tom and Jerry

From time immemorial, cats have been chasing mice, and, as a rule, for the latter, these pursuits end in failure. American animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera decided to correct this injustice and give the opportunity to the little mouse Jerry drawn by them to avenge the entire mouse family by inventing the animated series "Tom and Jerry". Thanks to his agility, resourcefulness and cunning, Jerry does not give in to the meowing brethren in the person of Tom - a rustic house cat who has a warm corner, a soft pillow and a bowl in which there is always something tasty. But Tom doesn’t let him live a quiet life (that is, purr with pleasure when he is scratched behind his ear, sleep almost around the clock, tear his claws on the master’s furniture, yell at the top of his cat’s throat in the spring) is that a slicker lives under the same roof with him Jerry, always slipping out of the cat's clawed paws.

Starting from the very first episode, which was released almost 70 years ago, Tom has been trying to catch Jerry, but to no avail: the nimble rodent deftly avoids the traps set up by Tom, managing to give another portion of a slap in the face to his offender.

In whatever conditions the cat had to chase the mouse, leaving destruction and chaos around him: in the house, and in the yard, and on the street, on the deck of the ship, and at the construction site, and on the tennis court, and in the billiard room, and on the beach , and in concert hall, and on the snow-covered slopes of the mountains, and on the roof of a skyscraper, in Mexico and France, in the past and in the future, and even in space!

Secondary characters of the animated series Tom and Jerry / Tom and Jerry

In addition to the main characters, in the series " Tom and Jerry other characters appear from time to time. These are the bulldogs dad and son Spike and Tyke, Tom's street cat friend Butch, the neighbor's cat Toodles, the mistress of the house where the "sweet couple" lives, the orphan mouse Tuffy Nibbles, gold fish Goldie, the depressive but brave Quacker duck, various relatives Tom and Jerry. Many of them become allies of Jerry in his opposition to Tom, some side with the cat, while the rest are present for a change.

It also happens that one of the members of the duet is in serious danger from the outside, and then, despite the age-old enmity, the "partner" will definitely come to the aid of the poor fellow. After all, for both the meaning of life lies in chasing each other.

The history of the animated series Tom and Jerry / Tom and Jerry

For the first time, the audience saw funny fights and fuss of the drawn cat and mouse on February 20, 1940, but then they were called not Tom and Jerry, but Jasper and Jinx, but the name of the cartoon Puss Gets The Boot (“The cat gets a boot” or “The cat gets a kick”) is a modified version of Puss In The Boots, the title of Charles Perrault's tale Puss in Boots.

For almost 70 years, more than 250 episodes of the TV series "Tom and Jerry" have been filmed.

Cartoon " Tom and Jerry"released at different studios (MGM, Rembrandt Films, Sib Tower 12, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Turner Entertainment / Warner Brothers), its format has changed several times - from no more than 10-minute episodes to half-hour TV shows, TV programs and feature films. The best forces of animated Hollywood took part in its creation: composer Scott Bradley, animators Irving Spence, Kenneth Mews, Ray Patterson, Ed Barge and, of course, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera themselves (the latter also acted as a screenwriter), producer Fred Quimby.

Tom and Jerry Animated Series Awards

13 times the animated series "Tom and Jerry" was nominated for an Oscar, of which seven times the couple received the coveted gilded statuette ("Patriot Mouse" / Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), "Mice and Problems with Them" / Mouse Trouble ( 1944), "Quiet Hour" / Quiet Please (1945), "Cat Concert" / The Cat Concerto (1946), "Orphan" / The Little Orphan (1948), "Two Mouseketeers" / The Two Mouseketeers (1952) and " Mouse Johann "/ Johann Mouse (1952).

In addition to the animated series Tom and Jerry”, the Hanna-Barbera creative tandem also created the animated series The Flintstones, Wally Gator, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, Johnny Quest, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends and others.

Interesting facts about the animated series Tom and Jerry / Tom and Jerry

In most episodes of the animated series "Tom and Jerry" Jerry wins, in 8 episodes Tom wins, in 20 episodes both heroes win, in 12 episodes Tom and Jerry both lose.

Tom and Jerry can read. AT free time Jerry is reading some books (in the Orphan series you can even see the title of the book - Good Mousekeeping), and Tom is reading newspapers. In addition, in one episode of the animated series " Tom and Jerry Jerry himself wrote a book about his life with Tom, and also kept his own diary, the lines from which were most often referred to previous episodes. In the same episode, we learn that both Spike and Tom's friends, street cats, can read.

Tom and Jerry can play the piano. In The Cat Concerto, Tom performs at the Hollywood Bowl and plays the piano. Jerry joins in and plays from inside the piano, on the strings. In addition, Tom can conduct an entire orchestra and even replace it by one, playing both violins and trumpets at the same time. He also plays the double bass and sings serenades.

Jerry has a diploma of higher pedagogical education. Using the significance of this document, he tries to teach Taffy to survive in the same house with Tom, in particular, to steal food from him.

Tom also has relatives, for example, like cousin George, who looks like him, who suffers from the fact that he is terribly afraid of mice. True, he later overcame his phobia by uniting with Tom in one figure and frightening Jerry.

As a rule, neither Tom nor Jerry in the animated series " Tom and Jerry" do not speak. But there are rare exceptions when there is a full-fledged, although, as a rule, short conversation.

Sound music plays important role in the animated series Tom and Jerry”, emphasizing the action and giving the episode appropriate emotions. Each movement of the characters corresponds to a musical passage.

The very first cartoon in 1940 Puss Gets the Boot produced Rudolf Aising(Rudolf Ising) - one of the leaders of the MGM animation department at the time. In the first cartoon, the cat's name was Jasper, and the mouse was called Jinx (eng. Jinx - bringing misfortune).

Russian voice acting of the animated series Tom and Jerry / Tom and Jerry

In 2006–2007, by order of the STS TV channel, all the legendary short films were translated into voice-overs. They were engaged in the following duets:
Dmitry Filimonov and Marina Ovchinnikova;
Oleg Kutsenko (in some episodes Alexander Gruzdev) and Lyudmila Gnilova;
Nikita Prozorovsky and Olga Shorokhova;
Svetlana Domanova and Alexey Kuznetsov - Baibako.tv (episode 1 Puss Gets the Boot) - this voice acting was not approved by the fans of the animated series.

The main cathedral church of the Christ Church (Christ Church Cathedral) in the city of Dublin was founded in 1030, then it was rebuilt and completed, as was usually the case in those days. In general, it turned out to be quite a decent cathedral, if you wish, you can look at the photo gallery from some Czech tourist, but today we are interested in the organ installed in it.

When exactly this organ was installed, we do not know, but it is known that in 1595 a certain John Fermor was the organist. Let us assume that the organ and the organist appeared at the same time.

And in 1860, while cleaning the organ, a dead cat and a rat were found in one of its pipes. In all likelihood, during the chase, they all got stuck in the pipe. Thanks to the dry holy church air, their bodies dried up and became mummified. How long they stayed there - no one knows, but maybe all 265 years.

Now "Tom" and "Jerry" are on display in the crypt along with other exhibits.

Let's remember the story of the original cartoon:

The Tom and Jerry cartoon series was produced at Metro Goldwin Mayer Studios in Hollywood from 1940 until it closed in 1958. In early 1961, MGM sold all rights to the cartoon to Prague's Rembrandt Films, with Gene Deitch in charge. Rembrandt Films was able to release 13 episodes, which were unsuccessfully called the worst of all the time the cartoon was created. The failure was due to the fact that all the gestures in the cartoon were at too high a speed, which made it impossible to see the characters themselves and spoiled the feeling of the cartoon. The voice acting was done with ambient music with cosmic effects that no one ever understood. All dialogue was slurred. And by 1963, Tom and Jerry production returned to its homeland, to Hollywood, now at Sib-Tower 12 Productions with Chuck Jones as its head, which lasted until 1967. The rights to create the series also returned to Hanna-Barbera Studios (1975-1977; 1990-1993), and then went to Filmation Studios (1990-1992). Warner Bros. in 2005 she released her own series - "The KarateGuard".

The first series of cartoons released by MGM between 1940 and 1958 were recognized as the most outstanding, and were also awarded seven times the Academy Award.

Biographies of Tom and Jerry

"Tom and Jerry as a child"

"Tom and Jerry" is a favorite cartoon of all times and peoples, and for sure every viewer wondered how these two characters met and what their childhood was like. In 1990, the light saw the series called "Tom and Jerry in childhood", which was directed by Robert Alvarez. Jerry is immediately recognizable in this cartoon, but Tom is difficult to recognize, since he is represented there as a small and vicious kitten with a terrible character.

failures

Several moments in the making of the film are unfortunate. Firstly, the viewer remains at a loss as to what exactly these two characters did not share - the initial reason for the enmity is unclear. Secondly, in the old cartoon, where Tom and Jerry are already adults, the lifestyle of the 40-60s is reproduced, and in the new series, despite the youth of the characters, you can see modern household items. Thirdly, the house in which the cat and the mouse live is constantly changing: Tom lives either with a black mistress, who is distinguished by the fullness of her forms, or with a slender white-skinned woman, or generally lives in a separate house.

A qualitatively new phenomenon in the history of this fun and adored cartoon was the release in the same 1990 of the animated series The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, in which the animation style remained unchanged, but was presented absolutely new format: the episodes were half an hour long and consisted of a selection of several funny episodes. It was also a novelty that new characters appeared in the cartoon: a strict and demanding bulldog named Spike and a cheerful cartoon host Dog, nicknamed Droopy.

The best animators worked on the creation of this unique animated series, who were actively involved in William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, for whom Tom and Jerry was their favorite brainchild. Among the well-known animators who have contributed to this cartoon, it is worth noting such as Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irving Spence, Kenneth Mews. The script for many episodes was written by Joseph Barbera himself. However, these two producers did not stand at the very origins of the creation of the cartoon. Initially, back in 1940, when the first series of the cartoon was released, it was produced by Rudolf Eising, who at that time headed MGM (the animation department). And after that, until 1955, the cartoon was produced by Fred Quimby, who later left the animation. Few people know that in the very first version of the cartoon, the characters had completely different names - Jasper (cat) and Jinx (mouse).

Tom and Jerry even appeared in films: in 1945, Jerry talks and dances with Kelly in the film Anchors Aweigh. This original animation was done by Ray Patterson and Kenneth Mewes.

Stages of creating Tom and Jerry

How did the cartoon "Tom and Jerry" appear in Russia? Several stages can be distinguished:

• In spite of a good relationship The USSR and the USA in the pre-war years, the first series of the cartoon were not broadcast in Russia.
• The appearance of the series on Soviet television screens occurred only in the 80s with the appearance on the market of pirated video cassettes with low-quality recordings, monophonic translation performed by Alexander Gottlieb, Maxim Oshurkov, Alexander Dubrovin.
• In 1993, the cartoon began to be broadcast on TV-6, as the co-owner of this channel was the US media mogul Ted Turner, along with cartoons about the sailor-traveler Popeye and Warner Bros. short films.
• In the mid-90s, the Russians were shown the cartoon "Tom and Jerry as a Child" on the NTV channel;
• In the late 90s, "Tom and Jerry" was broadcast in the cartoon block along with such series as "The Jetsons" and "The Flintstones" on TNT and STS channels.
• 2001 - broadcast on the RTR channel.

On the given period time, almost all channels broadcast a cartoon that is loved by Russian children and adults. On DVD, the cartoon is presented to the Russian audience in the translation of Yuri Zhivov.

In 1992, a long-awaited and very successful full-length cartoon was shot, in which new hero- Starling. The public did not immediately accept this version of the story of Tom and Jerry, since the full-length cartoon differed significantly from the usual style of their favorite series. The discovery of this cartoon was the fact that the whole cartoon characters are actively talking to each other.

New Tom and Jerry

More recently, Warner Bros. She announced that she plans to shoot a whole movie about Tom and Jerry, which will be created in accordance with the latest computer technology in the field of cinematography. Finally, the producers promised that this film would be a prequel that would tell how two irreconcilable enemies actually met. The producer of the future film is the legendary Dan Lin, who produced the well-known Terminator: May the Savior Come.

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Tom and Jerry is an American animated television series starring Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse. The release of the first cartoon series Puss Gets The Boots (which means "The cat got a boot in the ass") is dated February 4, 1940, and new adventure stories appear on television screens to this day. The founding fathers of Tom and Jerry are rightfully the American animators, completely unknown at the time, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Initially from 1940-1958. The cartoon was created at MGM Studios in Hollywood. The series released during this period are considered the standard of the animated series. The producer at that time was Fred Quimby, and the composer was Scott Bradley, who created a small musical masterpiece for each episode.

Fred Quimby and Scott Bradley.

Tom's artist was Irving Spence, who copied the gestures and facial expressions for his cartoon character from himself, standing in front of a mirror. And Jerry the mouse was drawn by Kenneth Mews. After 1958, the rights to create the cartoon were sold to Czechoslovakia, but already in 1963 the cartoon returned back to Hollywood, but to another studio that began to further produce the series: Sib-Tower 12 Productions by Chuck Jones.

The storyline of the cartoon lies in the eternal pursuit and constant rivalry between the two main characters - Tom (in the first series of Jasper) and Jerry (in the first series of Jinx, which in English means "bringing happiness"). From the second series, the cat and the mouse became familiar to us as Tom and Jerry, but the characters changed their appearance more than once.

Oscar-winning series. 1945 Tom & Jerry

But still, the series touches not only on the difficulties of catching a mouse, but also on serious problems. modern society. Apparently, the creators intended with the help of the cartoon to prepare little Americans for a difficult, adult life. The cartoon reveals such concepts as compassion, sympathy and mercy, faithful, reliable friends, mutual assistance, external threats, the search for a way out of an almost hopeless situation (the heroes come out of them easily, naturally and with a smile on their faces). And also love, struggle for it, love rivalry. Attitude towards sports classical music and, ultimately, to the world at large.

In addition to the cat Tom and Jerry Mouse, there are also minor characters that appear in one or the other series. These are, first of all, Spike (Bulldog) and his son Tyke the puppy, Tom's rival - the black street cat Butch, Goldie the fish, Quacker the duckling, Jerry's relatives: Uncle Pecos, who likes to play country music on the guitar and Jerry's cousin - Muscle ( used speaking name Muscle - from the English Muscles), as well as an orphan mouse, who was sheltered by Jerry - Tafii. Their names, in fact, no one really knows, since they are not mentioned at all in the cartoons.

But still, probably, the most mysterious hero is the mistress of Tom Mommy-Two-Slippers, who received such a name because she was depicted on the screens at half height, thereby emphasizing that the main characters in the cartoon are animals, not people.

Mommy-Two-Slippers

In the 1940s and 50s, Tom's mistress was a Negro, for which she was often criticized on the basis of racial discrimination. But still, W. Hanna and D. Barbera were forced to change Tom's mistress to a white woman - this was due to internal politics United States, when racial discrimination was made illegal in 1954. And after 12 years, Tom had no owners at all. No, he was not kicked out of the house, this character simply ceased to be relevant.

Despite this, the cartoon characters are endowed with human abilities: they can read, love, play sport games(tennis, golf), know how to kindle a fire and cook food on it, play musical instruments, sing serenades, conduct an orchestra, etc. etc.

Tom & Jerry - Mouse Trouble (Mouse Trouble). Oscar 1944.

The cartoon is unique in that the characters do not speak at all in the frame, but the audience understands every movement, every intention, and even every thought of the characters. And all thanks to the excellent facial expressions, gestures, emotions and facial expressions that their Fathers-Creators endowed the heroes with.

The unique facial expressions of the characters.

But in 1955, producer Fred Quimby ended his work at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studio, and until 1958 Joseph Barabara was the producer. And in 1958, Hanna and Barbera make the unexpected decision to close the animation department at MGM and open their own independent cartoon studio.

And after 1958, the quality of animated films deteriorated. The best cartoons are considered to be those that were created at the MGM studio, during the Golden Years (Golden Years) from 1940-1958. Cartoons of these years were awarded the Oscar 7 times. It is: 1943: The Yankee Doodle Mouse. It was the first Oscar. It is interesting that the cartoon was awarded for patriotism, since the award took place during the Second World War, and at the end of the cartoon the cat Tom takes off into the sky on a rocket, which bursts to form an American flag in the sky. Further Oscar awards went to the series: Mouse Trouble (1944), Silence Please! (1945), Cat Concerto (1946), Little Orphan (1948), The Two Mouseketeers (1951) and Johanna Maus (1952).

Tom & Jerry - Johann Mouse. 1952 Series that won the last Oscar.

Also, several other series were nominated for an Oscar, but did not receive their awards. Even the Walt Disney studio could not achieve this tremendous success. And in 1976, W. Hanna and D. Barbera received their star on the Walk of Fame for outstanding achievements in the field of animation.

Tom and Jerry won 7 Oscars.

The Tom and Jerry brand has become very popular in the world. Full-length films, television programs, video games, comics, and other short cartoons ("Tom and Jerry as a Child", for example) have been released with the same name. The phrase Tom and Jerry can be seen on clothes, utensils, toothbrushes, in general, on everything where these 3 words fit.

Funny stories about Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are loved by both adults and children. This cartoon has no age restrictions, despite the severity of jokes in the series, it has typical American jokes with kicks, somersaults, crackers and falls, a desire to annoy each other. However, the cat Tom in the entire history of the cartoon died only once, and then he resurrected at the end, and Jerry still fell into Tom's hands, but this event also happened once.

On March 22, 2001, William Khan died, and in December 2006, Joseph Barbera also died. But their series Tom and Jerry will forever remain a masterpiece of American animation.

77 years ago in the United States for the first time on the screens short cartoon about the irreconcilable, but from this even more comical enmity between a kitten and a mouse. The gray-white short-haired cat Jasper, copied, according to the creators, from some randomly seen mongrel, and the red mouse Jinx, whom the whole world knows as Tom and Jerry, have become one of the brightest on-screen cartoon duets for more than 60 years. whose adventures have been watched by children (and adults) all over the world.

In our material - 20 interesting facts about how the famous cartoon was created and what a rich legacy he left behind. (And for dessert - the 10 funniest episodes of Tom and Jerry!).

The first series of the animated series about the eternal confrontation between the cat Jasper and the mouse Jinx (that was the name of the heroes at the beginning) was released on February 20, 1940 - it was called Puss Gets the Boot.

Initially, the MGM studio, which was going through bad times in the late 30s, was skeptical about the idea of ​​Joseph Barbera to make a confrontation between Jinx the mouse and Jasper the kitten. central theme animated series. William Hanna also believed that it would not be original and suggested thinking about dragons. However, MGM, motivated by the desire to quickly compete with Disney's Mickey Mouse and Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny, allowed five five-seven-minute episodes to be made. And they have become super popular in the US!

After it became clear that Jasper and Jinx were a gold mine, the studio announced a competition among its employees for best names for characters. The nicknames "Tom" and "Jerry" were offered to the heroes by animator John Carr, for which he received a symbolic reward of $50.

Tom and Jerry - the names of the main actors works "Life in London" by the famous British journalist Piers Egan, who lived in the 19th century. To this book and the names of its main characters goes back English expression"Tom and Jerry", meaning violent behavior that creates problems for those in relation to whom this expression is applied, and for others.

AT Old Russian folklore there are “comical” stories about Thomas and Yerem – two brothers, complete opposites to each other, who in different “amusing” verses either fight with each other or become best friends, but basically just go through one adventure after another, incredibly absurd in its absurdity. If you write in Latin the names of Thomas and Yerema, then you get Foma and Jerema, that is, in the "translation" into English language, all the same Tom and Jeremy (Jerry).

The creators of Tom and Jerry, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, subsequently gave us cartoons about Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones, Yogi Bear, the Smurfs and many others.

Tom and Jerry are so loved in the UAE that in 1972 several sets of postage stamps with their image were issued there.

In the US, Tom and Jerry are scolded not so much for the fact that they drink, smoke and constantly beat each other in the most sophisticated ways, but for the fact that until a certain time the series were not politically correct and racist humor was often traced in them. Since 1965, all of the Tom and Jerry episodes that have already been released have been heavily edited (read - censored). On modern DVDs and Blu-ray discs, it is almost impossible to find the His Mouse Friday (1951) episodes, where Tom and Jerry find themselves on an island with a wild tribe that is about to eat them. In the famous series The Two Mouseketeers (1952) is missing the moment in modern versions where Tom turns into a black man after the explosion.

Mommy Two Slippers was at first a complete African American, but then she was made a white woman - also because of political correctness.

One-of-a-kind, unique shot: this is what the “first version” of Mommy Two Slippers looks like.

Mommy Two Slippers favorite expression about Tom's antics: "Tom, if you're a good cat, then I'm Lana Turner."

For the entire time the cartoon was on (more than 250 episodes, 65 years of life, several full-length cartoons), Tom died only five times (and in The Two Mouseketeers series he was executed by guillotine), Jerry three times. The audience has never seen blood and blood stains - a maximum of ketchup or red jam. Nevertheless, modern Americans still resent the "wild cruelty" of "Tom and Jerry".

And now a little creepy. The main cathedral church of Christ Church (Christ Church Cathedral) in Dublin has its own mummified "Tom and Jerry". In 1860, during the “general” cleaning of a large organ that had been in the cathedral since the 15th century, dried, well-preserved bodies of a cat and a rat were found in one of its pipes. Obviously, during the chase, they fell into the pipe, where they got stuck for several years (or centuries). The skeletons, nicknamed "Tom and Jerry", are on display in the crypt of the cathedral.

You probably already figured out which cartoon the famous "Itchy and Scratchy Show" from The Simpsons refers to?

In the animated series "Tom and Jerry" almost everything secondary characters they talk, and they talk a lot. Leading characters for all series say no more than 15 phrases for two. And if you don’t count the screams and the fact that they whisper something in someone’s ear. All "emotional" information is conveyed to the audience through music and sound effects.

The animated series "Tom and Jerry" won seven Oscars. Here is a list of series that received an honorary award: The Yankee Doodle Mouse ("Militant Mouse", 1943), Mouse Trouble ("Mouse Trouble", 1944), Quiet, Please! ("Silence!", 1945), The Cat Concerto ("Cat Concert", 1946), The Little Orphan ("Little Orphan", 1948), The Two Mouseketeers ("Two Musketeers" / "Two Mouseketeers", 1951), Johann Mouse (Johann Strauss II) (John Mouse (John Strauss II), 1952).

Two satellites, nicknamed "Tom" and "Jerry", fly around the planet every day. In 2002, Germany and the United States launched two satellites, the System for Earth Gravity Measurement (GRACE). Their flight altitude is about 450 kilometers, and they fly one after another at a distance of about 220 kilometers. However, it happens that when the first satellite flies up to an area with increased gravity, for example, to a mountain range, it accelerates and “runs away” from the second satellite. After some time, a second apparatus flies here, also accelerates and restores the distance. For these "catching up" companions nicknamed Tom and Jerry.

Jerry has a very strong cousin named Jock, who is feared by all cats, and a Texan uncle, Pecos, who plays the guitar with cat whisker strings. Tom has a very similar cousin, George, who is terribly afraid of mice.

Something about Tom and Jerry's talents:

• Tom and Jerry can read, and if the cat mostly reads newspapers, then the mouse prefers books (in one series, Jerry even wrote a book about his life and confrontation with Tom),
• Tom and Jerry play the piano. So, in the series “The Cat Concerto”, Tom, as a pianist, gives a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, and Jerry maliciously “helps” him from inside the piano, on the strings. In one of the episodes, Tom conducts an entire orchestra, playing both violins and trumpets at the same time. Also in the animated series, Tom plays the double bass and sings serenades (however, like all cats).
• Jerry has a diploma in higher pedagogical education - however, at the end of the episode where it was shown to us, Jerry tears it in half.

At different times, under different producers, artists and copyright holders, Tom and Jerry looked different. What are your favorite Tom and Jerry's?

For dessert - a selection of the 10 funniest episodes of "Tom and Jerry", which will briefly return to childhood. What are your favorite Tom and Jerry adventures?

- a series of cartoons about the endless rivalry of Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse. The then young directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera took on the creation of the first cartoon about a cat and a mouse, constantly not getting along with each other.

At their request, the producer of the future cartoon was Rudolf Aising, a fashionable producer at that time and the creator of the MGM animation department. A team of animators was also hired. And work began on the cartoon "The Cat Gets a Kick", which ended in 1939, and in February 1940 the film was released. No one then even suspected that this cartoon, which immediately captivated millions of viewers, would begin the creation of a grandiose and truly legendary animated series with countless sequels. In 1943, for the Yankee Doodle Mouse series, the creators received the first well-deserved Oscar. And this is despite the fact that the cartoon had such serious opponents as the Walt Disney team in its competitors.

The plot of most cartoons is centered on Tom's unsuccessful attempts to catch a mouse. Since in some episodes the characters get along quite peacefully with each other, it remains unclear why Tom constantly pursues Jerry.

By the way, it is not known how Tom and Jerry met. Also for a long time nothing was known about their childhood. But in 1990, the animated series Tom and Jerry as a Child was released, in which Jerry is not much different from himself in previous cartoons, and Tom is presented as a small but aggressive kitten. It is not clear because of what, but they are at enmity from the first cartoon. For several decades, Tom has been chasing Jerry with relentless passion. Tom comes up with more and more clever tricks to catch Jerry, but the mouse all the time gets out with no less ingenuity. People even thought that in 123 episodes Jerry wins, in 8 episodes Tom wins, in 23 episodes both heroes win, in 12 episodes Tom and Jerry both lose.

These two characters have long been popularly loved. Tom is a dark blue cat who first appears under the name "Jasper" in 1940. "Jasper" is Tom's last name: "Thomas Jasper". He constantly chases the mouse Jerry and sets traps for that, but often falls into them himself. Tom is quite kind and intelligent, so initially he is not set to eat Jerry, but he constantly competes or fights with him in a kind of fights. Sometimes they forget their enmity and act like best friends. Quite quick-tempered and at the same time vulnerable Tom tries to obey his mistress, but he lives at the same time according to the rules of a domestic and street cat.

What is Jerry? Among other things, his full name Gerald Mouse. Jerry is a brown mouse who was originally known as "Mouse" or "Jinx", meaning "bringer of misfortune". He is the main target in various kinds of chases and fights for the cat Tom and tries to constantly arrange some kind of dirty trick for Tom. He leads an independent and opportunistic lifestyle, in between skirmishes with Tom he replenishes his food stocks using the refrigerator in the kitchen, or takes a break. Unlike Tom, who, despite the constant hunt for Jerry, still behaves with him quite delicately, Jerry does not shy away from violence.

And the house in which Tom and Jerry live is constantly changing, the fact that both of them live under the same roof remains unchanged. But mostly, they live with a plump black woman, Mommy Two Slippers.

All over the world there was no cartoon funnier and funnier, and the audience laughed while watching it without stopping for a second. Becoming a real entertainment for adults and children, he was a resounding success, and therefore in 1940 was nominated for an Oscar as the best cartoon of the year.

Recently, William Hanna and Joseph Barber, the fathers of these characters, have died. But in spite of everything, their "children" Tom and Jerry, who won the hearts of millions of viewers around the world, continue to live and delight all fans of animated films with the same success, making them burst into laughter at inventive tricks and antics.