Looking Back at “Puss Gets the Boot”
A salute to the beginnings of Tom & Jerry.
Tag Archives: MGM Cartoons
Thad’s Review – Part 3: “Tom & Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology 1940-1958”
The third part of Thad’s look at the Tom & Jerry blu-ray set.
Gene Kelly’s World of Animation
A look at a Hollywood legend’s imaginative immersions into live-action and animated filmmaking with Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
The THAD Review: “Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection”
An idea so obvious it’s surprising Warners hadn’t already done this years ago.
A Musical Up-Roar: The Last Years
After MGM closed their home grown animation department, they chose Gene Deitch, and later Chuck Jones, to keep Tom & Jerry alive on the big screen.
A Musical Up-Roar 1954-57
Fred Quimby departed from the reins, and Hanna and Barbera were forced to take over production on much tighter budgets.
A Musical Up-Roar 1953/54
The MGM cartoon division’s response to television was mostly derisive. Scott Bradley was now more willing to mine the classics – via the public domain.
A Musical Up-Roar 1949-51
The early 50s saw Scott Bradley increasingly writing his own scores, and not incorporating MGM’s own published songs.
Tex Avery, Master of Horror
I have attached the most representative images of Avery’s output to some of Poe’s best-remembered sentences. The results speak for itself.
A Musical Up-Roar 1947-49
MGM’s cartoon unit was humming during this period – including continuing to use tunes from various MGM musicals.
