In 1940, a team of animators under the leadership of William Hannah and Joseph Barber released a pilot video of a cartoon called "Cat receives Pink", where the pursuit of the Cat of Jasper was shown at a small mouse. The episode was immediately nominated for the Oscar premium, but did not receive it.
There was a time when there was still no well-known 20-year-old actor Jack Nicholson, who worked as an assistant in the animation department of the film company.
The mistress of Toma is mommy-two-slipchka, originally she was a black woman. However, in 1954, racial discrimination recognized the anti-constitutional, and the mammy-two-slipfast became Irish. Her heels and hand of hands (only these parts of the body appear in the frame) repainted in white. The face of milf-two-slippers can be seen only in one series. At this step, the artists went only because the number of letters with requests to show the Volume of Tom exceeded all reasonable limits. 12 years after the start of the show from the milf-two-slipchka, they decided to get rid of.
Mistress Toma - Mommy-Two-Slipchka. Frame from the cartoon "Tom and Jerry".
In the first years of work, about 40 thousand dollars left for each series of pursuit of the cat for a resourceful mouse.For 75 years, various studios created 163 short episodes about the adventures of Tom and Jerry, as well as 5 animated series and 19 remakes of old issues.
In some episodes, Tom and Jerry smoke. It caused parental discontent, but turned into a problem only in 2006, when the British Channel BOOMERANG began to cut cad-ry with smoking scenes.
In the history of the series, the series Tom died once, and Jerry was caught once. Nevertheless, the cruelty of some scenes was repeatedly criticized.
The freshest episode of Tom and Jerry came to the screen in 2013, when the 89-year-old Joseph Barber drew a seven-minute series of a cartoon more than 30 years after the previous one appeared. The premiere took place on the eve of Christmas in the UK.