Tom is sleeping and minding his own business for the first 4½ minutes of The Little Orphan (1949 general release). Then, thanks to Jerry an...

It’s been said the increasing pace of the action in Tex Avery cartoons at MGM rubbed off on the studio’s Hanna-Barbera unit. Here’s an exam...

There are scenes with very quick movement in The Mouse Comes to Dinner , released by MGM in May 1945. In this one, Tom gulps down a glass ...

The Lonesome Mouse (1943) is an unusual cartoon in some ways. In the early years of the series, Tom and Jerry battle each other, but when t...

The greatness of the early Tom and Jerry cartoons relied on a number of things. One of them was the expressiveness of the characters. Audien...

In Pup on a Picnic (1953), Tom tries to distract Spike the bulldog with a wiener by pretending it’s a stick to be fetched. The ruse work...