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.
The third part of Thad’s look at the Tom & Jerry blu-ray set.
An exploration into the origin of MGM’s Tom & Jerry – and how they got their names.
A tribute to a genre of music, which, while it only showed up rarely in cartoons, made its mark in memory – and animation history.
Cartoon consciousness comes in a quartet of Tom and Jerrys, a duo of Bugs Bunny, and solo spots for Woody, the Road Runner and Tommy Tortoise.
An idea so obvious it’s surprising Warners hadn’t already done this years ago.
Fred Quimby departed from the reins, and Hanna and Barbera were forced to take over production on much tighter budgets.
The early 50s saw Scott Bradley increasingly writing his own scores, and not incorporating MGM’s own published songs.
This week’s animated offerings range from a classic Bugs Bunny, myopic Magoo madness, to a double-dose of Tom and Jerry.
Four animated shorts, each an Oscar winner and each one also celebrating an anniversary this year.
One more visit with Van Beuren’s Tom and Jerry before their visit to replication.
