| The Yankee Doodle Mouse | |
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Story by | Cal Howard (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby (uncredited on original issue) |
| Starring | William Hanna (uncredited) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Irven Spence Pete Burness Kenneth Muse George Gordon Additional animation: Jack Zander (credited on original issue) Ray Patterson (uncredited) Assistant animation: Barney Posner (uncredited) Effects animation: Al Grandmain (uncredited)[1] |
| Layouts by | Harvey Eisenberg |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 7:28 (reissue version) |
| Language | no spoken dialogue |
The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon in Technicolor.[2] It is the eleventh Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby, and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Irven Spence, Pete Burness, Kenneth Muse and George Gordon. Jack Zander was credited on the original print, but his credit was omitted in the 1950 reissue.[1] It was released to theaters on June 26, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The short features Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse chasing each other in a pseudo-warfare style, and makes numerous references to World War II technology such as jeeps and dive bombers, represented by clever uses of common household items.[3] The Yankee Doodle Mouse won the 1943 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, making it the first of seven Tom and Jerry cartoons to receive this distinction.[4]
This is the first Tom and Jerry short to be animated by Ray Patterson, who arrived from Screen Gems.[5] Patterson would continue to work for Hanna and Barbera until the 1980s.
- ^ a b "MGM's "The Yankee Doodle Mouse" (1943)". Cartoon Research. July 6, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 27. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ^ Gifford, Denis (March 24, 2001). "William Hanna: Master animator whose cartoon creations included Tom and Jerry and the Flintstones". The Guardian (London).
- ^ "Irv Spence's "Rugged Rangers" |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
...he was hired at Walt Disney's studio but left during the strike two years later. He spent a brief period at Screen Gems when Frank Tashlin (who later moved to Warner Bros.) was its creative head. Patterson soon moved to MGM, assigned to the Hanna-Barbera unit.