The Midnight Snack

The Midnight Snack
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Story byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Produced byFred Quimby (uncredited on original issue)
William Hanna
Music byScott Bradley (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Perspecta (re-released in 1958)
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • July 19, 1941 (1941-07-19)
Running time
8:40
LanguageEnglish

The Midnight Snack is a Tom and Jerry cartoon released on July 19, 1941.[1] It is the second of the Tom and Jerry films, returning to the basic premise of the previous film, Puss Gets the Boot, following that cartoon's Academy Awards nomination.[2]

This cartoon features the second appearance of Tom and Jerry, and is the first in which the characters are given their familiar names; the first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot has the cat named Jasper and the mouse without a name.[3]

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  2. ^ Maltin, Leonard (1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (Revised ed.). Plume. p. 289. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.
  3. ^ Hanna, William; Tom Ito (2000). A Cast of Friends. Emeryville, California: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80917-6.