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Matinee Mouse
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Wikipedia article
'Matinee Mouse' is a 1966 'Tom and Jerry' compilation film short, featuring clips from several previous shorts from the Hanna-Barbara era. The story was supervised by Tom Ray, while founders of Hanna-Barbera and former MGM cartoon studio staff William Hanna and Joseph Barbera received a special director's credit.
Plot
Tom chases Jerry all over the house (clips from 'Love That Pup', 'The Flying Cat', 'Professor Tom', and 'The Missing Mouse') until Jerry gets back at Tom by beating him up to a pulp in the closet and throwing him out (which is a clip from 'Jerry and the Lion'). As they both call a truce with white flags, both become even and start to walk happily along down the street, they stop by the local cinema, where they both notice a poster advertising their cartoons (implying that Tom and Jerry have occupations as actors). The man who is standing by the wall notices this cat and mouse. He looks up at the poster, then shrugs.
They walk in to watch the feature (clips from 'Love That Pup', 'Jerry's Diary', 'The Flying Sorceress', and 'The Truce Hurts'), but every time they get thwarted or attacked in the movie, they always begin laughing, but cannot stop and then start beating up each other. Mild annoyance soon turns to violence in the seats, where Tom and Jerry continually slam the seats on each other. Eventually, the two call off their truce and start fighting each other aggressively in the seats. The onscreen characters in the fighting clip in 1948's 'The Truce Hurts' (Tom, Jerry, and Spike the bulldog) pause their fight to watch Tom and Jerry in the audience fighting out in the seats.
Crew
*Animation: Irven Spence, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson & Lewis Marshall
*Effects Animation: Al Grandmain
*New Animation: Ken Harris, Don Towsley, Grant Simmons & Don Patterson
*Layouts: Dick Bickenbach
*Backgrounds: Robert Gentle
*Written & Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
*Music: Dean Elliott
*Additional Layouts: Ernie Nordli
*Additional Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard
*Sound Editing: Lovell Norman
*Produced by Fred Quimby, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Tom Ray & Chuck Jones
*Story Directed and Supervised by: Tom Ray
Production notes
'Matinee Mouse' is the only Sib Tower 12 'Tom and Jerry' short that features Spike and Droopy.
In 'Matinee Mouse' (and another compilation film, 'Shutter Bugged Cat'), Tom and Jerry are animated using their original designs rather than the designs from the Chuck Jones shorts. However, due to differences in color processing and animation, the changes between Hanna/Barbera footage and Tom Ray footage are not entirely seamless.
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