ANIME CHARACTERS(TOM AND JERRY)

                    (TOM AND JERRY)

           

                TOM AND JERRY IS AN AMERICAN ANIMATED FRANCHISE AND SERIES OF  COMEDY SHORT FILMS CREATED IN 1940 BY WILLIAM HANNA AND JOSEPH BARBARA. BEST KNOWN FOR ITS 161 THEATRICAL SORT FILMS BY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, THE SERIES CENTERS ON FRIENDSHIP/RIVALRY (A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP) BETWEEN THE TITLE CHARACTERS TOM,A CAT,AND JERRY,A MOUSE. MANY SHORTS ALSO FEATURE SEVERAL RECURRING CHARACTERS.

      

                IN ITS ORIGINAL RUN, HANNA AND BARBERA PRODUSED 114 TOM AND JERRY SHORTS FOR MGM FROM 1940 TO 1958. DURING THIS TIME,THEY WON SEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS FOR ANIMATED SHORT FILM,TYING FOR FIRST PLACE WITH WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONIES WITH THE MOST AWARDS IN THE CATEGORY. AFTER THE MGM CARTOON STUDIO CLOSED IN1957, MGM REVIVED THE SERIES WITH GENE DEITCH DIRECTING AN ADDITIONAL 13 TOM AND JERRY SHORTS FOR REMBRANDT FILMS FROM 1961 TO 1962. TOM AND JERRY THEN BECOME THE HIGHEST-GROSSING ANIMATED SHORT FILM SERIES OF ALL TIME , OVERTAKING LOONEY TUNES. CHUCK JONES THAN PRODUSED ANOTHER 34 SHORTS WITH SIB TOWER 12 PRODUCTIONS BETWEEN 1963 TO 1967. THREE MORE SHORTS WERE PRODUSED, THE MANSION CAT IN 2001, THE KARATE GUARD IN 2005,AND A FUNDRAISING ADVENTURE IN 2014 =, MAKING A TOTAL OF 164 SHORTS.

                                             

 A NUBER OF SPIN-OFFS HAVE BEEN MADE, INCLUDING THE TELEVISION SERIES THE TOM AND JERRY SHOW(1975),THE TOM AND JERRY COMEDY SHOW(1980-1982),TOM AND JERRY KIDS (1990-1993),TOM AND JERRY TELLS(2006-2008),AND THE TOM AND JERRY SHOW(2014-PRESENT). THE FIRST FETURE- LENGTH FILM BASED ON THE SERIES, TOM AND JERRY:THE MOVIE,WAS RELEASED IN 1992,AND 13 DIRECT-TO-VIDEO FILMS HAVE BEEN PRODUSED SINCE 2002, WITH AN UPCOMING ANIMATED/LIVE-ACTION HYBRID FILM TO BE RELEASED IN 2020. A MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF THE SERIES, TITLED TOM AMD JERRY: PURR-CHANCE TO DREAM,DUBUTED IN JAPAN IN 2019 IN ADVANCE OF TOM AND JERRY'S 80TH ANNIVERSARY.