Tom & Jerry — [third episode] «The Night Before Christmas» (USA, 1941).mp4

Happy #MerryChristmas! 🎄 ᅠᅠ«The Night Before Christmas» is a December 6, 1941 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the third #TomandJerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Supervised by: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera Additional Supervision: Rudolf Ising Story by: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Based on the poem by Clement Clarke Moore (uncredited) Music by Scott Bradley (uncredited) Produced by: Fred Quimby, Rudolf Ising Co-Producer: William Hanna Voice cast: Harry E. Lang and William Hanna as Tom Cat William Hanna as Jerry Mouse Frank Graham as Narrator Animation: George Gordon, Bill Littlejohn, Irven Spence, Jack Zander, Cecil Surry, Michael Lah, Pete Burness, Kenneth Muse, Ray Abrams, Carl Urbano Color process: Technicolor Production company — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoons ᅠᅠThis third cartoon uses what has become the basic «cat stalks mouse» premise, but also hints at a softening in Tom Cat’s character: when Jerry is out in the freezing cold, Tom worries about him, indicating that the rivalry between them may not be entirely a fight to the death. ᅠᅠThe #cartoon was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but lost to the Mickey Mouse short film Lend a Paw, making it the only Tom and Jerry cartoon to lose to a Disney film. But it received an award from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ᅠᅠThe premiere of the series took place on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor and on the day when the Soviet Army launched a counteroffensive near Moscow.