![]() Hanna and Barbera’s unit of animators– consisting of Irv Spence, Ken Muse, Pete Burness, George Gordon and Jack Zander-are assigned large sections throughout the film. Layout drawing from a now-missing sequence of “The Yankee Doodle Mouse” The details of the missing scene can be seen here ( below), and in the scene descriptions below that (scenes 31-33) it also explains there were intended to be three war communiqués from Jerry, instead of two in the re-issue version, released in 1951. The missing sequence is indicative from an abrupt fade-out during the sequence where Jerry continuously smacks Tom with a board, amidst a flour-encompassing smokescreen. The only reference that would date the film was a gag involving ration stamps, which is absent from the currently circulating re-issue version. The use of firecrackers as a weapon became a bigger staple in animation with the advent of the war it remained a go-to solution to eliminate adversaries, especially in Warners cartoons. It depicts an allegorical battle without alluding to the Axis leaders, as did many other cartoons of the period. Get out the firecrackers and Roman candles, it’s an Oscar-winning Tom and Jerry this week! (Yes, I’m aware it is after the Fourth of July, but it still fits the occasion.)īy 1943, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera’s Tom and Jerry cartoons had reached their peak, especially in their speed, by their eleventh cartoon The Yankee Doodle Mouse, under its working title “Jerry’s Home Defense.” This cartoon stands apart from the other animated films of World War II. ![]()
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