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Tom & Jerry and Friends

Rare Tom & Jerry treasures.

Gandy the Goose

In Gandy's debut film, he leaves home to make is way in the world. Unfortunately, he's an idiot with an Ed Wynn voice, and a wolf with a George Givot voice tries to lure him into his lair to eat him. Incredible coincidences save him from the stew pot.

Trouble

Tom and Jerry are ambulance-chasing lawyers in search of more business.

Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick

Classic satire on the Western genre, with the sheriff fighting the bad guy. Then a mysterious stranger enters. It's Mighty Mouse!

The Bird Tower

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.

The Jungle Fool

Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle.

Magic Art

Waffles the Cat and Don the Dog fiddle around with a magic pencil, producing drawings that come to life.

The Last Indian

As the White man takes more and more land from the American Indian, they diminish in number to one, who is pushed to madness. He steals a car and a wild live-action ride ends in a crash.

A Yarn About Yarn

A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 December 1941.

Pencil Mania

This Tom and Jerry cartoon (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) is an opportunity for the animators to have fun with the medium. There is no specific plot. One of the boys uses a pencil to create a myriad number of animated illusions that could only work in a cartoon. For example, a short vertical line is drawn, which when held by both ends suddenly becomes a saxophone. When played, the notes pop out of the bell of the instrument to suddenly grow legs and transform into ducks. After the song, the saxophone itself quickly follows suit and becomes a goose. The entire short consists of these disjointed, though often creative and humorously unlikely events.

The Fly's Bride

The Fly's Bride was produced in 1929, one year following Van Beuren's edict that all cartoons would be produced in sound. The RCA Photophone System is the credited process, and Carl Edouarde is credited with "synchronization." The film continues the long-running silent series of Aesop's Fables ("sugar coated pills of wisdom" as the end titles remarked) that the studio turned out. This entry displays the lively brand of "rubber hose" animation that was common in the early sound era. The story opens as a swarm of white shoe-clad flies cavort in a kitchen (gags include a soft-shoe number danced over spilled salt and a cop fly directing traffic around a piece of flypaper). The story shifts outside as a fly calls his gal on the phone. Here some rare lip-synch is attempted during the dialogue; Van Beuren usually avoided dialogue in the years to come in favor of songs to help the story along.

Jolly Fish

Tom and Jerry go fishing, where they encounter an affectionate but annoying fish who won't leave them alone. They hear a piano-playing octopus (with twelve arms!) and have a run-in with a sword fish who cuts their boat in half. Other hijinks ensue, and the two eventually catch a tiny fish, which is in turn swallowed by a larger fish, and this process continues until they've caught a veritable whale. They row ashore triumphant, but when one of them puts their reel (still holding the fish) over their shoulder, the larger fish slip off, unbeknownst to them, leaving them with the runt they started with.

In the Bag

Tom and Jerry crash their plane in the cartoon wild, wild west. Surreal hi-jinx involving a vicious outlaw and robbery ensue.

Pots and Pans

Tom and Jerry run a diner with a strange assortment of customers.

A Swiss Trick

Tom and Jerry are aboard a train making its way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps. When their train breaks down, they're spotted by a very thin St. Bernard, who brings the engine some liquor. The engine zips through the Alps, but leaves the pair behind.

Old Hokum Bucket

A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills....