But only a few years later, MGM decided to revive Tom and Jerry without its original creators. In 1961 they outsourced to a studio in Prague to save on costs.

Tom and Jerry first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short, Puss Gets the Boot, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Though initially intended as a one-off cartoon, the cat and mouse duo ...

In “Tom & Jerry, The Movie,” that may be Tom and that may be Jerry, but that sure isn’t Tom and Jerry. MGM’s answer to Mickey Mouse made their debut in 1937 and, like all true radicals ...