In 2019, a musical adaptation of the series, titled Tom and Jerry: Purr-Chance to Dream, debuted in Japan, in advance of Tom and Jerry ' s 80th anniversary. In 2021, the live-action/animated hybrid film Tom and Jerry was released, while a Chinese-American computer-animated film, Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass, premiered in June 2025. The real fur color of Tom cat in Tom and Jerry is not completely gray or blue, but a combination of both colors.
According to the official description from the manufacturer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Tom is a blue. Grey American bulldog, Spike has little affection for Tom; despite so, his relationships with Tom and Jerry varies from time to time. --- Butch: first appearance in the 12th short "Baby Puss", December 25, 1943.
His very first appearance, as Butch's only solo cartoon along Toodles Galore, took place in the MGM short "The Alley Cat" (July 5, 1941). In this video, we dive into the fascinating evolution of one of the most iconic cartoon duos of all time - Tom & Jerry! Starting from their humble beginnings. Tom and Jerry is a American animated short film series created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a house cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence.
Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry cartoons at the MGM cartoon studio in. In 1961 and 1962, Rembrant Films revived Tom & Jerry with 13 more shorts, the first ones being made since MGM's cartoon studios closed in 1957. A number of spin-offs to Tom & Jerry were released throughout the years including "The Tom and Jerry Show" airing in 1975, and "Tom and Jerry", a live-action/animated hybrid film, being released in 2021.
In 1940 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced their first cartoon film of a cat and mouse. 'Puss Gets The Boot' was hugely successful and MGM commissioned another twelve films and this led to the Oscar win- ning Tom and Jerry films we know today. However, in the first film, the cat is called Jasper, not Tom, and the production team named the mouse Jinx.
So where did Tom and Jerry come. Despite the first movie not winning the Oscar, the "Tom and Jerry" short film series would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subject seven times. Including other categories, it has won more Oscars than any other theatrical animated series.
Between 1940 and 1957, Hanna and Barbera wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry cartoons at MGM. Tom's appearance changed. Tom and Jerry filmography The Tom and Jerry series consists of 163 shorts produced and released between 1940 and 2005.
Of these, 162 are theatrical shorts while one is a made-for-TV short, subsequently released in theatres.