The Midnight Snack
| The Midnight Snack | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
The original 1941 title card of The Midnight Snack.
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| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby (unc. on original issue) |
| Story by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by |
Lillian Randolph (1941 original version) (unc.) Thea Vidale (1989 redubbed version) (unc.) Clarence Nash (unc.) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley (unc. on original issue) |
| Animation by |
Bill Littlejohn Cecil Surry Irven Spence Jack Zander George Gordon (all uncredited) Additional animation: Carl Urbano (unc.) |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Color process |
Technicolor Perspecta (re-released in 1957) |
| Running time | 8:40 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Puss Gets the Boot |
| Followed by | The Night Before Christmas |
The Midnight Snack is a 1941 one-reel animated cartoon and is the second Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on July 19, 1941, by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, and re-released on February 27, 1948 and 1957. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. This cartoon featured the second appearance of Tom and Jerry, and was the first in which the characters were given their iconic names; the first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot had the cat named Jasper and the mouse without a name, though animation model sheets referred to the latter as "Jinx".The Midnight Snack also features the black housemaid, Mammy Two Shoes, voiced by Lillian Randolph, and ends in the typical destruction, and Tom being kicked out of the house.
The cartoon takes place in a kitchen at midnight. Jerry pokes his head out of the refrigerator door and steals some cheese, unaware that Tom is watching him. Tom weighs the mouse down enough such that he can no longer see in front of him. After Jerry falls off from a rolling pin, Tom emerges from his hiding place with a smug face.
Jerry "salutes" the cat and returns the slice of cheese to the refrigerator. He then proceeds to steal just a tiny bit of cheese, but Tom stomps on his tail with one of his hind paws and replaces the cheese as if to say, "Leave it alone". However, the cat soon realizes that he has the free run of the refrigerator, so he traps Jerry's tail with an iron and begins eating. Jerry frees himself, but is soon caught by Tom, and returns himself to the iron.
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