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| director = [[William Hanna|Bill Hanna]]<br />[[Joseph Barbera]]
| director = [[William Hanna|Bill Hanna]]<br />[[Joseph Barbera]]
| animator = [[Ray Patterson (animator)|Ray Patterson]]<br /> [[Kenneth Muse|Ken Muse]]<br />[[Irven Spence]]<br />[[Pete Burness]]<ref name="ZootToons" /><ref name="ZootGraham" /><br />'''Assisted by:'''<br />Tony Ligerra<br />Barney Posner<ref name="BaxterZoot">{{Cite web |last=Baxter |first=Devon |date=6 December 2017 |title=Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944) |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/tom-jerry-in-the-zoot-cat-1944/ |access-date=7 February 2020 |publisher=Cartoon Research}}</ref>
| animator = [[Ray Patterson (animator)|Ray Patterson]]<br /> [[Kenneth Muse|Ken Muse]]<br />[[Irven Spence]]<br />[[Pete Burness]]<br />[[Jack Zander]] (uncredited) <ref name="ZootToons" /><ref name="ZootGraham" /><br />'''Assisted by:'''<br />Tony Ligerra<br />Barney Posner<ref name="BaxterZoot">{{Cite web |last=Baxter |first=Devon |date=6 December 2017 |title=Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944) |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/tom-jerry-in-the-zoot-cat-1944/ |access-date=7 February 2020 |publisher=Cartoon Research}}</ref>
| layout_artist = [[Harvey Eisenberg]]<ref name="ZootGraham" />
| layout_artist = [[Harvey Eisenberg]]<ref name="ZootGraham" />
| starring = Bill Hanna<br />Jerry Mann<br />[[Sara Berner]]
| starring = Bill Hanna<br />Jerry Mann<br />[[Sara Berner]]

Revision as of 14:26, 16 June 2025

The Zoot Cat
Title card
Directed byBill Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Story byJerry Mann
Produced byFred Quimby[1][2] (uncredited on original issue)
StarringBill Hanna
Jerry Mann
Sara Berner
Edited byFred MacAlpin[2]
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byRay Patterson
Ken Muse
Irven Spence
Pete Burness
Jack Zander (uncredited) [1][2]
Assisted by:
Tony Ligerra
Barney Posner[3]
Layouts byHarvey Eisenberg[2]
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer[1][2]
Release dates
  • January 27, 1944 (1944-01-27) (Premiere)
  • February 26, 1944 (1944-02-26) (United States)
Running time
7:03[1]
LanguageEnglish

The Zoot Cat is a 1944 American Technicolor one-reel animated short and is the 13th Tom and Jerry short.[4] It was released to theatres on February 26, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[1]

Plot

Tom prepares a Valentine's Day surprise for Toots, complete with a gift box containing a note from Jerry. Despite his efforts to impress her with music, dance, Toots rejects Tom's advances, calling him, "corny", and leaving him humiliated.

After Tom hears from Toots' radio of the latest style, he dons a homemade zoot suit to impress her. Jerry, seizing the opportunity, teases Tom relentlessly, eventually outsmarting him and stealing the spotlight in the stylish suit.

Voice cast

Availability

VHS
  • Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Classics 2[5]
Laserdisc
  • The Art of Tom & Jerry: Volume One, Side Two[6][7]
DVD
Blu-ray
  • Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Volume One, Disc One
iTunes
  • Tom and Jerry Vol. 1[8]
Streaming
  • Boomerang App

Censorship

Because of the United Kingdom's ban of TV characters smoking, Jerry smoking a cigar and a cigarette and Jerry putting the cigarette on Tom's nose is faded out.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "The Zoot Cat (1944)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900–1999) (Second ed.). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  3. ^ a b Baxter, Devon (December 6, 2017). "Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  5. ^ "..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site : TOM AND JERRY DVD/VHS::." www.tomandjerryonline.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  6. ^ "LaserDisc Database – Art of Tom & Jerry, The: Volume I [ML102682]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  7. ^ Simon, Ben (July 14, 2003). "The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One – Animated Views". Animated Views. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  8. ^ "Tom and Jerry, Vol. 1". iTunes. September 25, 1965. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  9. ^ "Films in Review » The Zoot Cat". filmsinreview.lib.byu.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2020.