THE CAT CONCERTO TOM AND JERRY

THE CAT CONCERTO TOM AND JERRY , American vivified toon arrangement about a hapless feline's ceaseless quest for a smart mouse.   Not yet named in their presentation dramatic short, Puss Gets the Boot (1940), Tom (the plotting feline) and Jerry (the spunky mouse) in any case were a hit with groups of onlookers. Illustrators William Hanna and Joseph Barbara delivered more than 100 scenes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). A few of these—including Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), The Cat Concerto (1946), and Johann Mouse (1952) — won Academy Awards for best energized short subject. In many scenes Jerry thwarted Tom's endeavors to get him and lived to irritate him one more day—however every so often Tom got the high ground, or the two would unite against a typical adversary. The arrangement was driven totally by activity and visual cleverness; the characters never talked. After Hanna and Barbera left MGM, the arrangement was resuscitated a few times, most remarkably in the mid-