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Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection is a one-disc DVD collection of animated short cartoons starring Tom and Jerry, all directed by Gene Deitch and released in 1961–62. It was released on June 2, 2015, in Region 1. [1] This collection brought all the Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons [2] together for the first time on DVD (on Region 1).
Eugene Merril Deitch (August 8, 1924 – April 16, 2020) was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, [3] and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020. Deitch was known for creating animated cartoons such as Munro, Tom Terrific, and Nudnik, as well as his work on the Popeye and Tom and Jerry series.
Deitch had strongly divergent views on animation compared to Tom and Jerry ' s creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, that he openly expressed throughout his lifetime. [5] The film has a martial arts theme. Jerry Mouse and Tom Cat train in judo and then hold a breaking contest, in which each tries to outdo the other.
A third volume to The Art of Tom & Jerry was released and contains all of the Chuck Jones-era Tom and Jerry shorts, however omitted any of the Gene Deitch-era shorts. This was the final home media release of Tom and Jerry release by MGM.
In 1994, it was voted No. 42 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, the only Tom & Jerry cartoon to make the list. [5] 30 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse: June 14, 1947 Tom tries to prevent Jerry from drinking his milk by poisoning it, but his plan completely backfires when the poison transforms Jerry into a monster.
Gene Deitch's Dicky Moe (1962) is prominently featured on a Disc 1 menu screen, but is not available on the set.. Just as they were on the original release of the Spotlight Collection, Vol. 1, the shorts The Milky Waif and The Little Orphan have been edited to remove scenes where characters are seen in blackface.
Where the original series and the third series by Chuck Jones occasionally had favorable endings for Tom, this series followed the second series by Gene Deitch in almost never having definite "wins" for Tom (although he won at the end of "Most Wanted Cat" (with Jerry) and "Superstocker" and they ended off mutual in "When the Rooster Crows" and ...
Mouse into Space is a Tom and Jerry animated action comedy short film released on April 13, 1962 (copyrighted 1961). [1] It was the fifth of the thirteen cartoons in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Prague, Czechoslovakia.