answers: 1940
context: Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, and Lewis Marshall, this being Marshall's first "Tom and Jerry" cartoon for which he received an animation credit (replacing Ray Patterson who had left). The backgrounds were designed by Robert Gentle and the layouts by Richard Bickenbach. The cartoon was produced in CinemaScope, a form of Widescreen, and released to theatres on September 9, 1955 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Mousketeer Captain Jerry sits mooning at his portrait of a gorgeous French mouse called Lilli, then writes Lilli a love letter and calls his assistant Tuffy, telling him to deliver it. Tuffy goes out and, after briefly </s> Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) Tom and Jerry are fictional characters that starred in a series of early sound cartoons produced by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO Pictures. The series lasted from 1931 to 1933. When Official Films purchased the Van Beuren library in the 1950s, the characters were renamed Dick and Larry to avoid confusion with "Tom and Jerry", the famous MGM cartoon series of the 1940s and 1950s. Today, animation historians refer to the characters as Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry. Today, all of these cartoons are in the public domain. Joseph Barbera began his </s> The following cartoons won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons: These cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but did not win: Tom and Jerry Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, Tom, a cat, and Jerry, a mouse, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy. In its original run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 "Tom and Jerry" shorts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1940 to 1958. During this time, they
question: when was the cartoon tom and jerry created