Matinee Mouse

Matinee Mouse
Tom and Jerry series
Matinee Mouse title card
Directed by	Tom Ray William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Chuck Jones (uncredited) Tom Ray (production supervisor)
Story by	Tom Ray
Music by	Dean Elliott
Animation by	Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Irven Spence Ray Patterson Lewis Marshall Philip DeGuard
Studio	Sib Tower 12 Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1966
Color process	Metrocolor
Running time	6' 7"
Language	English
Preceded by	Filet Meow
Followed by	The A-Tom-Inable Snowman

Matinee Mouse is a 1966 Tom and Jerry cartoon, acting as a wrap-around short, featuring clips from a number of older cartoons from the Hanna-Barbara era. The story was supervised by Tom Ray, while William Hanna and Joseph Barbera received a special director's credit on the cartoon, though they did not do any actual work on it. It is the only Sib Tower 12 Tom and Jerry cartoon that features Spike.

Plot

Spike, Tom and Jerry pause to watch the ongoing fight out in the seats

Tom Cat chases Jerry Mouse all over the house (scenes from Love That Pup, The Flying Cat, Professor Tom and The Missing Mouse) until Jerry gets back at Tom by beating him up in the closet (a clip from Jerry and the Lion). Both call a truce, and while walking happily down the street, they stop by the local cinema, where they notice a poster advertising their cartoons (implying that Tom and Jerry have occupations as actors). The man who was standing by the wall noticed this cat and mouse. He looks up at the poster, then shrugs. They walk in to watch the feature (clips from Love That Pup, Jerry's Diary, The Flying Sorceress, and The Truce Hurts), but cannot help laughing at each other every time the other is hurt onscreen. Mild annoyance soon turns to violence in the seats, where Tom and Jerry continually slam the seats on each other. Eventually, Jerry tears apart his flag (with Tom following suit) before hitting Tom with a xylophone mallet. The fight scene in The Truce Hurts stops as the onscreen characters (Tom, Jerry and Spike the bulldog) pause to watch the ongoing fight out in the seats.

External links

• Matinee Mouse at the Big Cartoon DataBase