Jerry and Jumbo
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| Jerry and Jumbo
Tom and Jerry series |
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 Title card of Jerry and Jumbo. |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Kenneth Muse Irven Spence Ed Barge |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | February 21, 1953 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes 13 seconds |
| Preceded by | The Missing Mouse |
| Followed by | Johann Mouse |
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Jerry and Jumbo is a 1951-copyrighted Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was scored by Scott Bradley and animated by Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Ed Barge and was released to theatres on February 21, 1953.
[edit] Plot
A baby elephant falls from a passing train into a house, and, as luck would have it, into Tom's basket. Jumbo hides himself with Tom's blanket as Tom stretches and goes to sleep. Tom pushes part of Jumbo down such that his trunk is showing, but Jumbo pulls it back such that Tom, who is dead tired, pays no attention. Jumbo steps out of the basket and runs around with Tom on top of him, causing Tom to bump his head on a cabinet. Tom is confused, but goes back to sleep in his basket again. Jumbo is revealed to have strong suction; he can draw things towards him by contracting his trunk. He demonstrates this by sucking up all of Tom's milk from 15 feet away, waking the cat up again. Jumbo hides behind a chair as Tom storms into the kitchen. Jerry just happens to be stealing milk from the refrigerator and Tom confronts him. A drop of milk falls from his whisker and Tom thinks Jerry has stolen his milk. Jerry denies it, but Tom is about to smash Jerry with the milk bowl when Jumbo sucks Jerry away and Tom misses. Tom is puzzled and walks away. Jumbo and Jerry shake on it (Jumbo uses his trunk). Jerry accesses a bag of peanuts by standing on Jumbo and retrieving it from the cabinet, but it breaks over Jumbo's head and wakes Tom up again. Jumbo flees, summoning Jerry with his suction, into a closet. Tom sees the peanuts on the floor get sucked around the floor and into the closet and Tom then attempts to open the closet door. Jerry paints Jumbo and turns him into a lookalike of Jerry. They then unlock the door and Tom is met with hammers from both Jerry, and then a second time from Jumbo, when he opens the door.
Tom is puzzled and peeks inside when he opens the door again. When Jumbo is seen on the other side, Tom shuts the door in an instant. Tom grabs a baseball bat, looking to beat up Jumbo, but instead gets his foot smashed by Jerry again. The fourth time Tom opens the door, he is met by Jumbo. He is just as big as Tom, so Tom backs up, and then Jumbo punches Tom with his trunk. Tom is thrown into a desk.
Tom opens the door for a fifth time and hides behind it, shaking. But he finds no one there: They have fled. He then hears a crashing sound and Jerry running through the halls. He runs back and forth and sees a huge Jerry on the other side (actually Jumbo). Tom is curious and runs across a second time and sees Jerry. He sighs with relief, and for confirmation, runs across a third time and sees only Jerry, but changes direction and this time, sees Jerry and Jumbo. Tom starts to get confused and pokes his head over the wall. The first time it is Jumbo; then Jerry, then Jumbo, then Jerry. When he runs towards Jerry's mousehole and sees a huge mousehole next to Jerry's, Tom yells in fright. There is a mousetrap near Jerry's hole; Tom puts a large mousetrap near Jumbo's hole and runs off. Jumbo turns the trap around and sucks Tom into the trap and Tom can do nothing about it except watch. A lump is formed in Tom's tail. Tom chases after Jerry, who runs into another mousehole. Tom gropes for Jerry's tail, but gets Jumbo's instead. Tom loses control of Jumbo's weight and tumbles onto the stairs and gets flattened by Jumbo.
Tom now resorts to attempting to shoot Jumbo. He just misses Jerry in the attempt. Jumbo hides and Tom goes after Jerry instead. Just then, mama elephant pokes her head through the window and hugs her son. When she sees more shots narrowly miss Jumbo, she scoops him up as Tom continues to shoot at Jerry. Jerry runs outside and hears whistling. Jumbo is behind the garage with a paintbrush and motions for Jerry to join him. Tom chases him and Jerry jumps out, followed by Jumbo and mama elephant, decked out in mouse colors too. The gun droops as if it were a piece of spaghetti. Tom believes he is insane and runs off manically.
[edit] Goofs
- When Tom runs away at the end of the cartoon, there is a slight jump in the animation where Tom jerks back a few frames before returning to his correct position.
