Matinee Mouse

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Matinee Mouse Tom and Jerry series
Title card of Matinee Mouse
Directed by	Tom Ray William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Story by	Tom Ray
Music by	Dean Elliott
Animation by	Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Irven Spence Ray Patterson Lewis Marshall
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1966
Color process	Metrocolor
Running time	6 minutes 7 seconds
Preceded by	Filet Meow
Followed by	The A-Tom-Inable Snowman
IMDb profile

Matinee Mouse is a 1966 Tom and Jerry cartoon, acting as a wrap-around short, featuring clips from a number of older episodes. 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 (other than the clips from earlier shorts).

In this short (and the following compilation short, Shutter Bugged Cat) Tom and Jerry are animated using their original designs rather than the designs used in the other Chuck Jones shorts. Due to the differences in color processing and animation styles though, the changes between the Hanna/Barbera footage and the Tom Ray footage are not entirely seamless.

[edit] Plot

Tom chases Jerry all over the house (clips 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. They go in to watch the feature(clips from Love That Pup, Jerry's Diary, and The Truce Hurts), but can't help laughing at each other every time the other is hurt onscreen. Mild annoyance soon turns to violence in the seats, where TTom and Jerry continually slam the seats on each other. The fight scene in The Truce Hurts stops as the onscreen characters (Tom, Jerry and Butch the bulldog) pause to watch the ongoing fight out in the seats.

[edit] British version

When shown on the BBC, Matinee Mouse was very heavily edited. This was due to the BBC broadcasting episodes in alphabetical order, and Matinee Mouse would usually follow Love That Pup, from which several scenes are taken. Thus, to avoid repeating the same scenes, the BBC cut out those featuring 'flashbacks' to Love That Pup.

[edit] Trivia

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• Jerry has also beaten Tom up in Mouse Trouble, The Milky Waif, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse.
• When Tom and Jerry walk through the lobby, one of the posters advertises a (fictional) Tom and Jerry cartoon entitled "Dial M For Mouser", the title is an obvious play-on-words of the film "Dial M For Murder".
• As a joke for the end of the film, the Tom and Jerry (along with Spike) from The Truce Hurts stops fighting to watch Tom and Jerry in the audience fighting , though it didn't happen when this film aired.