The Invisible Mouse
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| The Invisible Mouse
Tom and Jerry series |
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 The title card of The Invisible Mouse |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Ed Barge Richard Bickenbach Don Patterson Irven Spence |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | September 27, 1947 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 8 min. |
| Preceded by | A Mouse in the House |
| Followed by | Kitty Foiled |
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The Invisible Mouse is a 1947 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.
[edit] Synopsis
Tom baits Jerry with cheese tied to a string. As Jerry jumps at it, Tom draws it back. On his third try, Jerry makes a fake grab for it but still fails to stop Tom from pulling the string completely back. Jerry meets Tom armed with an iron, and Tom drops it. Jerry moves Tom's foot and the iron squashes it. Tom chases Jerry up the stairs of the house and both animals slide down the stair railing, but Jerry moves onto an alternate path while Tom is thrown into the wall and a cuckoo clock falls on him, causing Tom to cuckoo.
Tom spots a fireplace blower on the chase and sucks Jerry away from his mousehole. He is tossed into the air, but catches onto the shelf of plates near the ceiling and breaks a plate over Tom's head. Jerry hides in a bottle in a box labeled Chemo Set as Tom searches for him.
Jerry gets out and soon discovers he's half invisible, so he shadows his whole self and has some fun by himself, eating up some candies and trekking across a table and chairs. Then he finds Tom has set up another cheese/iron trap for him. Jerry walks toward his hole, chomps the cheese and walks away. Tom is puzzled and puts the iron on the nearest table to examine the situation, but Jerry drops the iron on Tom's foot - again. Jerry stuffs Tom's tail into an electric socket and gives him a shock. Tom dashes away in fright and exhaustion. He then settles down to milk, but Jerry moves the dish back and forth as Tom clears out his eyelids. Seeing nothing, Tom lays down to drink, but Jerry slurps every last drop and spits it into Tom's face. Tom checks himself to make sure nothing is hanging from any part of his body, and overcome with exhaustion, draws up a pillow and goes to sleep. Jerry sticks a book of matches between Tom's toes and lights it with one of the matches. Tom starts to sweat in bed and wakes up. He sees nothing, but then smells the smoke and soon notices his foot is on fire. He dashes over to a piano stool and sticks his foot in the goldfish bowl, putting out the fire. Tom then hears the piano playing with no visible assistance and sticks himself in the belly of the instrument, but Jerry causes the cover to fall on him. Tom sees a banana being eaten of its own accord and then spots the shadow of Jerry on the nearby wall. Tom guesses the truth and manages to land a direct hit on Jerry with a book. Tom grabs at where Jerry was, but Jerry grabs an apple and flees. Tom follows him under a refrigerator and then we see an apple core thrown from underneath. Tom throws flour all over the kitchen.
Jerry, sure enough, sets out, but his footprints can be seen. Tom slaps at Jerry with a frying pan, but Jerry writes "missed me" in the flour. Jerry is whacked at again and flees. Tom chases Jerry and grabs at where the footprints are, but when he opens his hand, Jerry twists his whiskers. Tom seizes a curtain and covers the mouse's footprints with it, trapping the mouse in his tracks. Tom gets out a book and starts slapping the mouse, but Jerry escapes unseen from the hold and hits Tom's rear with a golf club. Jerry takes the chase outside, but Tom stops dead: Jerry is preparing to whack a sleeping Spike with the golf club. Tom can do nothing as Spike is bopped on the head and the golf club is planted on him. Spike is angry and starts whacking Tom with the golf club all around the outside.
Jerry, inside, procures a straw and drinks Tom's chocolate milk, but this renders Jerry visible again. Jerry, oblivious, continues sipping.
[edit] Goofs
- After Jerry dives headfirst into the bottle of invisible ink, and emerges from the bottle, only his head is visible, when it would surely have been the first part of his body to enter the bottle.
[edit] Trivia
This episode can be compared to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse in where the short uses a somewhat bright lighting for the scenary, Jerry goes through some type of experiment which causes him to turn the tables on Tom, Jerry plugs Tom's tail into an electric machinary (waffle iron and outlet) which affects Tom's tail, and the end results showing Tom being chased away or whacked by an item proving to be menacing for him.
