Designs on Jerry
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Film series Tom and Jerry Producer Fred Quimby Language English | Music director Scott Bradley Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director William Hanna
Joseph Barbera Release date September 2, 1955 Directors William Hanna, Joseph Barbera Genres Animation, Short Film, Comedy, Family film Similar movies Tom and Jerry movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designs on Jerry is the 93rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, released in 1955, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge with backgrounds by John Didrik Johnsen. It was released on September 2, 1955 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Plot
Tom is busy designing a mousetrap in the attic, inspired by a quote stating that fortune will come to someone who designs an effective mousetrap. Tom creates a Rube Goldberg machine designed to capture Jerry, complete with a blueprint depicting stick figures of a cat and mouse. After finishing his blueprint, Tom goes to bed. While Tom sleeps, the stick-mouse suddenly comes to life and enters Jerry's mousehole, waking him up to warn him about Tom's plan. Jerry, stunned, goes back to sleep, so the stick-mouse promptly drags Jerry to the plan. As they look over it, the stick-cat also comes to life. Promptly, Jerry hands the stick-mouse an eraser to erase the cat's teeth, though it re-draws a bigger set before chasing them.
The stick-mouse draws a mousehole on the blueprint to help Jerry escape, but is then caught by the stick-cat. Jerry draws shorter legs on the cat and erases its bigger legs, causing the cat to fall down. Now unable to run fast, the cat uses its tail as a lasso to catch Jerry, but the stick-mouse draws a bow and arrow and shoots the cat with it to save Jerry and deflate the cat's torso. The mouse then camouflages itself as a flower and ladles the cat with a fork. Both mice then jump off the drawing board with the stick-mouse acting as a parachute, while the stick-cat jumps down and bounces akin to a pogo stick. The mice defeat the cat, firing water at it to erase it and sucking it into Tom's jar of white ink. As both mice celebrate, Tom wakes up. Just in time, they change a key measurement from the original 10 to the changed 12 on the blueprint before returning to their original positions as an unaware Tom resumes his work.
His trap ("The Better Mouse Trap, Designed and Built by Tom Cat") completed, Tom hides as Jerry grabs cheese which Tom tied to string. The successive elements of the trap work together; an alarm clock, a saw, scissors, a hammer, a vertical tower, a banana, windshield wipers, a bucket of sand, a fan, a pool ball, and a washing machine. Lastly, a rifle shoots at a cuckoo clock and the cuckoo begins cutting a rope. Tom aims to capture Jerry by flattening him and storing him inside a suspended safe. Tom eagerly stands next to Jerry and ties blindfold over his eyes, but because of the altered measurement, the safe lands two feet away from Jerry and falls onto Tom instead. Jerry flees as the safe door opens and Tom walks out shaped as a cube. Angry over all the wasted energy for build the trap and being outsmarted and crushed by the safe, a defeated Tom leans on the safe and curses (blocked by trumpet noises).
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