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| - Puss Gets the Boot is the first animated short subject in the Tom and Jerry series. A total of 162 entries were released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1940 and 2005.
- Puss Gets the Boot is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 10, 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Rudolph Ising and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Carl Urbano, Tony Pabian, Jack Zander, Pete Burness and Bob Allen. The short is notable for featuring the first appearances of the characters who would later be christened Tom and Jerry, who would go on to appear in over 110 more short cartoons, seven of which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. As such, Puss Gets the Boot gave the animated duo their first Oscar nomination, though the short lost out to another MGM cartoon, The Milky Way.
- Puss Gets the Boot is a one-reel animated short cartoon of Tom and Jerry. It was the pilot episode produced in and released to Technicolor theaters by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Rudolf Ising and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, layout by Harvey Eisenberg and backgrounds by Robert Gentle. The cartoon was animated by Carl Urbano, Tony Pabian, Jack Zander, Pete Burness and Bob Allen. The only screen credit on this film was "a Rudolf Ising Production". The short is notable for featuring the first appearances of the characters who would later be christened Tom and Jerry, who would go on to appear in over 100 more short cartoons, seven of which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film Cartoons. As such, Puss Gets the Boot
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