#Yankee doodle war movie cracker#

Jerry uses a brassiere to parachute from the plane, but is again shot down by Tom. Tom grabs a Roman candle and skillfully shoots down Jerry's now weaponless plane, piece by piece. He drops a succession of light bulbs, one of which hits Tom's head, and a banana bomb, which hits Tom's face. Jerry then goes through a hole in a barrel and jumps into a makeshift plane fashioned from an egg carton (launched from a slingshot made from a rubber band). Tom laughs, believing this to be harmless, but the dynamite explodes powerfully.

#Yankee doodle war movie cracker#

Jerry then plants an enormous stick of dynamite behind Tom the cat sees it and screams in terror until the cracker splits into successively smaller sticks, ending with a minuscule replica of the original firecracker.

The puzzled cat opens the kettle's lid and sticks his entire head in just as the firecracker goes off, making him like a sunflower (the sunflower gag was removed on Cartoon Network in the late 1990s and early 2000s due to the short’s blackface reference).Ĭontinuing his attempts to defeat the mouse, Tom launches a Paper plane with a firecracker hidden on top, but Jerry blows it back beneath Tom, who barely spots the firecracker before it goes off and is again black in the face. Jerry jumps into a tea kettle to escape the cat's wrath, but Tom sees him and throws another firecracker into the kettle Jerry panics, but the oxygen has run out and the mouse escapes through the spout with no explosion. Tom, now wearing a bowl as an improvised helmet, throws a stick of dynamite towards Jerry, who immediately throws it back to Tom this continues until Jerry performs reverse psychology by taking it from Tom, provoking the cat to steal it back and this new cycle to continue until Jerry leaves Tom to witlessly hold the stick, which explodes. He smacks the nearly blind Tom in the rear with a board three times, but eventually Tom falls to the ground facing the mouse Jerry slaps Tom a fourth time before the cat can do anything and then runs for it. Adapting quickly to the situation, Jerry grabs the sack and spreads a makeshift flour smokescreen, which blocks Tom's vision but not Jerry's. Jerry charges down the board on a jeep made from a cheese grater attached to a roller skate, tearing Tom's fur as he speeds past twice, after which the jeep crashes into a wall, sending a sack of flour tumbling down. Later, Tom approaches Jerry's mousehole with a cheese and a mallet in his hand, while Jerry uses a pipe as a makeshift periscope to observe spotting this trap, Jerry instead opens the ironing board cupboard, sending the board crashing onto Tom's head. Leading to the 1st war communiqué message, it reads ' Sighted cat – sank same. The mouse promptly launches a brick from a spatula, sinking both the pot and Tom. Jerry shoots off the corks from a champagne case, knocking Tom into a tub of water with only a pot to keep him afloat. As Tom wipes the tomato off his face, he is promptly covered in egg, with one hit to the eye leaving the effect of him wearing a monocle. Jerry then climbs up the wall and grabs a handful of eggs from a carton marked 'Hen-Grenades'. Tom peers into the hole, and Jerry launches a tomato from a mousetrap into his face.

Tom pursues Jerry through a cellar, but the mouse successfully dives into his mousehole.

Patterson would continue to work for Hanna and Barbera until the 1980s.

This is the first Tom and Jerry short to be animated by Ray Patterson, who arrived from Walt Disney Productions. The Yankee Doodle Mouse won the 1943 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, making it the first of seven Tom and Jerry cartoons to receive this distinction. The short features Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse chasing each other in a pseudo- warfare style, and makes numerous references to World War II technology such as jeeps and dive bombers, represented by clever uses of common household items. It was released to theaters on Jby Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Jack Zander was credited on the original print, but his credit was omitted in the 1950 reissue. It is the eleventh Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby, and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Irven Spence, Pete Burness, Kenneth Muse and George Gordon. The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon in Technicolor.