Who produced the Tom and Jerry cartoons until 1956?
Tom and Jerry for Best Short Subject: Cartoons" of 1941. It lost to another MGM cartoon, Rudolph Ising's "The Milky Way". Producer Fred Quimby, who ran the MGM animation studio, quickly pulled Hanna and Barbera off the other one-shot cartoons they were working on, and commissioned a series featuring the cat and mouse. Hanna and Barbera held an intra-studio contest to give the pair a new name by drawing suggested names out of a hat; animator John Carr won $50 with his suggestion of "Tom and Jerry", at the time best known as the name of a Christmastime mixed drink. The "Tom and
Tom and Jerry Instead of the roaring MGM Lion sequence, an opening sequence featuring different clips of the cartoons was used instead. The title cards were also changed. A pink title card with the name written in white font was used instead. Debuting on CBS' Saturday morning schedule on September 25, 1965, "Tom and Jerry" moved to CBS Sundays two years later and remained there until September 17, 1972. In 1975, Tom and Jerry were reunited with Hanna and Barbera, who produced new "Tom and Jerry cartoons" for Saturday mornings. These 48 seven-minute short cartoons were paired with "Grape Ape" and "Mumbly" cartoons,