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Tom and jerry bird love10/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Deitch never liked Tom and Jerry, but wanted to be faithful to the original. So, they got Gene Deitch and his studio in Czechoslovakia for a new season of cartoons in 1961. However, audiences could recognize right away an old cartoon, so MGM had to start from scratch since creators and producers Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera started their own company for TV. MGM closed their cartoon studio in 1957 to save money by re-releasing the older ones. Don't worry though, we'll get through worse cartoons than this. ![]() They are watchable, and fascinating to see in a different way, but could not and did not replace the original versions. They're just reissues of previous cartoons, just reanimated to fit the screen. Oh yeah, and the same exact soundtrack too. The same animation plus a few tricks for Cinemascope here and there such as new modernized backgrounds. It's the same exact cartoon frame by frame. For example, The Little Orphan is now remade as Feedin the Kitty. Some of them are simply remakes of previous cartoons. ![]() Any film buff will tell you if you're watching a zoomed in full screen of a Cinemascope film, you're missing a lot of detail, so yes, if those MGM cartoons are being viewed that way, they are hard to watch at times, but let's say in a perfect world for now no alterations were done to the cartoons. The other was Cinemascope which were filmed that way and had a much larger and wider screen bringing "on the big screen" to a whole new level (Cinemascope is still used today). One was cropped widescreen (filmed in fullscreen). In the 1950's with the threat of television, many studios changed aspect ratios on a lot of their films. What?! I know that sounds far fetched considering these were done by the original studio, but hear me out. ![]()
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