Down Beat Bear is the 102nd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Lewis Marshall, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach. It was released on October 21, 1956 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Jerry prances into his residence inside the cabinet radio (tube d...
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Down Beat Bear is the 102nd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Lewis Marshall, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach. It was released on October 21, 1956 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Jerry prances into his residence inside the cabinet radio (tube driven, not solid state) and puts away his hat. He then pokes himself out of the flap and turns on a station. Loud dance music emanates from the radio.
Tom proceeds to walk in, sit down and read a newspaper, but the music drives Tom to frustration and he turns off the radio. Jerry is inside, with an irked expression (as this action removes all the light from tubes of inside the radio), and then he turns on the radio again. Tom's head is made into musical instrument caricatures.
Jerry is reading a newspaper himself, and then Tom turns off the...
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