Jump to content

Hatch Up Your Troubles: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
BetacommandBot (talk | contribs)
m re-categorisation per CFD , removed Category:Best Animated Short Academy Award nominees, removed Category:Best Short Film Academy Award nominees
 
(191 intermediate revisions by more than 100 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
#redirect[[Tom and Jerry filmography#1940–58: Hanna-Barbera/MGM Cartoons]]
{{Infobox Hollywood cartoon|
| cartoon_name = Hatch Up Your Troubles
| series = [[Tom and Jerry (MGM)|Tom and Jerry]]
| image = Hatchupyourtroublestitle.jpg
| caption = ''Hatch Up Your Troubles'' title card
| director = [[William Hanna]] <br /> [[Joseph Barbera]]
| story_artist = William Hanna (unc.) <br /> Joseph Barbera (unc.)
| animator = Ed Barge <br /> Ray Patterson <br /> Irven Spence <br /> Kenneth Muse
| musician = [[Scott Bradley]]
| producer = [[Fred Quimby]]
| distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| release_date = [[May 14]], [[1949]]
| color_process = [[Technicolor]]
| runtime = 7 min 50 secs
| movie_language = [[English language|English]]
| imdb_id = 0041446
}}


{{R with history}}
'''''Hatch Up Your Troubles''''' is a one-reel [[animated cartoon]] featuring [[Tom and Jerry (MGM)|Tom and Jerry]]. It was produced by [[Fred Quimby]] and directed by [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]], with musical supervision by [[Scott Bradley]] and animation by Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence and Kenneth Muse. The cartoon was produced in [[Technicolor]] and released to theatres on [[May 14]], [[1949]] by [[Metro-Goldwyn Mayer]].


[[Category:1949 animated short films]]
==Plot==
[[Category:1949 films]]
{{spoiler}}
[[Category:Tom and Jerry short films]]
''Hatch Up Your Troubles'' begins with a mother woodpecker leaving her nest for a brief lunch. The egg that she was nesting jumps up in her absence and falls to the ground, rolling into Jerry's mousehole and into his bed. Jerry wakes up to find himself sitting on the egg, which begins to hatch. Out comes a baby woodpecker who instantly takes to Jerry as his mother. The adorable, but naturally, peckish woodpecker cannot resist pecking away at Jerry's furniture.
[[Category:Short films directed by Joseph Barbera]]

[[Category:Short films directed by William Hanna]]
Jerry returns the woodpecker to his nest, but the little bird follows Jerry back to his hole. Eventually, Jerry gives up on the woodpecker and orders him out. With nowhere to go, the despondent baby woodpecker wanders around the garden, where he comes across an unsuspecting Tom, who is sitting in a deckchair, drinking and reading a magazine. The woodpecker carelessly pecks slightly at the deckchair's leg. An irritated Tom pours his drink onto the woodpecker, who then proceeds to peck through the entire leg of the deckchair, causing it to fold up with Tom still sitting on it.
[[Category:1940s American animated films]]

[[Category:1949 comedy films]]
Mayhem ensues. Tom begins to chase the bird, who screeches "Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama!" Jerry emerges from his mousehole and decides to intervene, stopping Tom with a rake. However Tom manages to grab hold of the rake, trapping Jerry in the process, who cannot run away. The woodpecker pecks off the end of the rake, allowing Jerry to run off, and sending Tom hurtling backwards into a mailbox. Tom hurls the long remainder of the rake handle at Jerry and the bird, but the bird quickly pecks it down to a stub. In the ensuing chase, Tom swallows the bird. The bird pecks deep inside Tom's stomach, which vibrates violently. Tom drinks from a bucket of water, only for the water to seep out through tiny holes in his body. The woodpecker eventually pecks his way out through Tom's teeth, and as Jerry runs off, he runs straight into an axe and is knocked out cold. As Tom attempts to disembowel Jerry, the woodpecker continually pecks at the cat's head. Tom grabs the woodpecker in his hand and corks his beak, rendering the woodpecker useless at attacking him. Tom then ties the woodpecker to a telegraph pole. However, the woodpecker manages to free himself, and noticing that Jerry has very little time to escape, quickly performs a complicated calculation in order to stop Tom and rescue Jerry. The woodpecker pecks away at the telegraph pole which comes crashing down onto Tom's head, and then repeatedly pushes him down into the ground.
[[Category:Animated films about birds]]

[[Category:Films scored by Scott Bradley]]
Jerry is thankful for the woodpecker's help. However, the mother woodpecker flies into the scene. The baby woodpecker realises just who his mother is after all, and is whisked away by his mother. Jerry realises that he will miss his avian companion more than he thought he would. Just then, the baby woodpecker flies back to Jerry, gives him a big kiss and flies away again, as Jerry waves him off happily.
[[Category:Animated films without speech]]
{{endspoiler}}
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films]]
[[Image:Woodpecker1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A screenshot from ''Hatch Up Your Troubles''.]]

==Release and reaction==

''Hatch Up Your Troubles'' gave Tom and Jerry their ninth Oscar nomination, but the short lost out to the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon ''[[For Scent-imental Reasons]]'', featuring [[Pepé Le Pew]]. Nevertheless, ''Hatch Up Your Troubles'' remains one of the cat and mouse duo's most fondly remembered shorts.

In 1956, the cartoon was re-made in [[CinemaScope]] as ''The Egg and Jerry'', featuring the same animation re-drawn onto cels with thicker lines and more stylised background art, presumably to exploit the advantages of widescreen, as cinemas were losing their popularity to television by the late 1950s.

[[Category:1948 films]]
[[Category:Tom and Jerry cartoons]]

Latest revision as of 02:57, 3 December 2024

  • With history: This is a redirect from a page containing substantive page history. This page is kept as a redirect to preserve its former content and attributions. Please do not remove the tag that generates this text (unless the need to recreate content on this page has been demonstrated), nor delete this page.
    • This template should not be used for redirects having some edit history but no meaningful content in their previous versions, nor for redirects created as a result of a page merge (use {{R from merge}} instead), nor for redirects from a title that forms a historic part of Wikipedia (use {{R with old history}} instead).