Tom & Jerry at odds in The Cat Concerto.

Jerry attempts to play a solo of his own in this scene from The Cat Concerto.

The Cat Concerto is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Tom and Jerry series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on April 26, 1947 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. It won the 1946 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Tom & Jerry in the 1946 Academy Award winner The Cat Concerto This work is copyrighted. ... Tom & Jerry in the 1946 Academy Award winner The Cat Concerto This work is copyrighted. ... Tom & Jerry in the 1946 Academy Award winner The Cat Concerto This work is copyrighted. ... Tom & Jerry in the 1946 Academy Award winner The Cat Concerto This work is copyrighted. ... An animated cartoon is a moving picture generated by photographing drawings frame-by-frame, as opposed to a normal movie, which is produced by shooting 24 frames a second of actual moving persons or objects. ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... Tom & Jerry title card from the 1940s Tom and Jerry were an animated cat (Tom) and mouse (Jerry) team who formed the basis of a massively successful series of theatrical short cartoons created, written and directed by animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (later of Hanna-Barbera fame). ... The Technicolor logo Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by The Technicolor Corporation, now a division of Thomson. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Frederick C. Quimby (November 14, 1883 - September 16, 1965) was the producer of the MGM animated cartoon division, which most notably included the Tom and Jerry team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. ... William Hanna William Denby Bill Hanna (July 14, 1910 in Melrose, New Mexico – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, cartoon artist, and co-founder, together with Joseph Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera (now known as Cartoon Network Studios). ... Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Joe Barbera (born March 24, 1911) is an animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer and co-founder, together with William Hanna of Hanna-Barbera (now known as Cartoon Network Studios). ... Scott Bradley (born November 26, 1891 in Russellville, Arkansas, USA; died April 27, 1977 in Chatsworth, California, USA) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This class was known as Short Subjects, cartoons from 1932 until 1970, and as Short Subjects, animated films from 1971 to 1973. ...

The plot centres on a formal concert, where Tom is giving a piano recital of Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt. Jerry, who has been asleep inside the piano, is annoyed, having been rudely awakened by the hammers and sits on top of the grand piano to conduct (intimidate) the Cat. Tom cannot abide this, and flicks Jerry off the piano. This begins their cat-and-mouse antics, which continues throughout the cartoon. All the while, Tom continues playing without any interruptions regardless of anything either opponent does. A classical music concert in the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. ... The Hungarian Rhapsodies, (S/G244, R106) Rapsodies hongroises or Ungarische Rhapsodien) are a set of pieces of music by Franz Liszt, originally for solo piano. ... Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. ... A grand piano from Schiedmayer & Söhne, Stuttgart. ...

The Warner Bros. animation studio released a very similar cartoon the same year MGM released The Cat Concerto. This cartoon, named Rhapsody Rabbit had a very similar plot to The Cat Concerto, except it featured Bugs Bunny in place of Tom and an unnamed mouse in place of Jerry. Both MGM and Warner Bros accused each other of plagiarism, after both films were shown during the 1946 Academy Awards ceremony. The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ... A Bugs Bunny animated short film from Warner Bros. ... Bugs Bunny, as seen in the Looney Tunes short Rabbit Transit. ... Plagiarism is a form of academic malpractice specifically referring to the use of anothers information, language, or writing, when done without proper acknowledgment of the original source. ...

External references

• The Cat Concerto at EOFFTV
• The Cat Concerto at The Internet Movie Database
• The Cat Concerto, a section of Nicola Watts' "Cartoons and Music" 1997 media studies project at Glasgow University.
• Watch The Cat Concerto online at YouTube.