The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres in 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The short, produced and directed by Rudolph Ising with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, explores the adventures of the "three little kittens who lost their mittens", as they explore a dreamland where space is made up entirely of dairy products (for example, the Milky Way is made of milk and the moon is made of cheese). The short won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Other shorts nominated in 1940 included A Wild Hare, introducing the design and personality of Bugs Bunny, and Puss Gets the Boot, the prototype for Tom and Jerry. A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... Short film - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor, now a division of Thomson. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Hugh Harman (1908–1982) and Rudolf Rudy Ising (1903–1992) were animators best known for founding the Warner Bros. ... Scott Bradley was a composer, pianist and conductor. ... Dairy farm near Oxford, New York, July 2001 In many northern-hemisphere countries a dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk (mostly from cows, sometimes from buffaloes, sheep or goats) for human consumption. ... A NASA artists conception of what the Milky Way would look like if seen off-axis. ... A glass of cows milk Milk most often means the nutrient fluid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of various animals—most commonly cows but sometimes goats, sheep, or other mammals. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This class was known as Short Subjects, cartoons from 1932 until 1970, and as Short Subjects, animated films from 1971 to 1973. ... A Wild Hare is an animated short film directed by Tex Avery and released in 1940. ... Bugs Bunny on a United States postage stamp Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit appearing in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, and is one of the most recognizable characters, real or imaginary, in the world. ... Puss Gets the Boot is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 10, 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. ... 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), and produced...