William Danby Hanna and Joseph Roland Barbera joined the MGM cartoon unit in 1937. Their partnership began in 1939 on “Puss Gets the Boot,” the cartoon that propelled Tom the cat and Jerry the ...

In 1937, he moved to Hollywood to join the fledgling ... Hanna and Barbera's first MGM cartoon, Puss Gets the Boots, was released in 1940. It was not only a hit but it was the first cartoon ...

In an age before computer-generated images, each cartoon was hugely labour ... delivery boy for a tailor. In 1937 he left for Los Angeles where he met Hanna at MGM.

Hanna and Barbera met on the lot of MGM in 1937 where they created the Tom and Jerry cartoon series. Besides Tom and Jerry, they had made film history at MGM by mixing animation and live action ...

Their career goes back to the MGM cartoon department where animators Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera first met in around 1937. In 1939, after working on a number of ultimately unsuccessful cartoons ...

Once upon a time, way back in 1937… MGM decided to produce its own cartoons and set up a studio on the lot. They ended their … ...

Los Angeles - Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna were hired within a month of each other in 1937 by the MGM cartoon factory. They soon hit on the idea of a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry. "When we ...

Their career goes back to the MGM cartoon department where animators Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera first met in around 1937. In 1939, after working on a number of ultimately unsuccessful cartoons, Hanna ...

Their career goes back to the MGM cartoon department where animators Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera first met in around 1937. In 1939, after working on a number of ultimately unsuccessful cartoons ...