Busy Buddies
Busy Buddies | |
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File:Busy Buddies Title.jpg Title Card | |
Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Produced by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Animation by | Irven Spence Lewis Marshall Kenneth Muse Ed Barge |
Layouts by | Richard Bickenbach |
Backgrounds by | Robert Gentle |
Color process | Technicolor CinemaScope Perspecta |
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Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Running time | 6:15 |
Busy Buddies is a 1956 one reel animated Tom and Jerry short directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Irven Spence, Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach. Busy Buddies was the 100th cartoon of the 114 that Hanna and Barbera directed during their tenure at MGM. It was released on May 4, 1956 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and also the first cartoon to feature Jeannie the babysitter (voiced by Julie Bennett) and a mischievous baby that kept crawling off, both of whom would return in the 114th and final cartoon, Tot Watchers, released in 1958.
Plot
Joan and George are going out and tell the babysitter, Jeannie, to look after an unnamed baby. However, she is more interested in talking on the telephone. At first, Tom and Jerry take the opportunity to help themselves to some food, Jerry helps himself to some cookies and Tom helps himself to a watermelon and milk, but they soon discover the baby crawling away while Jeannie continues to talk on the phone, unaware. Tom and Jerry rescue the baby from increasingly dangerous hazards, such as the cupboards, the sink, a curtain rod, the heating ducts, a flagpole, and a mailbox down the street (which leads to them being shot at by rogue police officers). Tom goes home with the baby, but suddenly the baby falls in the sky. Tom gets a stroller, but the baby uses a diaper as a parachute, and floats to safety. Jeannie is unaware through all of this (even when the baby crawls over her), and at one point even hits Tom with a book for "bothering the baby" when he returns the baby to the crib. At the end, Joan and George return and ask Jeannie how things went. She explains that she had a little trouble with Tom, but the baby was "no trouble at all". Then the camera cuts to the baby on the crib and he winks at the camera as the cartoon closes.
Availability
- Tom and Jerry: No Mice Allowed, Disc Two
- Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 5
- Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 3, Disc Two
Production
- Animation: Irven Spence, Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge
- Layout: Richard Bickenbach
- Backgrounds: Robert Gentle
- Music: Scott Bradley
- Produced and Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
External links
- Articles lacking sources from May 2008
- 1956 animated films
- Tom and Jerry short films
- 1956 Tom and Jerry short films
- Films directed by Joseph Barbera
- Films directed by William Hanna
- 1950s American animated films
- American films
- American short films
- 1950s comedy films
- Films scored by Scott Bradley
- American animated short films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
- Films about animals
- Animated films about animals
- Films about cats
- Animated films about cats
- Films featuring anthropomorphic mice
- CinemaScope films
- Short animated film stubs