TOM AND JERRY

«Tom and Jerry» — a series of animated shorts created by American animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. In the storyline of each piece depicts the rivalry of cat Tom and mouse Jerry.



The pilot edition of the project «the cat gets a kick» was created in 1940. After the success of the Duo Hanna-Barbera wrote a script to 113 series that was screened in cinemas before the showing of feature films until 1958. After closing the animation Department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since 1960-ies, the cartoon was created in the studios of Rembrandt Films and МGM Animation/Visua Arts (also known as Sib Tower 12 Productions) under the leadership of Gina Deutsch and Chuck Jones respectively.



Since the 1970s, spin-offs involving the cat Tom and mouse Jerry were created by companies Hanna-Barbera and Filmation. In 1992 in theaters was the first animated feature of the same name, where the main characters are voiced and talking throughout the tape. Later, the creators decided to return to the style of the first episodes, releasing for channel Boomerang short episodes of «the Mansion Cat» and «the Karate guard». Currently the rights to the animated series is owned by Warner Bros.



«Tom and Jerry» quickly gained recognition from the audience and has gained popularity worldwide. However, most of the episodes were criticized for the depiction of violence and cruelty of the main characters and a weak plot in some short films. Nevertheless, the history of cartoon received 7 Academy awards for best animated short film.
Famous cartoon got for cruelty and violence. Often in a short series seem moments with explosions, cutting characters and even death, but most of the times there is no blood, and the main characters already for the next release once again be alive.



A big role in short films, plays music: it tries to convey the feelings and emotions of this or that hero. Especially notable is the role of composer Scott Bradley. It combined together elements of jazz and classical music, has created a complex and original scores, but often the songs in the episodes represent the recycling of popular tunes. In later cartoons, the music began to sound in small pieces.

Nu, pogodi!

«Nu, pogodi!» — a popular Soviet and Russian animated series.



The story of this cartoon began even before the creation of the first, familiar to everyone, release. In 1969 Director Gennady Sokolsky was filmed the first series, the main idea which formed the basis of the famous series. In the future, changed the graphics, humor, age and appearance of the characters, but the main idea was the same. The basis of the cartoon that a hungry wolf chasing a hare hoping to eat it, but for various reasons it was not possible. In the end, the hare is always a winner, and the wolf at the end of each series, said: «Well, Hare, wait!». According to IMDb, is among the five most highly acclaimed Soviet and Russian films.



Each episode lasting about 10 minutes begins with the caption «Soyuzmultfilm», which immediately begins the prologue: a separate small plot, about 2 minutes, at the end of which or the Wolf yells after the Hare, «Well, pogodi!» or a corresponding note appears.



Animated series featuring plenty of popular recordings
Western and Soviet music. As it was made, they never mentioned that the output of the cartoon.
In the animated series uses a lot of popular tunes 1960-1980 years, many of which were derived from the archives of the all-Union radio, or with vinyl records from the personal collections of engineer’s series.



In late August 2012, after discussion in the media categorization of the cartoon, in accordance with effective from 1 September in force, adopted in 2010 a law On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development" were statements about the decision to take him because of scenes of violence or Smoking to the category «18+» and to show it on TV without any cuts only after 23:00. Also in this discussion mentioned the possibility of excluding the cartoon of categorization because of its cultural values.