Mouse Trouble is the 17th short of what animated series of short films that began in 1940?
Mouse Trouble Mouse Trouble is a 1944 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 17th "Tom and Jerry" short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley (the music is actually based on the popular jazz song "All God's Children Got Rhythm"). The cartoon was animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Ken Muse and Pete Burness. The cartoon won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the second consecutive award bestowed upon the series. It was released in theatres on November 23, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and reissued on December 12, 1951.
Color Rhapsodies Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor "Silly Symphonies". Because of Disney's exclusive rights to the full three strip Technicolor process, "Color Rhapsodies" were produced in the older two-tone Technicolor process until 1935, when Disney's exclusive contract expired.