Gene Deitch-produced Tom and Jerry - My Opinion

[dacapo]

I've read about how they are apparently terrible, with bad animation quality and weird sound-effects, but I have to disagree with that. The animation, to me, is not much different from that of many other cartoons I've seen. There are some animation mistakes, especially in the first Deitch-produced short, but it really doesn't make that one as unwatchable as many have claimed.

And the sound effects? I love them. They work especially well in the episodes "Switchin' Kitten" and "Buddies Thicker Than Water". I think the reason why so many people hated the Deitch-produced Tom and Jerry shorts is they were simply different - they expected the cartoons to look, sound and feel the same way the Hanna-Barbara shorts did. Gene Deitch and William Snyder had a different artistic vision and different equipment in Czechoslovakia, where these shorts were produced.

I think that today, these cartoons would have been very popular, along with Spongebob and Power Puff Girls. They were just ahead of their time, sort of like the Beta tape and the floptical disk. They may be sort of like the Sailor Moon english dub - many people hate the dubs because they change the story and kiddify it, but there are also many people who prefer the dub for one reason or another. So down with the dub-bashers and the Deitch-bashers ^^

[Lady1Venus]

People also must realize animation before 1995 were sometimes poorly done and it was all because the technology wasn't as good as it is now. Mistakes were easily done. But you know something, little children don't see the mistakes only the adults do. So people shouldn't really bash a cartoon that came before they were born. If they were to have been an adult in the 80s, they would have known what technology was like. We had no cell phones, no internet, not even computers. Offices had type-writers....who remembers those? Not many, that I do know. I'm not fond of Tom and Jerry but that is only because I'm not fond of animal cartoons. Even my niece didn't like it at the first, but she does now.