The Midnight Snack is a 1941 animated cartoon of a reel and is the second Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released on July 19, 1941 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and re-released in 1957 as a re-edited. Produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. This cartoon featured the second appearance of Tom and Jerry, and was the first in which the characters were named. The first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot had a cat named Jasper and a mouse called Jinx. The Midnight Snack also has the black maid Mammy Two Shoes, Lillian Randolph’s voice, and usually ends in destruction and Tom to be expelled from the house.
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