Mice Follies (1954 film)

Not to be confused with Mice Follies (1960 film).

Mice Follies
Tom and Jerry series
Mice Follies title card.
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Story by	William Hanna (unc.) Joseph Barbera (unc.)
Music by	Scott Bradley
Animation by	Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Irven Spence Ray Patterson
Backgrounds by	Robert Gentle
Studio	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	September 4, 1954
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6' 49"
Language	English
Preceded by	Baby Butch
Followed by	Neapolitan Mouse

Mice Follies is the 85th one-reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1953 directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Ray Patterson with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. Mice Follies was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 4, 1954.

Plot

Tom, with the aid of some skates, pursues Jerry and Nibbles.

Jerry and Nibbles flood the kitchen and freeze the water, turning the room into a skating rink. The two mice go about their own business, skating and sliding across the frozen floor - until Tom is woken up. Tom pursues the two mice, but is not as mobile on ice as he thought. As he skids across the "rink", he crashes into a closet and comes across a pair of ice skates. Equally matching the skating prowess of the mice, the chase resumes as Tom crashes, bangs and stumbles across many kitchen obstacles, including an ironing board, a door and some stools, before sliding up a table-come-ramp and falling down into the cellar.

Jerry and Nibbles dance around a frozen Tom.

Tom emerges from the cellar and just as he is about to catch Jerry, Nibbles wisely defrosts the ice, causing Tom to slip over on the watery floor. Jerry climbs to higher ground as the soaking wet cat searches for him. Ready to squirt Jerry, who Tom has spotted hiding on a shelf, Nibbles sets the freezer to 'Quick Freeze', re-freezing the floor, with Tom frozen and just standing on the floor. Jerry and Nibbles resume their ice dancing, skating around the frozen cat who can do nothing but move his eyes around as the mice skate across the floor.