American animator Jean Deich died on April 16 at his apartment in Prague, the Czech capital, at the age of 95. The news was revealed by Petr Himmel, the representative of Jean Deich's Czech publishing house, but the cause of his death was not revealed.
Jean Deich was born in Chicago in 1924 and moved to Prague in 1959. Jean Deech directed the American animated classic Tom and Jerry and worked on the animated film Popeye. In 1960, he won the Academy Award for Best Short Animation for the film Munro.
Between 1961 and 1962, Jean Deech directed 13 Tom and Jerry, and he took over the series of cartoons with some bumps.
The success of Tom and Jerry owes its credit to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who used cats and mice to create the animated series Sweet Home. After the release of "Sweet Home" in 1940, it became a hit. Originally, the cat in the cartoon was called "Jasper" and the mouse was called "Jinx". However, the boss of MGM Pictures (the producer of the Tom and Jerry series) did not like the names of the two protagonists, so he changed their names to "Tom" and "Jerry" through readers' voting.
From Sweet Home to John the Mouse, released in 1952, the Tom and Jerry series celebrated its highlight moment, winning 7 of them 12 Oscar nominations for Best Animated Short Film.
"John the Mouse" is about a little mouse who lives in the house of the musician Johann Strauss, and whenever the musician plays a beautiful waltz, he can't help but walk out of the cave and dance to the music. One day Strauss went out to perform, and the old cat Tom also played a waltz in order to catch the mouse... According to reports, this animation has appeared in a number of pieces of music composed by Strauss: emperor round dance, Viennese temperament round dance, spring sound round dance, infinite movement harmonic song, small talk polka, etc., is one of the most artistic episodes of "Tom and Jerry".
In 1957, MGM abruptly announced the dissolution of the animation department, and the Tom and Jerry series almost ended. In 1960, MGM Studios abruptly rebooted Tom and Jerry, appointing Jean Deeche as the producer of the animation. Between 1961 and 1962, MGM Film & Animation produced 13 tom and Jerry cartoons.
Compared to the previous game, "Gene Deege's Version" is the most violent version of Cat and Mouse.
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