When The Yankee Doodle Mouse was re-issued in 1951, the title card was also re-issued to show an Oscar, and there had been a sequence leading into what was the second war communique. The original title card and this scene are both currently "lost". This lost scene takes place after Jerry hits Tom repeatedly with a board while the flour-filled air obscures Tom's vision, and before we see Tom wearing a pot on his head as a helmet. In the original, when Jerry runs off, Tom follows and jams his head into Jerry's mouse hole. However, Jerry uses a wrench to pin him inside, then proceeds to wet stamps on Tom's tongue and paste them into a book. The scene then dissolves into a second war communique, which reads: "Enemy gets in a few good licks! Signed, Lt. Jerry Mouse
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The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 11th Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Irven Spence, Pete Burness, Kenneth Muse and George Gordon. Jack Zander is uncredited in the 1951 reissue. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on June 26, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.
The short features Tom and Jerry chasing each other in a pseudo-warfare style, making numerous references to World War II technology such as jeeps and dive bombers. The Yankee Doodle Mouse won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, making it the first of seven Tom and Jerry cartoons to receive this distinction.[1] Along with that, it is also the only Tom and Jerry short to be partially lost.
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