Switchin' Kitten [SEP] series
Switchin' Kitten
The Switchin' Kitten is a "Tom and Jerry" animated short film, released on September 7, 1961. It was the first cartoon in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia, after William Hanna and Joseph Barbera departed from MGM. It is also the first Tom & Jerry cartoon in the 1960s and the first of the Western cartoons that is made in Eastern Europe, as well as in an Eastern Bloc (Second World) country.
Plot
first episode of Art Clokey's "Davey and Goliath" airs.
Events April.
- April 17: 33rd Academy Awards: "Munro" wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short".
Events May.
- May 1: The first episode of "Otogi Manga Calendar" is broadcast, the first anime TV series.
Events August.
- August: The first episode of "Pingwings" is broadcast.
Events September.
- September 7: "Switchin' Kitten", the first "Tom and