Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse [SEP] series
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse is a 1947 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 30th "Tom and Jerry" short. The cartoon was made in 1946 and released June 14, 1947, and was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby and animated by Ed Barge, Michael Lah and Kenneth Muse with additional animation by Ray Patterson and Pete Burness (both uncredited) and effects animation by Al Grandmain. The short is a parody of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
extolling the virtues of free-market capitalism: "By Word of Mouse" (1954), "Heir-Conditioned" (1955) and "Yankee Dood It" (1956), all three of which involved Sylvester. Freleng directed all three of the vintage Warner Brothers cartoons in which a drinking of Dr. Jekyll's potion (of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") induces a series of monstrous transformations: "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" (1954), "Hyde and Hare" (