The short three-minute fragment from series is a 1949 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 39th Tom and Jerry short produced in 1948 and released on February 26, 1949. The short was directed by Tom and Jerry's creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby, animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson and Irven Spence, and scored by Scott Bradley, who here did an early version of the duo's iconic theme tune that would continue to be used in their cartoons the 1950s and 1960s. facts:This is one of a series in which the Tom and Jerry are both lose. Cartoon of rarely on American . On the Arabic channel Spacetoon, the part where Tom turns into a jackass, after realizing he's been tricked into thinking he has measles was cut. All rights reserved Warner Bros.