Tom Thumb in Trouble

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Airdate:
8 June 1940 Blue Ribbon reissue: 24 September 1949

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:	Vitaphone Number:
5849	MM-20-9 1175 (reissue)	9425

Runtime:

8 minutes, 13 seconds (reissue)

Copyright Renewed:

29 April 1968^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Margaret Hill-Talbot
Shepperd Strudwick
Marion Darlington (all uncredited)^[2]

Animated By:

Robert Cannon
Bob Givens (uncredited)
Ken Harris (uncredited)
Alex Ignatiev (uncredited)
Rudy Larriva (uncredited)
Roy Laufenburger (uncredited)
Robert McKimson (uncredited)
Phil Monroe (uncredited)
Ben Washam (uncredited)

Character Design:

Bob Givens (uncredited)

Layout Artist:

John McGrew (uncredited)

Background Artist:

Paul Julian (uncredited)

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

Tom Thumb in Trouble is a 1940 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.

Plot[]

Tom falls in water while his father is away, and a bird saves him. Tom's father mistakenly believes that the little bird who's just rescued his tiny son from drowning in the dishwater is attacking the boy and drives it away. Tom sets off to find the bird and gets lost in a fierce snowstorm.

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Notes[]

This is the last cartoon to have a prototype "That's all Folks!" writing and the final cartoon to have a sky background, evident from the closing title.
This is the first reissued short to show a production number.
This is the final cartoon in which Shepperd Strudwick provided a voice. All cartoons Strudwick worked on were directed by Chuck Jones.
On 2 March 2023, Cartoon Research posted a picture of a color nitrate print containing the original opening color rings.^[3]
The original production number assigned to this short was MM-18-9.^[4] At an unknown point, the number was switched to MM-20-9, with MM-18-9 now being given to "The Hardship of Miles Standish".