The first of the MGM Animation/Visual Arts cartoons produced by Chuck Jones.
The first MGM cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, who also got fired from Warner Bros. in 1962 following Warner Bros.'s original in-house animation studio shut down in 1963. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, one of the original MGM animators that worked on the famous Tom & Jerry shorts, went on to successfully create television for animation after the original MGM cartoons closed down in 1957 since head president and producer Fred Quimby retired in 1955. The final Hanna-Barbera short, Tom und ich als Babysitter (1958), was produced in 1957 but didn't release until August 1, 1958 after Hanna and Barbera started working television animation projects before the short released.
The impossible near misses of both characters seem like the actions of a Rube Goldberg-like machine. The game Mousetrap, which debuted in 1963, had similar workings.
The first MGM and Tom and Jerry cartoon of the Chuck Jones era (1963-1967).
In the days before food trucks, the lunch box was a necessity for workers in factories, on docks, and on construction sites.