The Night Before Christmas.

Classic Christmas cartoon from very early in Tom & Jerry's theatrical run, when both the MGM lavish production values and Hanna-Barbera charm were at their peak. Released to theaters a matter of hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would bring the USA officially into World War II.

The Night Before Christmas is a 1941 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 3rd Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby and animated by Jack Zander, George Gordon, Irven Spence and Bill Littlejohn. It was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.