Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of theatrical shorts, television shows and specials, feature film, home films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse(Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry cartoons at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood, California between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film seven times!

1944 Mouse Trouble(7.07m).mp41945 Quiet Please(7.19m).mp4

Jules Ralph Feiffer (b. January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. In 1986, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice.

Munro is a 1961 animated short film. It was directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced by William L. Snyder.

The title character is a rebellious little boy who is accidentally drafted into the United States Army. No matter which adult he tells "I'm only four", they all fail to notice his age.

Munro won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1961, the first short composed outside of the United States to be so honored.

1960 Munro(8.24m).mp4

The Substitute is a 1961 Yugoslavian short animated film by Dušan Vukotić, produced by Zagreb Film, a Croatian film production company. The film won an Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1962.

A man takes a trip to the beach and every object he brings with him, no matter how unlikely, is inflatable.1961 The Substitute(9.43m).mp4

The Hole is a 15-minute animated film by John Hubley and Faith Hubley that won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1962.

The film uses improvised dialogue from the Trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie… 

…and George Mathews as two construction workers at work in the bottom of a hole on a construction site discussing the possibility of an accidental nuclear weapons attack.

1962 The Hole Pt 1-2(9.25 + 5.52).mp4

The Critic 1963 short animation by director/producer Ernest Pintoff…

 and creator/narrator Mel Brooks, that won an Academy Award in 1963.

Simple, abstract, geometric shapes move and morph on the screen to what sounds like harpsichord music. The voice of an audience member, who claims to be 71, complains throughout most the film despite being told repeatedly by other audience members to keep quiet.

1963 The Critic(3.23m).mp4

The Academy Award Winner of 1964 was so insignificant and boring that I was not able to find any information on the Winner….

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster in 1963.

…narrated by Robert Morley. The Dot and the Line won the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and the other Warners characters, including Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc?

…narrated by Robert Morley.(above)

The Dot and the Line won the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

1965 The Dot and the Line(9.59m).mp4 

Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold).Alpert's musical accomplishments include five number one hits, twenty-eight albums on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen Platinum albums and fifteen Gold albums. As of 1996, Alpert had sold 72 million albums worldwide.

1966 (39th) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature - Paramount - John Hubley and Faith Hubley.

1966 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass(5.16m).mp4

It's Tough to Be a Bird is a 1969 educational animated short made by Walt Disney Productions. It won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons in 1970.

1969 It's Tough to Be a Bird.mp4Part 1!

Pixar was inspired by xxx and they released Your Friend the Rat in 2007.

Your Friend The Rat(11.16m).mkv