This is a cartoon in the Tom and Jerry series produced by Van Beuren studio. There will be spoilers ahead:
The "other" Tom and Jerry duo (the human ones from Van Beuren) were actually pretty good, all things considered. For a bottom of the ladder studio, which Van Beuren most decidedly was, the Tom and Jerrys typically had a peculiar quality to them which made up for the marginal production values inherent to the studio.
This starts out with Tom doing a portrait of a dancing cow. Jerry comes along and the short starts getting even stranger. He takes a blob of paint into a pen and draws an ovoid in the sky. It falls on Tom and cracks like an egg and the chase is on. Tom tries to get the pen to work but can't. Jerry whittles a point and the shavings become wooden shoes, which are then danced on as if there are a xylophone.
Suddenly, pretty much everything morphs into something else and the cartoon becomes surreal. Then Jerry draws three fruit/vegetable shapes, which sing, "Yes, We Have No Bananas". Jerry then elongates two of them into the standard couple in a melodrama and later makes the third shape into the villain and the bulk of the rest of the cartoon becomes a melodrama, with Jerry stepping in to draw solutions or dilemmas, seemingly on a whim. The ending is very good, so I won't spoil that here.
This cartoon, along with all the other cartoons in the series, are available on a two-disc DVD set from Thunderbean and it and the set are recommended.
The "other" Tom and Jerry duo (the human ones from Van Beuren) were actually pretty good, all things considered. For a bottom of the ladder studio, which Van Beuren most decidedly was, the Tom and Jerrys typically had a peculiar quality to them which made up for the marginal production values inherent to the studio.
This starts out with Tom doing a portrait of a dancing cow. Jerry comes along and the short starts getting even stranger. He takes a blob of paint into a pen and draws an ovoid in the sky. It falls on Tom and cracks like an egg and the chase is on. Tom tries to get the pen to work but can't. Jerry whittles a point and the shavings become wooden shoes, which are then danced on as if there are a xylophone.
Suddenly, pretty much everything morphs into something else and the cartoon becomes surreal. Then Jerry draws three fruit/vegetable shapes, which sing, "Yes, We Have No Bananas". Jerry then elongates two of them into the standard couple in a melodrama and later makes the third shape into the villain and the bulk of the rest of the cartoon becomes a melodrama, with Jerry stepping in to draw solutions or dilemmas, seemingly on a whim. The ending is very good, so I won't spoil that here.
This cartoon, along with all the other cartoons in the series, are available on a two-disc DVD set from Thunderbean and it and the set are recommended.