Colourful Cartoon Collision

An asteroid (at least I think that’s what is it) collides with Tom in “Mouse into Space” (released March 1962), an MGM cartoon directed by Gene Deitch (though the animation director was Vaclav Bedrich). The first four drawings are consecutive frames.



The collision is accompanied by the “Boinnnggg!” sound effect endeared to many from Deitch’s Popeye cartoons for TV.

The Deitch cartoons were the only shorts MGM was releasing by this time; no travelogues, no sports reels, not even a Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry rerun.