Old enough to remember this?

I hate to say it but yes, I remember watching that toon. Probably on a Saturday morning on our 1947 Philco black and white or at the movies before the movie started. Johnnyt
 
Thank you for that! It's wonderful! and the details show that someone on that team was a poolplayer. The room, the string, the cues, the bridge are all just right. Did you notice that the balls are the right colors?

Rep to you
 
Is that really that old? My son has seen it on tv and he's only 10. He just sat and watched it with me.
 
TX Poolnut said:
It was released in 1950.
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I was 8 or 9 in 1950. I didn't date yet but I was practicing by playing doctor with them in my fort/office in the woods. Johnnyt
 
I would of guessed early 60s because thats when I was watching Tom and Jerry so the 1950 date surprised me to. Enjoy it while you can it has been pulled for copy write infringements but resurfaces now and then.
 
Thanks for the reps Longhair. some more detail I noticed was the dart stile pool balls, the tables look allot like Brunswick anniversaries including the original red pockets. The other thing is the black ferrules on the cue were common back then.
 
Cuebuddy said:
Thanks for the reps Longhair. some more detail I noticed was the dart stile pool balls, the tables look allot like Brunswick anniversaries including the original red pockets. The other thing is the black ferrules on the cue were common back then.
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I noticed that as well. The original red pockets, the anniversary corner castings,
however the skirts and the legs are from the sport king. ;)

The last time I saw Tom and Jerry, Jerry was giving Tom the 6 ball :D
 
asiasdad said:
The last time I saw Tom and Jerry, Jerry was giving Tom the 6 ball :D
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You sure about that man, Tom has a STROKE!!! That cue ball he shot under Jerry hovered over the pocket and then drew back the length of the table. Mike Massey? Who's that?:D
 
jbullerjr said:
You sure about that man, Tom has a STROKE!!! That cue ball he shot under Jerry hovered over the pocket and then drew back the length of the table. Mike Massey? Who's that?:D
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Yeah, but Jerry handles the cue pretty good too. who else could shoot holding only the first 2 inches of a cue?
 
LOL, it's funny to watch these things tbh even when your old. I'm not that old too, right now I am 26 years old. and I saw this epidos on TV when I was 9 or 10. I still remember it! I also think it what got me into pool, for loving it ofcourse. and rest came after
 
Great stuff! That took me back to the Sat afternoon movies featuring Lash LaRue! Tom & Jerry followed by Yosemite Sam. It cost $.14 to go to a Saturday afternoon movie and I think that the LARGE heavily buttered popcorn was $.50... a dime for a fountain coke in a cup dispensed from a big machine. Followed by a Chuckles candy. Afterwards we'd go to Jackson's Pool Hall and usually get thrown out for being too young and have to go to the Y to play. Terrible tables at the Y but they had snooker and 3 cushion there.
 
JimS said:
Great stuff! That took me back to the Sat afternoon movies featuring Lash LaRue! Tom & Jerry followed by Yosemite Sam. It cost $.14 to go to a Saturday afternoon movie and I think that the LARGE heavily buttered popcorn was $.50... a dime for a fountain coke in a cup dispensed from a big machine. Followed by a Chuckles candy. Afterwards we'd go to Jackson's Pool Hall and usually get thrown out for being too young and have to go to the Y to play. Terrible tables at the Y but they had snooker and 3 cushion there.
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Movie was $0.14 but popcorn was only $0.25 in the movies I went to in NY. Those dime soda maches were great. You went to a house or building that was being built and pick-up the quarter size slugs from the electrical boxes. We heated them and thinned them a bit with a hammer and put them in soda machine and got cup of soda plus $0.15 change. I did that 4 or 5 times during the movie to pay for my date. Johnnyt
 
Wow!!! This cartoon was actually my introduction to pool! I mean, I had never heard nor seen of the game prior to seeing this cartoon as a child back in the mid 70s. I was fascinated from the start! When my mother signed me up for after-school pottery classes at the local rec center and I saw the two tables sitting on the first floor, I knew IMMEDIATELY I wasn't going to be terribly interested in making many vases.

The first day, I went up to the kids playing on the old 9-foot table and asked to play. I must've been 8-years-old. One of the big kids was very nice and asked, "Do you know how?" I said, "Sure!' having seen this Tom & Jerry cartoon. Not convinced, the big kid replied, "Okay, remember you have to hit the white ball first and you should hold the cue like a pencil." Actually, this was pretty good advice for someone who was probably no more than 10 years old. My bridge really hasn't changed much since.
 
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