"Fraidy Cat" animators

[CueBallCat79]

Maybe someone can help me out with a Tom and Jerry animator I see a lot in the earliest shorts but whose name I don't know. I'm just using "Fraidy Cat" as an easy reference.

Now the opening is Jack Zander, right? I think I have that figured out. And Irve Spence is all over the vacuum cleaner scene, unmistakably. But who is doing the scenes of Tom getting burned by the heater and panting by the closet door? This animator's Tom is good stuff and has a lot of personality.

And what of George Gordon, who I know lasted until "Yankee Doodle Mouse"? I think I've got a bead on what his style is but sometimes I have to second guess myself. Did he work on "Fraidy Cat"? Is that his stuff in the scene in which Tom figures everything out and Jerry, not knowing Tom is right behind him, continues to click away on the switch of a vacuum cleaner?

Then I guess the mystery animator and Irve Spence (or is it Gordon??) finish off the cartoon. Where's Kenneth Muse? I don't see him anywhere in this cartoon.

I dont know what's harder...picking out animators in the early 40s T&J cartoons or doing the same thing with the late 50's cartoons.

It's crazy, years back I guess I was more jaded and couldnt really place Spence stuff til around "Yankee Doodle Mouse". Now I see him everywhere those first few years. I guess my eye towards spotting things in these cartoons got better.

[Frank]

Maybe someone can help me out with a Tom and Jerry animator I see a lot in the earliest shorts but whose name I don't know. I'm just using "Fraidy Cat" as an easy reference.

Now the opening is Jack Zander, right? I think I have that figured out. And Irve Spence is all over the vacuum cleaner scene, unmistakably. But who is doing the scenes of Tom getting burned by the heater and panting by the closet door? This animator's Tom is good stuff and has a lot of personality.

And what of George Gordon, who I know lasted until "Yankee Doodle Mouse"? I think I've got a bead on what his style is but sometimes I have to second guess myself. Did he work on "Fraidy Cat"? Is that his stuff in the scene in which Tom figures everything out and Jerry, not knowing Tom is right behind him, continues to click away on the switch of a vacuum cleaner?

Then I guess the mystery animator and Irve Spence (or is it Gordon??) finish off the cartoon. Where's Kenneth Muse? I don't see him anywhere in this cartoon.

I dont know what's harder...picking out animators in the early 40s T&J cartoons or doing the same thing with the late 50's cartoons.

It's crazy, years back I guess I was more jaded and couldnt really place Spence stuff til around "Yankee Doodle Mouse". Now I see him everywhere those first few years. I guess my eye towards spotting things in these cartoons got better.

We are not really sure who animated Tom on the heater then pants in front of the vacuum cleaner. We just call him the mystery animator. The closest candidates for the mystery animator is either Paul Sommers or Ray Abrams. I personally think it is Ray Abrams because I have seen that style in Blitz Wolf were the wolf gets stunned by the screamer bomb, and when he gets shot by all the bullets when he is holding on to a artillery piece. Kenneth Muse's animation wouldn't appear until the end of 1942. He animates a very short scene in Fine Feathered Friend and does the opening scenes and the ending of Sufferin Cats. About George Gordon, yes you got it right. He did animate the scene where Tom discovers it's Jerry who is scaring him on the vacuum cleaner, but he also animated the ending of the cartoon where Tom accidentally attacks the maid thinking it is Jerry.