Landing Striping was the 6th Tom and Jerry film to be directed by Gene Deitch and the 120th Tom and Jerry cartoon overall.
In this short film, a little yellow bird wearing a littler red helmet annoys Tom and Tom gives chase. Jerry tries to help protect the bird. This is a rare Tom and Jerry short, where Tom's animosity never turns towards Jerry.
This is possibly the weakest of the theatrically released Tom and Jerry cartoons. The film does however have what should be a solid cartoon premise and in some ways is similar to some of the films featuring Jerry befriending Quacker the duck or the little canary. It is the execution that is truly terrible. None of the gags are especially good and the delivery of them is even worse. The timing is horrible, and the drawings are often downright poor. The sound effects here are even more annoying than in the other Gene Deitch shorts. This is especially true of the sound effects that surround the little bird character, which are not only distracting but also very irritating. The music here is also very distracting and annoying. This is just a poor short all around.
The credited animation director for this film is Wáclaw Bedřicz. Eli Bauer gets a story credit and Štěpán Koníček gets a music credit. Gene Deitch himself provided the "boing-boing-boing" sound effects. This cartoon is avilable on the DVD sets, Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection and Tom and Jerry: Classic Collection Volume 5.
-Michael J. Ruhland
Resources Used
https://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-best-of-tom-and-jerry.html
https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Landing_Stripling