Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Safety Second is a 1950 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 51st Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. The working title for this cartoon was F''r Safety Sake before Hanna and Barbera finally settled for Safety Second. The short was animated by Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Al Grandmain, scored by Scott Bradley and released on the 1st of July 1950, just in time for the American Independence Day celebrations of that year. The title is pun on the phrase Safety Last!.