Hanna-Barbera's Complete Tom and Jerry filmography on Video soon

 

(Many thanks to Don Yowp's blog Tralfaz to provide this announcement.)

This is something like a release that would be nearly impossible to make it happen on any official Home Video release again. The only time such achievements was done for the 1940-1958 Tom & Jerry series was in the 1990s: The two Art of Tom and Jerry laserdiscs from MGM/UA. 

But when Warner Home Video has released three 2-disc sets of Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection on DVD by the mid-00s, they were savaged by tons of negative reviews by either, lots of unreamstered shorts, missing scenes involving blackface gags, the "redubbed" Maid voice, (Please, stop call it Mammy Two-Shoes, by be something only the internet has found her name!) an inherent streched ratio sequence error from possibly the weakest T&J short, His Mouse Friday or bad aspect ratio from Pup on a Picnic. For some reason, discs replacements were offered to consumers later, that even a 2020s re-release of the whole series on 4 discs was offering to retail. Sadly, still not Mouse Cleaning or Casanova Cat.

Until now...

Because Warner Bros.-Discovery and Warner Archive are going to finished the 85th anniversary of the duo on a high note, the very definitive and complete Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology 1940-1958 is going to found a release on DVD and Blu-Ray by December 2th. And all efforts were made in purpose to include the fewer missing outings that the Warner Home Video of old has refused to selected due to blackface stereotypes. (Though in this series, these gags came more peripheral than the racist, crude and cringe-worthy stereotypes that would figured on cartoons about Indians, black Americans, Mexicans or Asians like the way the Warner Bros. shorts of old has done in years.)

And for the first time in decades, the two unreleased series' shorts to discs, Mouse Cleaning and Casanova Cat are going to be added. And we hope that the drecked scene error from His Mouse Friday to be fix as well.

This is going to be the third compilation from the MGM series of the year. The new release will be available BOTH on DVD and Blu-Ray. The DVD contains five discs including every of the 114 theatrical shorts and 20 audio commentaries while the Blu-Ray offering a supplementary disc contained three hours of bonus materials, 2 all-new documentaries and a collectible 28-page booklet with artworks and essays. This is a collection that will appeal either, the must-have collectors, families and the mere enthusiastic fan of classic animation. To say nothing that Warner Archive has also make reality the complete original program of The Huckleberry Hound Show on Blu-Ray the past month, for the first time ever.

In case you wondered what the two others compilations were released this year, read these here and here.