Tex Avery toons coming from Warner Archive *

No details yet folks, but enjoy the video teaser!

Warner Archive on Twitter

 

Did he also do the original "Cars-as-people" cartoon, where the baby car grows up to want to be a hot-rod?

 

I believe so. There's also the airplane mom and dad with a baby jet.

 

Here's a list of Tex's cartoons for MGM (owned by Warner)

1 Blitz Wolf 42
2 The Early Bird Dood It! 42
3 Dumb-Hounded 43
4 Red Hot Riding Hood 43
5 Who Killed Who? 43
6 One Ham's Family 43
7 What's Buzzin' Buzzard 43
8 Screwball Squirrel 44
9 Batty Baseball 44
10 Happy-Go-Nutty 44
11 Big Heel-Watha 44
12 The Screwy Truant 45
13 The Shooting of Dan McGoo 45
14 Jerky Turkey 45
15 Swing Shift Cinderella 45
16 Wild and Woolfy 45
17 Lonesome Lenny 46
18 The Hick Chick 46
19 Northwest Hounded Police 46
20 Henpecked Hoboes 46
21 Hound Hunters 47
22 Red Hot Rangers 47
23 Uncle Tom's Cabaña 47
24 Slap Happy Lion 47
25 King-Size Canary 47
26 What Price Fleadom 48
27 Little 'Tinker 48
28 Half-Pint Pygmy 48
29 Lucky Ducky 48
30 The Cat That Hated People 48
31 Bad Luck Blackie 49
32 Señor Droopy 49
33 The House of Tomorrow 49
34 Doggone Tired 49
35 Wags to Riches 49
36 Little Rural Riding Hood 49
37 Out-Foxed 49
38 The Counterfeit Cat 49
39 Ventriloquist Cat 50
40 The Cuckoo Clock 50
41 Garden Gopher 50
42 The Chump Champ 50
43 The Peachy Cobbler 50
44 Cock-a-Doodle Dog 51
45 Daredevil Droopy 51
46 Droopy's Good Deed 51
47 Symphony in Slang 51
48 Car of Tomorrow 51
49 Droopy's Double Trouble 51
50 Magical Maestro 52
51 One Cab's Family 52
52 Rock-a-Bye Bear 52
53 Little Johnny Jet 53
54 T.V. of Tomorrow 53
55 The Three Little Pups 53
56 Drag-a-Long Droopy 54
57 Billy Boy 54
58 Homesteader Droopy 54
59 The Farm of Tomorrow 54
60 The Flea Circus 54
61 Dixieland Droopy 54
62 Field and Scream 55
63 The First Bad Man 55
64 Deputy Droopy 55
65 Cellbound 55

 

Great news. The world always needs a Tex Avery cartoon.

 

I'm all over this set. Warner has done a stellar job with their Popeye cartoon restorations and even leaves in banned shorts for completeness.

 

Way Way overdue. I'm in.

 

Yes, but are these censored? That's the big question.

 

I don't think any of the Warner Archive cartoon releases have been censored so far, but I suppose we'll have to wait for the official announcement and specs.

If they are teasing this with the twitter video, I'd suspect the announcement won't be too far off.

 

Friz Freleng did one before Tex did.

Check out Streamlined Greta Green from 1937.

 

I think @vince was asking about 'One Cab's Family'

I can't find the full cartoon, but here's a portion to jog yer memory.



In this cartoon the father cab can't keep up with his son, because he has a souped up engine and zooms around really fast. I think the family ends up with many souped up/fast car babies.

Popular enough that Tex made this:

Tex Avery MGM Cartoons - Little Johnny Jet (1953) Restored Opening Title & Closing

with the same premise, this time using prop plane parents and a baby jet.

 

Very much looking forward to buying this. Used to love to watch the Tex cartoons on tv when I was a kid.

 

I realize Avery’s “One Cab’s Family” was being referenced, but @vince had written “the original cars-as-people cartoon” (emphasis mine).

While there could be an earlier cartoon in the same vein out there, “Streamlined Greta Green” did come out 15 years before Avery’s effort.

 

Did Tex also do that cartoon in which all the phrases people used are shown literally?
The one I remember in particular is the one where someone asked, "Cat got your tongue?", and they cut to a cat, with a sinister look on his face, and he shows a tongue in his paw!

 

It looks like the cover says "Theatrical Shorts(?) Volume 1". There's only one disc pictured inside the case. Can they fit 65 cartoons on one Blu-ray? Hopefully we get all of them. Or it could end up like Tom and Jerry, where they decide to leave off a few offensive shorts from volume 2, fans complain, and they end up giving us nothing instead.

 

They might be able to cram 30 to 35 shorts on one blu-ray, and could quite possibly get all of the shorts on 2 volumes.

I'm fairly certain other Warner Archive cartoon titles were not censored, so there is some hope that we will get all the toons here.

Wasn't the Tom & Jerry set a mass retail marketed set?
That could explain the reason for the omissions, where as the Archive is more of a niche marketing thing that one needs to actively order from unlike a retail store that might get more casual purchases of titles. (did that make sense?)

Meaning that someone who actively orders from the Archive is more likely to know what content they are purchasing, as opposed to the casual purchase by a mom or dad in a retail situation seeing the set (Tom & Jerry) and purchasing on a whim for their kids.

 

New info!

Warner Archive Announces February Releases

Here's the text if you don't want to click the link

There were several masters of animation during Hollywood's golden era. Of the top two geniuses, one created elaborate fairy tales and ornate feature-length fantasias – the other guy was Tex Avery. He just wanted to make you laugh. Having already been integrally involved in the development of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros., Avery moved to MGM in 1941 to create a set of comedy masterpieces that defined a new slapstick style for animation, inspiring cartoonists, comedians and filmmakers for decades to come. Avery's unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer was all about breaking the fourth wall, shattering expectations and making audiences fall down with laughter. His one-shot masterpieces, including Bad Luck Blackie, Red Hot Riding Hood and Symphony in Slang, have proven themselves pure gold. And continuing characters like Droopy, Screwball Squirrel and George & Junior – not to mention Spike, Red and The Wolf – remain unforgettable comic personas among the top rank of cartoondom. Avery's cartoons were ahead of their time – and their time has come. Finally committed to Blu-ray™, this first collection of restored Technicolor® shorts feels fresh and new, and is funnier than ever. This set will delight young and old – and will amaze a new generation ready to laugh again. – JERRY BECK, Animation Historian

Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW 4K MASTERS FROM ARCHIVAL ELEMENTS
Content:

Tex Avery Classics
RED HOT RIDING HOOD
WHO KILLED WHO?
WHAT'S BUZZIN BUZZARD?
BATTY BASEBALL
THE HICK CHICK
BAD LUCK BLACKIE
GARDEN GOPHER
THE PEACHY COBBLER
SYMPHONY IN SLANG

Screwy Squirrel
SCREWBALL SQUIRREL
THE SCREWY TRUANT
BIG HEEL-WATHA
LONESOME LENNY

George & Junior
HOUND HUNTERS
RED HOT RANGERS

Droopy
DUMB HOUNDED
WAGS TO RICHES
THE CHUMP CHAMP
DAREDEVIL DROOPY



19 shorts on this disc VOLUME ONE

Hopefully they will release all of Tex's MGM shorts over three or four volumes (fingers crossed)

There are 65 cartoons (see post #5 in this thread) and two remakes:
66 Millionaire Droopy 1956 remake of Wags of Riches
67 Cat's Meow 1957 remake of Ventriloquist Cat

 

Any info on if these will be factory pressed silver discs? I ask because Warner seems to be fond of the MOD route in some cases.

 

All of Warner Archive blu-ray discs are pressed discs, only their DVDs are DVD-Rs.

 

Magical Maestro isn't here. I always thought of that one being one of the very best Tex Avery MGM shorts. Either that's a good sign that they're saving it and volume 2 is going to happen, or they left it off due to the offensive stereotype gags.

 

Well, none of the other Warner Archive animation releases have edited or excised cartoons, so I doubt they are going to start now.

 

“Big Heel-Watha” is fairly offensive too, so I’d say Warner Archive is merely trying to spread the better films around.

This set is also missing “King-Size Canary”, “Little Rural Riding Hood”, and “Northwest Hounded Police”.

To me, it looks like they’re going to divide the Droopy cartoons among each of the volumes, and maybe put a Red cartoon on each set as well.

Whatever the case might be, there is definitely going to be a “for adult collectors” disclaimer on the back of the packaging.

 

Yes you could complain about what's not here or you could just buy the bloody thing and be thankful we finally have Tex Avery on a physical digital media format on this side of Greenland.