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The history of Tom and Jerry on DVD is kind of dicey. At first they came out with compilations aimed at kids and because of that any bit that had less than PC humor was altered or cut.
Then, They started to release Tom and Jerry in a more collector aimed release. However, the first 2 releases were plauged with (again) PC edited shorts when uncut ones were promised (even when the second volume had a non skipable disclaimer about the non PC racial gags by Whoopi Goldberg). Warner Bros. made good on providing uncut shorts by a mail disc exchange program (which I took advantage of). The third and last volume though omited a couple of the dicey PC ones though making the 3 volumes a not quite complete collection of the first wave of Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts.
In the 60's MGM revived Tom and Jerry with Chuck Jones in control and those shorts come on a seperate volume and then there are the bizarre Gene Dietz shorts which are still not released.
The DVD transfers were often not the best for the earlier shorts as well as the original film elememts were hard to locate.
A lot of them have been tracked down for this new blu ray set (and it is also released on DVD) so the new transfers on most of these shorts are freakishly vibrant and sharp (after years of being used to creaky 16 mm films on weekday afternoons and the DVD transfers which were somewhat better than those). And they have all the non PC material intact ( but you have to see an unskipable text disclaimer for about 43 seconds until you can get to the menu).
Volume 2 is supposed to be in the works. One of the things I hope they do is as well as including the non PC versions of the cartoons is to included the revised segments for those non PC toons that Chuck Jones was asked to do in the 1960's
In a few of the more popular Tom and Jerry shorts that were playing on TV Chuck jones was asked to reanimate the segments with Mammy into a thin irish woman voiced by June Forey. As time went on and with local TV stations showing them, the revised animation would often get mixed with the wrong soundtrack and vice versa. Kids in the 60's and 70's could've been treated to the sight of a thin white woman with a stereotypical Mammy voice or a large black woman sounding like an Irish lady (the unaltered original was also in circulation).
But anyway, back to Volume one, they have ads for other releases and one of them was this movie made recently where they teamed up Tom and Jerry with The Wizard of Oz. That's right Tom and Jerry live on Dorothy's farm and end up going over the rainbow with her. The Wizard Of Oz characters are based on the movie versions since Warner Bros. owns that as well as Tom and Jerry.
I wonder who came up with this "Hey, lets put Tom and Jerry into the Wizard Of Oz!". I am curious about it ans as luck would have it, it was being shown last weekend on the Cartoon Network so I have it on the DVR.
The history of Tom and Jerry on DVD is kind of dicey. At first they came out with compilations aimed at kids and because of that any bit that had less than PC humor was altered or cut.
Then, They started to release Tom and Jerry in a more collector aimed release. However, the first 2 releases were plauged with (again) PC edited shorts when uncut ones were promised (even when the second volume had a non skipable disclaimer about the non PC racial gags by Whoopi Goldberg). Warner Bros. made good on providing uncut shorts by a mail disc exchange program (which I took advantage of). The third and last volume though omited a couple of the dicey PC ones though making the 3 volumes a not quite complete collection of the first wave of Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts.
In the 60's MGM revived Tom and Jerry with Chuck Jones in control and those shorts come on a seperate volume and then there are the bizarre Gene Dietz shorts which are still not released.
The DVD transfers were often not the best for the earlier shorts as well as the original film elememts were hard to locate.
A lot of them have been tracked down for this new blu ray set (and it is also released on DVD) so the new transfers on most of these shorts are freakishly vibrant and sharp (after years of being used to creaky 16 mm films on weekday afternoons and the DVD transfers which were somewhat better than those). And they have all the non PC material intact ( but you have to see an unskipable text disclaimer for about 43 seconds until you can get to the menu).
Volume 2 is supposed to be in the works. One of the things I hope they do is as well as including the non PC versions of the cartoons is to included the revised segments for those non PC toons that Chuck Jones was asked to do in the 1960's
In a few of the more popular Tom and Jerry shorts that were playing on TV Chuck jones was asked to reanimate the segments with Mammy into a thin irish woman voiced by June Forey. As time went on and with local TV stations showing them, the revised animation would often get mixed with the wrong soundtrack and vice versa. Kids in the 60's and 70's could've been treated to the sight of a thin white woman with a stereotypical Mammy voice or a large black woman sounding like an Irish lady (the unaltered original was also in circulation).
But anyway, back to Volume one, they have ads for other releases and one of them was this movie made recently where they teamed up Tom and Jerry with The Wizard of Oz. That's right Tom and Jerry live on Dorothy's farm and end up going over the rainbow with her. The Wizard Of Oz characters are based on the movie versions since Warner Bros. owns that as well as Tom and Jerry.
I wonder who came up with this "Hey, lets put Tom and Jerry into the Wizard Of Oz!". I am curious about it ans as luck would have it, it was being shown last weekend on the Cartoon Network so I have it on the DVR.
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