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Superman Store - Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees

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List Price: $44.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Starring: Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Superman Directed By: Joe Barbera, Bill Hanna, Chuck Jones, Max Fleischer
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0085391167846 Format: Animated Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2008-02-12 Running Time: 323 Studio: Warner Home Video
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Customer Rating:      Summary: Warner Bros. Comment: Fast shipping & quality merchandise. My husband is a fan of shows from his childhood and this is something he'll enjoy.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Academy Award winning cartoons Comment: Video came on time and is in good condition. Given as a gift so I can't review content.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Interesting Mix Comment: This is a very interesting compilation. Academy Award winners and nominees from the golden age of cartoons. Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Superman, and Looney Tunes are all here, along with some rarely seen cartoons like "Nelly's Folly" and "High Note". This would be a good start if you wanted to teach your kids about "the stuff we watched on tv growing up". I enjoyed this very much. One of my favorite cartoons of all time, "The Dot and The Line" is here which with the other raritys here make it worth it for me. Enjoy!
Customer Rating:      Summary: That's Oscar Folks! Comment: With the Academy Awards coming up soon, many moviegoers have been eagerly awaiting to see what film is the best of the best. Well, that also has been said with animated cartoons of the past. While Disney had won so many Oscar awards over the years, back in the 40's 50's and 60's, M.G.M., Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers all duked it out to see which company had the best in animation through Looney Tunes and classic gems in the spotlight. We've seen that appeal well with Tom & Jerry, and Sylvester winning so many Oscars from their shorts back during that height of animation, as well as other known gems get the nominatons, but faling shy of taking the prize. Now, those animated gems come together on one collection of nominees and Oscar-winners from the past.
Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection is a 3 disc DVD collection containing 42 animated shorts from the classic eras of golden animation that influenced the cartoons we see on television today. The shorts have all been restored nicely, and introduce the eras of greatness from gems by Friz Freleng, to the abstract inflluence of the legendary Chuck Jones, to the zaniness of Tex Avery. The first disc is all about the winners. All the cartoons on this first disc have taken the Oscar for best animated shorts, which include 3 shorts from Sylvester including Birds' Anonymous and Speedy Gonzales, to the controversial Tom & Jerry victory win of The Cat Concerto, which came about the same time as a Bugs Bunny gem which was similar called Rhapsody Rabbit, all the way to the Chuck Jones gems like The Dot & The Line and Pepe Le Pew's classic For Scent-imental Reasons, and Bugs Bunny's only Oscar-winning gem, Knighty Knight Bugs.
The second and third discs each contain greats that were at one time nominated for the Oscar, but fell short of collecting the prize. Some of these greats are here for the very first time on DVD including A Wild Hare, which Tex Avery helped in developing the debut of Bugs Bunny, as well as classic cult hits like the abstract use of sound effects to tell a story in the Chuck Jones great Now Hear This, What's Cookin' Doc? as a bonus where Bugs is invited to The Oscars but feels disgraced of losing to James Cagney, and Little Johnny Jet from M.G.M., which was one of the classic that helped influence movies like Disney's Cars, where a old-defeated fighter plane and his wife become proud arents of a baby jet plane.
All in all, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection- 15 Winners,26 Nominees is a great buy for anyone who is into classic animation from the past, and any die hard fan of Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes or just shorts that make you laugh out loud. It also is a delightful sampler for anyone who has yet to see the influences of the past that helped make great animation today. I really think this is a great compilation of greats from Warner Brothers, M.G.M. and Hanna-Barbera all in one that should be in your DVD collection. That is all Oscar Folks!
Shorts: B
Price: B 1/2-
Remastering: B+
Extras: C
Overall: B-
Customer Rating:      Summary: Academy Awards Animation Collection 15 Winners 26 Nominees Comment: The Academy Awards Animation Collection is a great collection with some of the best cartoons ever made on it. The two best cartoons on this collection are Peace On Earth and the Remake Good Will to Men. Plus the Bugs Bunny Cartoon A Wild Hare with the original Title Cards. The Cartoons on the collection are Restored and Remastered very well.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Best of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment – Academy® Award Winning and Nominated theatrical animated shorts. Category: Best Animated Short Subjects. Franchises include Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, MGM, Max Fleischer etc. 41 of the most celebrated cartoons of their time, including 15 award winners...plus over 60 minutes of special features! This collection has something for everyone with characters such as the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, Superman, Popeye, Dot, Line & Squiggle, Tex Avery’s "Little Johnny Jet", Chuck Jones’ "High Note", and Nelly’s Folly (the singing Giraffe) and Hubie Bertie & Cat Claude.
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