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Tex Avery Screwball Classics (2021)

Tex Avery Screwball Classics poster
Original title
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3
Directed by
Tex Avery
Genre
animation, comedy, family
Country
United States
Rated
G
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

How it feels

This is a collection of classic cartoon shorts from director Tex Avery, made for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. The sets bring together restored versions of his comedies, many available on disc for the first time.

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What happens

Tex Avery Screwball Classics is a series of single-disc Blu-ray and DVD sets by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Warner Archive unit collecting various theatrical cartoons from animation director Tex Avery during his tenure at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio's cartoon division between the years of 1942 and 1955. It is the first comprehensive collection of Avery's MGM shorts to be released on home media in North America since The Compleat Tex Avery series of laserdiscs in the 1990s, with many of the shorts having been previously unreleased on DVD or Blu-ray. Volume 1 was released on Blu-ray on February 18, 2020, and on DVD on December 1 with 19 shorts, all presented uncut and digitally restored. Volume 2 was released on both Blu-ray as well as on DVD on December 15, 2020, with 21 shorts. Volume 3 was released on October 5, 2021, with 20 shorts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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