Tex Avery Screwball Classics

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.[1][2] Volume 2 was released on both Blu-ray as well as on DVD on December 15, 2020, with 21 shorts.[3][4] Volume 3 was released on October 5, 2021, with 20 shorts.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Warner Archive Collection Announces "Tex Avery Screwball Classics" on Blu-ray". Animation Scoop. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  2. ^ "The Tex Avery Blu-ray Will Be Out February 18. Here's What's On It". Cartoon Brew. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  3. ^ "Warner Archive". Warner Archive. Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  4. ^ "Warner Archive Is Releasing A Second Volume Of Tex Avery Shorts". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  5. ^ @dawnofthediscs (2 September 2021). "***NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming to Blu-ray in October from @WarnerArchive Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ "Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3 Blu-ray (Warner Archive Collection)" – via www.blu-ray.com.