Press Release from Warner Home Video

BURBANK, CA – Consumers will be in pursuit of Warner Home Video’s (WHV) latest Tom and Jerry Blu-ray and DVD release featuring 37 re-mastered, cartoon shorts available on Blu-ray hi-def for the first time October 25, 2011. Titled Tom & Jerry The Golden Collection Volume 1, this entertaining compilation features a definitive lineup of theatrical shorts directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Through the use of Blu-ray technology, the set presents the work of the renowned animation duo with superior picture quality. Each cartoon has been re-mastered from the best surviving/earliest generation film elements in order to create a reproduction that is most faithful to the original. The set includes Academy Award-winning/nominated shorts and bonus material. This release will retail for $26.99 SRP (standard DVD) and $34.99 SRP (Blu-ray).

Tom and Jerry have chased their way over the funny bones and into the hearts of moviegoers, television viewers and Internet users for generations. The iconic team’s earliest adventures are unleashed inside this delightful two-disc collection of 37 Re-mastered shorts and bonus features.

Among the 37 cartoons showcased on Tom & Jerry The Golden Collection Volume 1, four are Academy Award® winners (Best Short Subject: Cartoons). They include The Yankee Doodle Mouse*, which finds Tom and Jerry engaging in warfare using household objects; Mouse Trouble*, where Tom follows the ill-fated advice of a book on how to catch mice; Quiet Please!* in which Spike warns Tom not to make a sound while he naps and The Cat Concerto*, featuring Tom playing a concerto on a piano Jerry happens to be napping in.

The collection also has three Academy Award® nominated shorts, Puss Gets the Boot**, which stars a feline named “Jasper” and an unnamed mouse.  Puss Gets the Boot**, not only catapulted the then-unnamed Tom and Jerry to meteoric stardom but also served as the launching pad for the collaborative efforts of another gifted legendary duo, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Tom and Jerry creators.  Other Oscar® nominated shorts included are The Night Before Christmas** and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse**.

Bonus material on the DVD includes an excerpt from the 1945 live action film Anchors Aweigh, in which Jerry performs a dance routine with the legendary Gene Kelly.

Tom & Jerry The Golden Collection Volume 1
Disc One
Puss Gets the Boot
The Midnight Snack
The Night Before Christmas
Fraidy Cat
Dog Trouble
Puss N’ Toots
The Bowling Alley-Cat
Fine Feathered Friend
Sufferin’ Cats!
The Lonesome Mouse
The Yankee Doodle Mouse
Baby Puss
The Zoot Cat
The Million Dollar Cat
The Bodyguard
Puttin on the Dog
Mouse Trouble
The Mouse Comes to Dinner
Mouse in Manhattan
Tee for Two

Disc Two
Flirty Birdy
Quiet Please!
Springtime for Thomas
The Milky Waif
Trap Happy
Solid Serenade
Cat Fishin’
Part Time Pal
The Cat Concerto
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
Salt Water Tabby
A Mouse in the House
The Invisible Mouse
Kitty Foiled
The Truce Hurts
Old Rockin’ Chair Tom
Professor Tom
EC:
New Retrospective Featurette: Vaudeville, Slapstick and Tom and Jerry
Two Vintage Featurettes: How Bill and Joe Met Tom and Jerry and The Comedy Styling of Tom and Jerry
Commentary on Nine Key Cartoons by Noted Animation Experts
Anchors Aweigh Dance Sequence with Jerry and Gene Kelly

“Just as we’ve done with Looney Tunes collections in the past, our goal was to present consumers with a quality, comprehensive collection featuring some of the best and brightest Tom and Jerry, material we could find,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, WHV Executive Marketing Director of Non-Theatrical Franchise. She added, “If you’re a Tom and Jerry fan or animation connoisseur, Tom & Jerry The Golden Collection Volume 1
is a definite, must-own Blu-ray or DVD for your home entertainment collection.”