Famous Studios Champion Collection - On Bluray April 21st

[Leviathan]

In April, the very first authorized collection of 40's Famous Studios Cartoons will be on disc. Sanctioned by Paramount and restored from the negs or best surviving film elements.

Famous Studios Champion Collection

Famous Studios Champion Collection (Blu-ray) - ClassicFlix

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Synopsis

In cooperation with Paramount Pictures Archives, and newly restored from 4K scans of original studio materials, Cartoon Logic is proud to present the Famous Studios Champion Collection—a selection of the very best and most requested cartoons from the animation house’s neglected creators.

When Paramount Pictures reorganized its animated shorts operation as Famous Studios, so began a search for a new identity. Throughout the 1940s, the Famous talent began experimenting with new series’ and concepts aimed at varied audiences and created an array of beloved characters and hilarity still fondly remembered to this day.

Defined by funny animals waging war, fantasies coming to life, snappy music, and gorgeous candy-like Technicolor®, the Famous Studios Champion Collection features 18 cartoons in all including: comics’ leading lady Little Lulu in two of her finest and funniest cartoons; the complete misadventures of 1940s screwball archetypes Blackie Sheep and Wolfie; and the earliest appearances of Famous superstars Little Audrey, Baby Huey, Herman the Mouse and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Included are:

1. No Mutton Fer Nuttin’ (1943)
2. The Henpecked Rooster (1944)
3. Suddenly It’s Spring! (1944)
4. A Lamb in a Jam (1945)
5. The Friendly Ghost (1945)
6. Bargain Counter Attack (1946)
7. Sheep Shape (1946)
8. Sudden Fried Chicken (1946)
9. Much Ado About Mutton (1947)
10. A Bout with a Trout (1947)
11. There’s Good Boos To-Night (1948)
12. Butterscotch And Soda (1948)
13. Readin’, ‘Ritin’, And Rhythmetic (1948)
14. Hep Cat Symphony (1949)
15. A Haunting We Will Go (1949)
16. Campus Capers (1949)
17. Our Funny Finny Friends (1949)
18. Quack-a Doodle-Doo (1950)

BONUS FEATURES:

• Optional audio commentary by Famous Studios experts Jerry Beck, Will Friedwald, Bob Jaques, Mike Kazaleh, Thad Komorowski and Rob Waldman
• Two “Mostly Lost” Cinecolor Noveltoons: Snuffy Smith in Spree for All (1946, black-and-white) and Buzzy the Crow in Cat O’ Nine Ails (1948, picture only as audio is non-extant)
• Production artwork galleries

 

[Low Spark of Lyman]

It will also be on DVD: Famous Studios Champion Collection - ClassicFlix

 

[Pooky]

That sample of The Friendly Ghost looks amazing, the first three Casper shorts are in the public domain and many of the prints out there are awful, there are particularly poor versions on the otherwise (to my eyes) perfectly fine Shout Factory Casper DVD set from 2011. Seeing it look so nice is a treat.