Due to the success of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection and Popeye DVD series, Warner Home Video issued a 3-DVD set on February 12, 2008 showcasing the various animation properties that they own including their home-grown product Looney Tunes. Other animation properties represented on this set were Tom and Jerry, Droopy, and other classic MGM cartoons as well as entries from Max Fleischer's Popeye and Superman series (both originally released by Paramount Pictures). All cartoons selected for this release were nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, with the exception of the film So Much for So Little which won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. A total of 41 cartoons (completely uncut and unedited) were chosen for this set, 15 of them being winners. Many of the Looney Tunes shorts featured on this collection have also been released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets, but this set also includes a handful of cartoons that have not been released on these Golden Collections. The cartoons A Wild Hare and Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt which were previously reissued as Blue Ribbons have their full original titles restored. The cartoon From A to Z-Z-Z-Z previously released as a Blue Ribbon, but retaining its full slate of credits was also presented on this set in its original format. All the Tom and Jerry shorts have been previously released on the Spotlight Collections, but most of them are presented here in remastered versions (the copies sourced for Mouse Trouble and Quiet Please! were old worn-out TV transfers). Three MGM cartoons, Touché, Pussy Cat!, Good Will to Men and One Droopy Knight are presented in their original Cinemascope aspect ratios. To this day, this is Warner's only DVD release of classic animation to feature a variety of different cartoon studios. Aside from this 3-DVD set aimed towards collectors, Warner also released a single DVD of just the 15 winners.
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All 15 cartoons on this disc won Academy Awards
| # | Title | Studio | Star(s) | Year | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Milky Way | MGM | 1940 | Rudolf Ising | |
| 2 | The Yankee Doodle Mouse | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1943 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 3 | Mouse Trouble | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1944 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 4 | Quiet Please! | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1945 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 5 | The Cat Concerto | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1946 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 6 | Tweetie Pie | Warner Bros. | Tweety Sylvester |
1947 | Friz Freleng |
| 7 | The Little Orphan | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1948 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 8 | For Scent-imental Reasons | Warner Bros. | Pepe Le Pew | 1949 | Chuck Jones |
| 9 | So Much for So Little | Warner Bros. | 1949 | Chuck Jones | |
| 10 | The Two Mouseketeers | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1951 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 11 | Johann Mouse | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1952 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 12 | Speedy Gonzales | Warner Bros. | Speedy Gonzales Sylvester |
1955 | Friz Freleng |
| 13 | Birds Anonymous | Warner Bros. | Tweety Sylvester |
1957 | Friz Freleng |
| 14 | Knighty Knight Bugs | Warner Bros. | Bugs Bunny Yosemite Sam |
1958 | Friz Freleng |
| 15 | The Dot and the Line | MGM | 1965 | Chuck Jones |
All 14 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win
| # | Title | Studio | Star(s) | Year | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Fleischer Paramount |
Popeye | 1936 | Dave Fleischer |
| 2 | Peace on Earth | MGM | 1939 | Hugh Harman | |
| 3 | A Wild Hare | Warner Bros. | Bugs Bunny Elmer Fudd |
1940 | Tex Avery |
| 4 | Puss Gets the Boot | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1940 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 5 | Superman | Fleischer Paramount |
Superman | 1941 | Dave Fleischer |
| 6 | Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt | Warner Bros. | Bugs Bunny | 1941 | Friz Freleng |
| 7 | Rhapsody in Rivets | Warner Bros. | 1941 | Friz Freleng | |
| 8 | The Night Before Christmas | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1941 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 9 | Blitz Wolf | MGM | 1942 | Tex Avery | |
| 10 | Pigs in a Polka | Warner Bros. | 1942 | Friz Freleng | |
| 11 | Swooner Crooner | Warner Bros. | Porky Pig | 1944 | Frank Tashlin |
| 12 | Walky Talky Hawky | Warner Bros. | Foghorn Leghorn Henery Hawk Barnyard Dawg |
1946 | Robert McKimson |
| 13 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1947 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 14 | Mouse Wreckers | Warner Bros. | Hubie and Bertie Claude Cat |
1948 | Chuck Jones |
The print of Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor featured on this set has the music from the a.a.p. ending logo (originally the ending music to Olive Oyl for President) on the end Paramount title.
All 12 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win
| # | Title | Studio | Star(s) | Year | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hatch Up Your Troubles | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1949 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 2 | Jerry's Cousin | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1950 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 3 | Little Johnny Jet | MGM | 1952 | Tex Avery | |
| 4 | Touché, Pussy Cat! | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1954 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 5 | From A to Z-Z-Z-Z | Warner Bros. | Ralph Phillips | 1953 | Chuck Jones |
| 6 | Sandy Claws | Warner Bros. | Tweety Sylvester Granny |
1954 | Friz Freleng |
| 7 | Good Will to Men | MGM | 1955 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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| 8 | Tabasco Road | Warner Bros. | Speedy Gonzales | 1957 | Robert McKimson |
| 9 | One Droopy Knight | MGM | Droopy | 1957 | Michael Lah |
| 10 | High Note | Warner Bros. | 1960 | Chuck Jones | |
| 11 | Nelly's Folly | Warner Bros. | 1961 | Chuck Jones | |
| 12 | Now Hear This | Warner Bros. | 1962 | Chuck Jones |
Below is a list of cartoons that were eligible for this DVD set, but got left off. The most likely explanation for excluding The Old Mill Pond was probably because of its politically incorrect content, caricaturing famous black jazz musicians as frogs, even though these caricatures are tame when compared to other cartoons of the era. Aside from that, the exclusion of the short It's Got Me Again may be because it is the only nominee that was not filmed in color.
The List: