Tom and Jerry: The Deluxe Anniversary Collection

The Tom and Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection is a two-disc DVD set, released by Warner Home Video. It was released on June 22, 2010, the 70th anniversary of the release of the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot. To mark the occasion, Warner Bros. released a new DVD featuring 30 shorts.

All of cartoons on the first disc have been released on previous Tom and Jerry DVDs, especially the three previous Spotlight Collection volumes.

This collection completely excludes the Gene Deitch cartoons, likely as a result of the manufacturers wanting to market the US cartoons in this collection, as the Deitch-era ones were imported from Czechoslovakia.

Contents

Disc one

¹ denotes cartoons in the standard Academy ratio presented in newly remastered versions.

² denotes cartoons presented edited.

³ denotes cartoons presented cropped to fullscreen.

⁴ denotes cartoons presented in the CinemaScope aspect ratio using a letterbox widescreen transfer.

⁵ denotes cartoons who won an Academy Award.

1. Puss Gets the Boot¹
2. The Midnight Snack¹
3. Dog Trouble¹
4. Fraidy Cat¹
5. Puss n' Toots
6. The Lonesome Mouse - re-recorded audio track
7. The Yankee Doodle Mouse⁵
8. Mouse Trouble
9. Mouse in Manhattan
10. Quiet Please!⁵
11. The Milky Waif²
12. The Cat Concerto⁵
13. The Little Orphan^{2 5}
14. Saturday Evening Puss
15. The Two Mouseketeers⁵
16. Johann Mouse⁵
17. Touché, Pussy Cat!³
18. That's My Mommy³
19. The Egg and Jerry⁴
20. Tops with Pops⁴

Bonus features

Much Ado About Tom and Jerry (an 18-minute documentary about the history of Tom and Jerry)

Trailers (not on the Region 2 version)

Disc one notes

• Gene Deitch's "Dicky Moe" (1962) is prominently featured on a Disc 1 menu screen, but is nowhere on the set.

• Just as they were on the original release of the Spotlight Collection, Vol. 1, the shorts The Milky Waif and The Little Orphan have been edited to remove scenes where characters are shown in blackface. Likewise, as it had at one time been on Vol. 2, the short The Lonesome Mouse has redubbed dialogue (done by Thea Vidale) to remove the stereotypical dialect of the African American maid (Mammy Two Shoes).

Disc two

¹ denotes cartoons in the standard Academy ratio presented in newly remastered versions.

² denotes cartoons with their opening titles cut.

³ denotes cartoons that are new to DVD.

⁴ denotes cartoons presented cropped to fullscreen.

1. Excerpt from Anchors Aweigh (1945)
2. Excerpt from Dangerous When Wet (1953)
3. Pent-House Mouse (1963; Chuck Jones)
4. The Cat Above and the Mouse Below (1964; Chuck Jones)
5. The Cat's Me-Ouch (1965; Chuck Jones)
6. Cosmic Cat and Meteor Mouse (1975; from the TV series The Tom and Jerry Show, Hanna-Barbera)^{2 2}
7. Jerry's Country Cousin (1980; from the TV series The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, Filmation)^{2 3}
8. Flippin' Fido (1990; from the TV series Tom & Jerry Kids, Hanna-Barbera/Turner Entertainment) ^{1 3}
9. The Karate Guard (2005; Warner Bros. Animation)
10. Game of Mouse & Cat (2008; from the TV series Tom and Jerry Tales, Warner Bros. Television Animation) ⁴

Disc two notes

• The Mansion Cat (2001) is prominently featured on a Disc 2 menu screen but is not available on the set.

• As well "Cosmic Cat and Meteor Mouse", the premiere episode of The Tom and Jerry Show has been released as part of Warner Home Video's Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s Volume 2 on October 27, 2009; it marked the first home video release of both the 1975 made-for-TV version of Tom and Jerry and the 1980 series, which those two shows are not scheduled to have a complete series on DVD at this time.

Overall notes

• Similar to the Spotlight Collection DVDs, with the exception of the first five cartoons on Disc 1, none of the classic shorts on this DVD are restored, instead having been sourced from the 1995 Turner television transfers, right down to the point that almost all the Hanna-Barbera era cartoons were actually double-dips from all three Spotlight Collection DVDs. Even the one episode each of The Tom and Jerry Show and The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, and the three Chuck Jones era cartoons on Disc 2, are presented as 1990s Turner prints rather than remastered and restored.
  • In reverse, the Tom & Jerry Kids pilot episode "Flippin' Fido" is presented restored and remastered with it's recreated theatrical opening and closing title sequences on this DVD release.
• The Tom and Jerry Tales episode "A Game of Mouse and Cat" is presented in cropped 4:3 pan-and-scan format on this DVD release, as with it's original premiere broadcast on Kids WB, despite it being originally produced in 16:9 widescreen format.

Marketing reaction

Despite it being marketed for "Adult Collectors" and its fetching cover art, this set is panned by fans for the use of censorship involving the redubbed audio of Mammy Two Shoes and scenes being cut, as well as including the pan-and-scan versions of the CinemaScope shorts.