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• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002TJR92M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,341 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Thunderbean is proud to present this new 2 disc collection features all 26 of Van Beuren's wonderfully odd Tom and Jerry cartoons. Other than in name, these little gems have very little in common with the later MGM/ Hanna-Barbara Tom and Jerry series, but are much fun just the same. They are easily some of the funniest and strangest cartoons to come from the Van Beuren Studio. Transferred from the best available 16mm and 35mm material; excellent quality with original titles restored and recreated. Bonus features include liner notes, A slide gallery featuring The Tom and Jerry Children's book 'The Jolly Plumbers', bonus Waffles and Don cartoons, home movie edition boxes, Tom and Jerry's influence on Egyptian animation (!) and more! This is the only collection to ever gather all 26 together.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete "TOM AND JERRY" Van Beuren Studio, December 10, 2009

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Luisa Felix (Hoboken, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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I received "The Complete Animated Adventures of Van Beuren Studio's
TOM AND JERRY" animated films on DVD and was thrilled, it is a real
treasure. These cartoons are a great example of rubber-hose-arms-and-legs animation, an excellent study for all cartoonists and
animators everywhere. It shows animation can have great storyplots
and music added together with simplicity and imagination and lots
of whimsy. Original films like "WOT A NIGHT" and "ROCKETEERS" and
"PIANO TUNERS" and "PENCIL MANIA" and "TIGHT ROPE TRICKS" and
"JOINT WIPERS" and "POTS AND PANS" is tops human TOM & JERRY
animation at its most excellent. Viewing this is great for school
teaching of animation, for inspiration of making animation yourself, and can show you more information than a dozen animation
books put together. Make effort to get this DVD, or you will forever regret it.----- Cartoonist Luisa Felix, Hoboken, New Jersey.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like finding lost treasure!, March 15, 2010

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A. Gammill (West Point, MS United States) - See all my reviews
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I'm a big fan of early sound cartoons, and am often frustrated in my search for good, clean prints of them. I'm happy to report that these restorations from Thunderbean are far and away the best copies I've ever seen of these forgotten Tom and Jerry shorts. As others have said, anyone with even a casual interest in early animation simply must see these.

What you're getting (and for a very attractive price) is all 26 of Van Beuren Studio's T & J shorts, plus 4 bonus "Waffles and Don" (sort of a primitive animated Abbott & Costello meets Felix the Cat duo), and a handful of essays and promotional materials from the vaults.

For the uninitiated who may not have seen a Van Beuren Tom and Jerry cartoon, you're in for a treat. These were the anything-goes days of cartoons, where characters were exaggerated, inanimate objects sprang to life, and music was a major theme. And while their humble antics paled next to the more-polished efforts of Disney or other major studios, these rough-and-tumble little gems have a unique charm that really sets them apart.

It is also unlikely that better prints will ever surface, so place your order now and support this labor of love from Thunderbean. Highly recommended.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cartoon Classics from the Thirties, December 14, 2009

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Norm Smith (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews

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These are black and white cartoons that are fun and naively un-PC. They are genuinely "anything can happen" cartoons - which is what cartoons should be.

A well packaged set with informative extras. A bargain.