Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection DVD

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Title................................: Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection DVD

Street Date: 5/15/07

Release year.........................: 1954

Language.............................: English

Runtime..............................: more minutes

Genre................................: Family | Animation | Western | Short | Comedy

Color................................: Color (Technicolor)

IMDb rating..........................: biggy

Link 1...............................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046930/
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Subtitles............................: N/A

Source (DVD/DVDR 5,9)..................: DVD 9

Total movie's files size...............: 8.4GB

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Video compression mode...............: MPEG-2

TV system (NTSC/PAL).................: NTSC 525/60 Hz

Aspect ratio.........................: 16:9

Source picture resolution............: 720x480

Number of subtitles..................: 0

Subtitle language/s..................: Not available

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Audio coding mode....................: Dolby Digital (AC3)

Sampling rate........................: 48kHz

Number of audio channels.............: 2

Bitrate..............................: CBR (constant bit rate)

Number of audio streams..............: 1

Audio stream language/s..............: English

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Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection DVD



Street Date: 5/15/07



Synopsis:



Droopy, a detective basset hound, lulls the bad guys into a false sense

of security by acting slow and dumb when in actual fact he is a genius.

The shrewd Droopy always outwits his enemies! Droopy Dog was a low-key

animated movie character created by Tex Avery at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in

1943, this mournful deadpan witty Basset hound detective who spoke in a

jowly monotone voice and, though he didn't look like much, was shrewd

enough to outwit his enemies - the conniving Butch the Irish bulldog

and the thieving, nasty wolf and English Fox.



Episodes:



1 - Dumb-Hounded - (1943)

The Shooting Of Dan McGoo - (1945)

Wild And Woolfy - (1945)

Northwest Hounded Police - (1946)

Senor Droopy - (1949)

Wags To Riches - (1949)

Out-Foxed - (1949)

The Chump Champ - (1950)

Daredevil Droopy - (1951)

Droopy's Good Deed - (1951)

Droopy's "Double Trouble" - (1951)

Caballero Droopy - (1952)

The Three Little Pups - (1953)

Drag-A-Long Droopy - (1954)

Homesteader Droopy - (1954)

Dixieland Droopy - (1954) 16x9 LETTERBOX

Deputy Droopy - (1955)

Millionaire Droopy - (1956) 16x9 LETTERBOX

Grin And Share It - (1957) 16x9 LETTERBOX

Blackboard Jumble - (1957) 16x9 LETTERBOX

*One Droopy Knight - (1957) 16x9 LETTERBOX

Sheep Wrecked - (1958) 16x9 LETTERBOX

Mutts About Racing - (1958) 16x9 LETTERBOX

Droopy Leprechaun - (1958) 16x9 LETTERBOX



The two-disc set Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

contains all 24 Droopy theatrical shorts, the last seven of which were

originally shot in CinemaScope and are here presented in widescreen.

The entire Droopy collection is an excellent example of Tex Avery’s

trademark high-speed, madcap, gag-filled style—even the final six,

which were directed by Michael Lah instead of Avery. One glance at

this collection reveals how his innovative style still influences such

animated shows as The Family Guy today.



That Avery’s work—and Droopy is no exception—also frequently contains

adult themes is even addressed on the slipcase with a note about this

set being intended for adult collectors only. In contrast to the modern

notion of cartoons being primarily for children, Avery’s shorts

(and those of many other animation directors of the time)

were intended for adult audiences and included heavy doses of drinking,

smoking and sexual situations



The beauty of a collection such as this is that it provides great insight

into how the characters, gags and style developed over time. Droopy himself

starts off very much an actual hound dog, eventually evolving into a human

in the guise of a dog. Avery will play anything for a joke, and his bag

of tricks frequently include breaking the fourth wall and the use of

live-action/animation mixed media. Interestingly enough, a frequent

target of his humor is television. Avery levels numerous disparaging

jokes at the new form of media, reflecting both the movie industry’s

opinion of and concern over its growing competition—a true sign of the times.



Not surprisingly, gags are frequently repurposed and many of the latter

Droopy shorts duplicate storylines in those that came before, resetting

them in a new time and place. Even the Oscar-nominated One Droopy Knight

borrows heavily from the earlier shorts. The most extreme example of this

reuse, however, comes in Millionaire Droopy, a nearly perfect copy of Wags

to Riches reformatted in CinemaScope. The character art and movement is

identical to the earlier film; only the backgrounds have changed,

taking on the style of new producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera



Each disc of Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection opens with

a warning from Warner Brothers about the racist and sexist content in some of

the cartoons and that Warner, while not condoning the views thus expressed,

would not censor them under the belief that denial of the existence of

prejudice is equally as damaging as its actual existence. Not only do

I applaud Warner for taking this stand (in contrast to Disney’s refusal

to release Song of the South on DVD), I would add that any such reediting

to remove offensive material is a violation of artistic integrity,

no matter how offensive such material may be.



Video / Audio / Extras



All of the cartoons are presented in their original aspect ratio.

As mentioned previously, only the last seven were shot in CinemaScope

and are shown here in widescreen; the rest are Academy Ratio.

The CinemaScope shorts sport all-new transfers and look absolutely fantastic,

completely clean with vibrant color. Sadly, the other shorts were not given

the same treatment and thus suffer from dust and scratches, the degree

to which varies with the age of each cartoon. Audio quality is fortunately

maintained across the entire collection, with diligent restoration applied

to all of the shorts.



Final Words



Hands down, an excellent collection.