owned feature films as well on the bonus disc of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 Blu-ray in 2012. Several cartoons were also included as bonus features on various classic Warner Bros. In France, a DVD box set containing almost all of Avery's MGM cartoons was released in 2002, sourced from the 1990s Turner remasters with many censored for racial content, including omitting two cartoons, Uncle Tom's Cabaña and Half-Pint Pigmy.
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According to animation historian Jerry Beck and Warner Archive Senior Vice President George Feltenstein, this lack of availability was because most of the original film negatives to pre-1951 MGM cartoons were destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire leaving only inferior duplicate copies, mainly mid-1990s Turner broadcast television masters as seen on the Ted Turner-owned cable networks Cartoon Network and Boomerang that were unsuitable for HD releases. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Tex Avery's MGM cartoons were notably absent on DVD and Blu-ray, except on a small selection of classic 1940s-1950s MGM feature film DVDs as bonus features. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, MGM and Turner Entertainment released VHS and Laserdisc collections of Avery's work, such as the Tex Avery Screwball Classics sub-series of Cartoon Moviestars VHS tapes, and The Complete Tex Avery laserdisc collection in 1993. In addition, Blitz Wolf and Little Johnny Jet were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 19 respectively, and Magical Maestro was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically important" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1993. Four of Avery's MGM cartoons, Red Hot Riding Hood, King-Size Canary, Bad Luck Blackie, and Northwest Hounded Police, were included in The 50 Greatest Cartoons book in 1994 as selected by 1,000 animation professionals. Many animation fans and historians consider this period of Avery's career to be his finest output and amongst the best cartoons of the Golden Age of American Animation. Between the years of 19, Avery directed over 60 one-shot cartoons with only a handful of reoccurring characters such as Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior and Droopy.
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Īfter spending a few months at Paramount Pictures developing a short-lived series of live-action comedy shorts named Speaking of Animals, Avery was hired by the MGM cartoon studio. In 1941, after a dispute with Schlesinger over the ending of the Bugs Bunny cartoon The Heckling Hare, Avery was "suspended" from the studio.
Here, Avery had developed the Looney Tunes signature style of cartoon humor and was essential in the creation and/or development of many of the studio's star characters, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and most notably Bugs Bunny. Tex Avery worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions directing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Bros.
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