Tex Avery Screwball Classics

[alstin]

Does anybody know the content of these tapes??? any good stuff??? If so, please tell me. I want to know if I should rent it at Blockbuster.

[Thad Komorowski]

"Swing Shift Cinderella"
"Lucky Ducky"
"Magical Maestro"
"Who Killed Who?"
"Symphony in Slang"
"The Cat That Hated People"
"Little Tinker"
"Bad Luck Blackie"

Since four of the cartoons are currently censored on CN, I'd reccommend getting it! :)


-Thad

[Matt Yorston]

Seeing as how you said "these tapes" (as opposed to "this tape"), I'm assuming you're referring to the whole series (there were 4 volumes). Here are the contents of the other 3...

VOL. 2
Red Hot Riding Hood
One Ham's Family
Happy Go Nutty
Slap Happy Lion
Wild and Wolfy
Ventriloquist Cat
Big Heel-Watha
Northwest Hounded Police

VOL. 3
The Screwy Truant
The House of Tomorrow
The Flea Circus
Hound Hunters
Batty Baseball
TV of Tomorrow

VOL. 4
What Price Fleadom
TV of Tomorrow
The Counterfeit Cat
The Blitz Wolf
The Cuckoo Clock
What's Buzzin',Buzzard?

Hope this clears up any question. BTW, were all 4 volumes available at Blockbuster or just Volume 1?

[Joe Tully]

As Thad said, all cartoons on all of these tapes are uncensored. Vol. 4 is a great video that will get you the uncensored (and rare, only shown on CN during The Wartime Cartoons) Blitz Wolf and uncensored What Price Fleadom?

I never understood why TV of Tomorrow was on Vol 3 and 4. What were they thinking? Maybe they got it confused with another one of Tex's "Tomorrow" cartoons? :confused:

[Matt Yorston]

I'm not sure if this is fact but I have heard that the second cartoon originally scheduled for SCREWBALL CLASSICS 4 was "Uncle Tom's Cabana" (1947). As strange as this sounds, they were actually considering releasing it to video but this was around the same time "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" being released to video was causing controversy so I guess they decided not to risk it and include a last-minute replacement cartoon instead.

I heard that somewhere. It's possible that, since it was "Last-minute", they may have wanted to include one of Tex's other "tomorrow" cartoons but messed things up somewhere along the line.

[Jon Cooke]

I remember seeing "Uncle Tom's Cabana" listed among the contents of SCREWBALL CLASSICS 4 in a Suncoast catalog years ago (which was obviously printed before the tape was released). Needless to say, when I finally found a copy of the tape I was a bit disappointed to find "TV of Tomorrow" again (but the tape is still worth getting for the uncensored print of "Blitz Wolf"!). I think Amazon.com still has all four volumes in stock.



-Jon