Most Looney Tunes I see on Boomerang are still TV prints, but I saw some restored versions of A Mouse Divided, Napoleon Bunny-part and Knighty Knight Bugs recently.

Most Looney Tunes I see on Boomerang are still TV prints, but I saw some restored versions of A Mouse Divided, Napoleon Bunny-part and Knighty Knight Bugs recently.

Same with PAL only prints of certain cartoons, but they did recently air NTSC prints of "Odor of the Day" (1948) and "Design for Leaving" (1954), but they are non-remastered prints.

A Mouse Divided was actually a 1998 dubbed print without the "This Version" byline.

It looks like the Pan & Scan and 16:9 cropped versions are the same they air in the UK but with a big difference, all the shorts are unedited.

Then again, it's probably not good news because all the shorts which do not have HD masters (like Mouse for Sale) will never air again.

Come again? Why would the 1955 Tom and Jerry short Mouse For Sale not have an HD master?

Because the Golden Collection Volume 2 included the shorts up to Posse Cat. The rest of the Academy Ratio shorts are not restored yet.

Because the Golden Collection Volume 2 included the shorts up to Posse Cat. The rest of the Academy Ratio shorts are not restored yet.

You're wrong -- ALL of the Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry shorts have been restored in high definiton by this point. Evidence for this has been observed and mentioned frequently by many members of this forum over the last few years.

You have to realize the following: Warner Brothers are no longer restoring content like this just for a tentative Blu-ray edition. Tom and Jerry is one of their evergreen franchises. They have restored the entirety of the old theatrical T&J library to have HD remasters ready for any broadcaster etc. who might want them.

In this day and age, high-definition restoration of library content is being done as an investment for the future as much as for any specific release. There will always be a value in having the original Tom and Jerry shorts available in HD.

Because the Golden Collection Volume 2 included the shorts up to Posse Cat. The rest of the Academy Ratio shorts are not restored yet.

You're wrong -- ALL of the Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry shorts have been restored in high definiton by this point. Evidence for this has been observed and mentioned frequently by many members of this forum over the last few years.

You have to realize the following: Warner Brothers are no longer restoring content like this just for a tentative Blu-ray edition. Tom and Jerry is one of their evergreen franchises. They have restored the entirety of the old theatrical T&J library to have HD remasters ready for any broadcaster etc. who might want them.

In this day and age, high-definition restoration of library content is being done as an investment for the future as much as for any specific release. There will always be a value in having the original Tom and Jerry shorts available in HD.

Well if that's the case, then I'm hoping if by the time they now feel comfortable releasing the censor 2 cartoons in remastered quality, then we will see the remaining remastered T&J cartoons on home video as part of the Warner Archive collections.

Mesterius you're wrong on that one.

I watch Tom and Jerry shorts on the RSI La 1 channel which always gets the most up to date masters (they even had the Deitch shorts all remastered only 3 months after the DVD came out) and the shorts from Hic Cup Pup to Pecos Pest were the old masters.

If they actually bothered to remaster them in the last year (and I doubt it), I've never seen those versions anywhere.

Mesterius you're wrong on that one.

I watch Tom and Jerry shorts on the RSI La 1 channel which always gets the most up to date masters (they even had the Deitch shorts all remastered only 3 months after the DVD came out) and the shorts from Hic Cup Pup to Pecos Pest were the old masters.

If they actually bothered to remaster them in the last year (and I doubt it), I've never seen those versions anywhere.

Well, damn... it appears you're right! :O

In my mind I felt certain I had seen samples of remastered Tom and Jerry cartoons from the entire Hanna-Barbera run... but looking into it, I couldn't find evidence of a single remastered cartoon in the Academy aspect ratio from that short, 15-film period you mention.

I think because the unremastered films constitute such a short period (April 1954-November 1955), I have just assumed in my mind that the films inbetween all the HD samples I've seen had also gotten restored. Especially since four of the films within this period have seen remasterings in their Cinemascope versions -- so that leaves only 11 Hanna-Barbera T&J shorts which have never been restored in any format. Considering the small number, I'm still surpriced that Warner hasn't just said already, "well, let's get these restored too so that we have the entire classic library available in HD". But I guess they haven't.

(Speaking of which: I would really love to see the Academy-formatted versions of those four films mentioned above restored as well -- watching them, it feels obvious to me that they were designed in Academy ratio first, even though they were produced in two separate versions which even differ in details like background paintings. But what is the likeliness these days of some T&J films getting a DOUBLE restoration? Sigh.)

In any case: sorry, my mistake. (And I'm REALLY disappointed with Warner Brothers right now.)