Classic cartoon fans rejoice! It’s ghosts and mice and wolves not-so-nice! This April 21st, Cartoon Logic brings 18 newly restored 1940s Paramount Pictures cartoons to Blu-ray in their Famous Studios Champion Collection.

In cooperation with Paramount Pictures Archives, and newly restored from 4K scans of original studio materials, Cartoon Logic is proud to present the Famous Studios Champion Collection—a selection of the very best and most requested cartoons from the animation house’s neglected creators.

When Paramount Pictures reorganized its animated shorts operation as Famous Studios, so began a search for a new identity. Throughout the 1940s, the Famous talent began experimenting with new series’ and concepts aimed at varied audiences and created an array of beloved characters and hilarity still fondly remembered to this day.

Defined by funny animals waging war, fantasies coming to life, snappy music, and gorgeous candy-like Technicolor, the Famous Studios Champion Collection features 18 cartoons in all including: comic’s leading lady Little Lulu in two of her finest and funniest cartoons; the complete misadventures of 1940s screwball archetypes Blackie Sheep and Wolfie; and the earliest appearances of Famous superstars Little Audrey, Baby Huey, Herman the Mouse and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Included are:

1. No Mutton Fer Nuttin’ (1943)
2. The Henpecked Rooster (1944)
3. Suddenly It’s Spring! (1944)
4. A Lamb in a Jam (1945)
5. The Friendly Ghost (1945)
6. Bargain Counter Attack (1946)
7. Sheep Shape (1946)
8. Sudden Fried Chicken (1946)
9. Much Ado About Mutton (1947)
10. A Bout with a Trout (1947)
11. There’s Good Boos To-Night (1948)
12. Butterscotch And Soda (1948)
13. Readin’, ‘Ritin’, And Rhythmetic (1948)
14. Hep Cat Symphony (1949)
15. A Haunting We Will Go (1949)
16. Campus Capers (1949)
17. Our Funny Finny Friends (1949)
18. Quack-a Doodle-Doo (1950)

BONUS FEATURES:

• Optional audio commentary by Famous Studios experts Jerry Beck, Will Friedwald, Bob Jaques, Mike Kazaleh, Thad Komorowski and Rob Waldman
• Two “Mostly Lost” Cinecolor Noveltoons: Snuffy Smith in Spree for All (1946, black-and-white) and Buzzy the Crow in Cat O’ Nine Ails (1948, picture only as audio is non-extant)
• Production artwork galleries

About Cartoon Logic:

The Famous Studios Champion Collection comes on the heels of Cartoon Logic’s successful inaugural release, Aesop’s Fables – The 1920s, Volume 1, last November. Both releases are being distributed by ClassicFlix.

A unique label in today’s home video landscape, Cartoon Logic’s exclusive focus is on restoring classic animated shorts which have never been seen, or have only been available in muddy, hard-to-views prints. Several more releases are in the pipeline which will bring dozens of newly restored and long-neglected cartoons to animation fans the world over.