Warner Bros. Home Entertainment plans to give animation lovers a happy Valentines Day with the release of a collection of Academy Award-winning animated shorts on DVD. Titled Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Presents: Academy Award Animation Collection 15 Winner ’26 Nominees, the three-disc set will feature shorts available on DVD for the first time when it hits stores on Feb. 12.
Oscar-winning shorts to be featured on the DVDs include The Milky Way, Yankee Doodle Mouse, Mouse Trouble, Quiet Please, The Cat Concerto, Tweetie Pie, The Little Orphan, For Scent-Imental Reasons, So Much for so Little, Two Mouseketeers, Johann Mouse, Speedy Gonzales, Birds Anonymous, Knighty-Knight Bugs and The Dot and the Line. This is the first time Warner Bros. is featuring cartoon characters from the Merrie Melodies, Hanna-Barbera, MGM, Max Fleischer and Warner Bros. catalogs in one release.
‘Many of the featured shorts are legendary cartoons that are not often seen on television, and we think animation fans will be really excited to know they can finally own the very best of them in one collection,’ says Amit Desai, VP of family, animation and sports marketing for Warner Home Entertainment. ‘We made it our goal to truly showcase some of the finest cartoons ever made.’
A special feature titled Drawn for Glory: Animation’s Triumph At The Oscars will focus on the history of the Academy’s animated short subject category. The three-disc set will retail for $44.98, and a single disc including only the 15 winners will be available for the suggested retial price of $19.98. The discs will be released in conjunction with the 85th anniversary or Warner Bros. and the 80th Academy Awards ceremony.
