Repaired Tex Avery Cartoons
Tex Avery documentary by John Needham https://archive.org/details/vhsvault_Tex_Avery-t0
I originally retrieved these files from Archive dot Org as a Zip file of Tex Avery cartoons, but when I unzipped the archive: it was a mess in there.
There were duplicate files / files with bad starts or ends / missing or duplicate cartoon numbers / EVERY FILE had the EXACT Same "Title" tag (Tex Avery MGM Cartoons) which was NOT the Cartoon File Name (Making useless garbage out of ANY .m3u playlist you might wish to make of these files ... HA-HA-HA) / and several of them had deplorable A/V sync problems - I fixed "Half Pint Pygmy" and "Uncle Tom's Cabana" ... which were THREE Seconds out of Sync ... and a few which were 1 second off.
I fixed Many of these issues, with ALL of these files, and tried to upload the most decent copies of each of these that I had. Kinda like combing cooked spaghetti out straight ... I won't claim I boiled it though.
There WAS 1 Warner Brother's cartoon, by Fred Avery, mixed in - in the original collection ... likely one of the distant ancestors of the Wacky "Tex" Avery at MGM Studios cartoons to follow.
I finally uploaded it in April 2024 - so you could compare #43 "Swing Shift Cinderella" / with #01 "Cinderella Meets Fella" - for yourself.
I didn't know the original archive I found was missing "Lucky Ducky" until user "KoolKat05" asked where it was. Well, thank you for the feedback KoolKat05 … Lucky Ducky Me found a very nice copy of that at https://archive.org/details/lucky-ducky-ld and derived a shiny new MP4 file from the MKV Master - twice the size of the MP4 from that page. I didn't know that cartoon was missing - are there any others that never came with the original archive - and that I am still missing?
September 3rd, 2024: NOW you've got 68 cartoons Including "Lucky Ducky" - and "Blitz Wolf" is a rare 2021 restoration of an old War Cartoon. Enjoy!!
The Master M3U MGM Studios Playlist is here:
Your Tex Avery Sample Playlist All 68 cartoons play in order!
You can download it - and then edit this file with VLC Player: to make custom Tex Avery playlists of your own.
(Like this playlist featuring JUST Screwy Squirrel:
Your Screwy Squirrel Playlist )
Unaltered: The Master copy of the Playlist runs for 8 hours - and plays all 68 of these OLD Tex Avery MGM Cartoons in Alphabetical Order! Enjoy!!!
Download all 68 Cartoons at once HERE - so you'll have them forever (3.0 GB):
I urge you to do it NOW ... in case these disappear forever from the Archive (just like the original files I downloaded disappeared in December of 2023.).
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Last updated on September 3rd, 2024
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Reviewer: rmehta2779 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - October 1, 2024
Subject: Uncompressed files
Would you happen to have these files in uncompressed version? File sizes are extremely small, so was looking for these copies in a larger file size if available
Reviewer: SeaMac - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - September 3, 2024 (edited)
Subject: Lucky Ducky is added. Thank you for the feedback!!
To KoolKat05 - I got a zip archive of cartoons and never checked to see if the original uploader had accounted for them all. So, I did not know that at least one cartoon was missing.
Lucky Ducky is in the collection now, however - I got a 1 GB MKV copy of it from https://archive.org/details/lucky-ducky-ld and derived a NEW MP4 from that MKV Master - and I just added it to the collection. Lucky Ducky has a higher resolution than the rest in the collection. (That gag at 5:40 in - where the Lucky Ducky frightens the shotgun until it screams - and it's subsequent reaction - Always gets a big laugh out of me!)
Are there any more MGM Tex Avery missing?
The copy of Blitz Wolf is apparently a 2021 restoration - I'd never seen it before. I've seen Lucky Ducky before. That "Blitz Wolf" is rare, apparently.
Yeah, they are going to be in alphabetical order. I didn't get any original order in the ZIP Archive I found - it was a trainwreck in there. It might be better this way - I could remember the name, maybe - but not the year that it came out in, also.
Reviewer: KoolKat05 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - September 2, 2024
Subject: Great collection, where missing Lucky Ducky.
Great job with this collection of Tex Avery cartoons he made during his period in MGM. Very great high quality cartoons.
The only issue is that Lucky Ducky is missing here.
Also minor nitpick is that it's not in order but it that is it. Great list of cartoons.
Reviewer: Real Musician - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - March 27, 2024
Subject: Chapeau !!
You have done the work of an archaeologist !
Thank you very much for bringing me (and all of us) many good memories!
Reviewer: Ohgah1987 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - December 5, 2022
Subject: Thanks ! ALOT!
Thank you for your time and effort into fixing these. uploading. etc. these are my all time favorite cartoons.
Reviewer: Reynard Muldrake - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - August 2, 2022
Subject: Nice job!
It looks like a lot of work went into this, and it's truly appreciated. The shorts look and sound super. Kudos.
