This 2-disc set of 40 restored and remastered cartoons is a marvel of animation and music, including 9 Academy Award nominees and 7 winners.
Musical highlights include The Cat Concerto , The Zoot Cat (bass-playing, scat-singing, swing-dancing cool jazz cat), Johann Mouse (this waltzing mouse lives with Johann Strauss), Anchors Away dance sequence with Jerry and Gene Kelly, The Hollywood Bowl (with dueling cat-and-mouse orchestra conductors).
Meet the composer Scott Bradley and the MGM Orchestra in the special feature Behind the Tunes, to see how the emotionally expressive music and instrumentation coordinates with the animation. Cartoon music pushed the limits of modern harmony and even used 12-tone scales, artfully incorporating classical music, pop and Broadway tunes, original music and sound effects to serve as a kind of humorous Greek chorus for the animated actors.
332 min. DVD Set.
