Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection
The Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection is a series of two-disc DVD sets released by Warner Home Video. Originally planned as an uncensored, chronological set, the issued "Spotlight Collection" sets include selected "Tom and Jerry" shorts on each volume. "Volume 1" was released on October 19, 2004, "Volume 2" on October 25, 2005, and the third and final volume on September 11, 2007. On October 15, 2019, the set, which consists of 4 discs, was repackaged with some errors fixed. Contents. The following 113 shorts were directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at  the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in Hollywood, California. All shorts were released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1940 and 1958. The original MGM Hanna-Barbera classics are a total of 114 shorts. Section::::"Spotlight Collection". A superscripted one ( ) denotes cartoons presented in the CinemaScope aspect ratio using a new anamorphic widescreen transfer. Disc 1. Disc one contains shorts from the 1940s. Disc 2. Disc 2 contains shorts from the 1950s. Section::::"Spotlight Collection, Vol. 2". A superscripted one ( ) denotes cartoons in the standard Academy ratio presented in newly remastered versions. A superscripted two ( ) denotes cartoons presented in the CinemaScope  aspect ratio using a new anamorphic widescreen transfer. Disc 1. Disc 1 contains shorts from the 1940s. Disc 2. Disc two contains shorts from the 1950s. Section::::"Spotlight Collection, Vol. 3". "Vol. 3" completes the Hanna-Barbera "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, save for "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat". According to a Warner Home Video press release, these cartoons were omitted from the set for racial stereotyping. (These cartoons are presented uncut on the European PAL DVD set "", with "Mouse Cleaning" appearing on Vol. 2 and "Casanova Cat" appearing on Vol. 3 of this series.) Disc 1. Disc one contains non-CinemaScope  shorts. Disc 2. Disc two contains shorts presented in the CinemaScope format. Censorship. The "Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection" sets contain shorts that have been altered from their original versions. The first set contains three shorts that were edited from the originals ("The Milky Waif", "The Truce Hurts", and "The Little Orphan"), which Warner stated was a mistake. All three of these shorts originally included various characters in blackface. A disc replacement program began at the end of 2006, two years after the set's initial release. Later releases of the set have been corrected. The second volume contains four  shorts ("The Lonesome Mouse", "Polka-Dot Puss", "Saturday Evening Puss" and "Nit-Witty Kitty") with edited sound tracks. These four shorts contained a redubbed Mammy Two Shoes audio track, instead of the original. Similarly to the first volume, Warner instated a disc replacement program, and later reprints contain the original Mammy Two Shoes tracks. The final volume contains an edited version of "His Mouse Friday" (1951). The shorts "Mouse Cleaning" (1948) and "Casanova Cat" (1951) were omitted from the set due to their inappropriate racial stereotypes, according to a statement from Warner Home Video. These two shorts were the only  original Tom and Jerry shorts not present in the Spotlight Collection series, however, the two shorts are on the European Classic Collection.