Thanks to fellow IADer Derek S., it has been brought to my attention that a good chunk of the Woody Woodpecker cartoons are up on this YouTube channel in HD, rescanned and restored. They're all in Arabic but who cares? Lantz cartoons in HD! Go nuts!

https://www.youtube.com/...UCne3lo_nGGA0LTiMP9SBHIQ 

It's also been pointed out that new sound effects have been added to these dubs. The sound mixing is leagues above North Hampton Partners' Cartoon Crazys efforts, but still...why? Hoping these sound effects won't be added to any restorations posted on the English Woody Woodpecker YouTube channel.

EDIT: I've been pointed to more uploads from the Saudi Arabia channel and...I'm not digging these colors, sorry to say. From what I've seen, the new transfers lean way too much on the red side. It reeks that pretty much every release of these cartoons has a snafu or two involved.

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I checked it out and made a list, here's what in HD as of now:
Woody Woodpecker (1941)
The Screwdriver (1941)
Pantry Panic (1941)
The Hollywood Matador (1942)
Ace in the Hole (1942)
The Loan Stranger (1942)
The Screwball (1943)
The Barber of Seville (1944)
The Beach Nut (1944)
Ski for two (1944)
Chew Chew Baby (1945)
Woody Dines Out (1945)
The Loose Nut (1945)
The Reckless Driver (1946)
Fair Weather Fiends (1946)
Woody the Giant Killer (1947)
Wet Blanket Policy (1948)
Wild and Woody (1948)
The Woody Woodpecker Polka (1951)
Born to Peck (1952)
Termites from Mars (1952)
Under the Counter Spy (1954)
Niagara Fools (1956)
The Bird who came to Dinner (1961)

Tell me if I missed any if I did

It's also been pointed out that new sound effects have been added to these dubs. The sound mixing is leagues above North Hampton Partners' Cartoon Crazys efforts, but still...why? Hoping these sound effects won't be added to any restorations posted on the English Woody Woodpecker YouTube channel.

Isn't it usual of foreign dubs to have added sound effects? I swore I heard some from international Looney Tunes with that effect from a long time ago on the web. Although, I might be misremembering.

It's also been pointed out that new sound effects have been added to these dubs. The sound mixing is leagues above North Hampton Partners' Cartoon Crazys efforts, but still...why? Hoping these sound effects won't be added to any restorations posted on the English Woody Woodpecker YouTube channel.

Isn't it usual of foreign dubs to have added sound effects? I swore I heard some from international Looney Tunes with that effect from a long time ago on the web. Although, I might be misremembering.

No, it's not usual. Dubs are produced using so-called Music & Effects tracks -- and in most cases, those tracks are identical to the original audio versions. There can be exceptions, but they're rare.

It's also been pointed out that new sound effects have been added to these dubs. The sound mixing is leagues above North Hampton Partners' Cartoon Crazys efforts, but still...why? Hoping these sound effects won't be added to any restorations posted on the English Woody Woodpecker YouTube channel.

Isn't it usual of foreign dubs to have added sound effects? I swore I heard some from international Looney Tunes with that effect from a long time ago on the web. Although, I might be misremembering.

No, it's not usual. Dubs are produced using so-called Music & Effects tracks -- and in most cases, those tracks are identical to the original audio versions. There can be exceptions, but they're rare.

Do music-and-effects tracks even exist for the Lantz cartoons? particularly the earlier ones?

It's also been pointed out that new sound effects have been added to these dubs. The sound mixing is leagues above North Hampton Partners' Cartoon Crazys efforts, but still...why? Hoping these sound effects won't be added to any restorations posted on the English Woody Woodpecker YouTube channel.

Isn't it usual of foreign dubs to have added sound effects? I swore I heard some from international Looney Tunes with that effect from a long time ago on the web. Although, I might be misremembering.

No, it's not usual. Dubs are produced using so-called Music & Effects tracks -- and in most cases, those tracks are identical to the original audio versions. There can be exceptions, but they're rare.

Do music-and-effects tracks even exist for the Lantz cartoons? particularly the earlier ones?

I would think so. The Woody cartoons have come out on DVD in dubbed versions here in Norway, including the 40s cartoons. I haven't watched the dubs myself, but I'd find it strange if they had gone in and added SFX.

Personally, I have also grown up with a number of classic Disney shorts from the 1930s in later dubbed versions. I have never noticed any sound differences between the dubs and the original English tracks, save of course for the voices. I think studios preserved Music and Effects tracks for their films from pretty early on (some countries/markets probably wanted dubs even back in the infancy of sound film).