The “Fox 75th Anniversary Collection” still hasn’t officially been announced, but pre-orders are being taken at both Amazon and DVD Empire, where the 75-movie set, listing for $500, is being discounted for $375 (Amazon) or $412 (DVD Empire). The latter is listing a Dec. 7 release date — kind of odd for a set that doesn’t even include “Tora! Tora! Tora!”

Both sites list all of the titles, and as I predicted here recently, the sole DVD debut in the set is the Oscar-winning “Cavalcade,” which was released two years before the merger of the Fox Film Corp. (founded 1915) and 20th Century Productions that the box is ostensibly celebrating. The only other films from the ’30s (there are none from the teens or the ’20s) are John Ford’s “Steamboat ‘Round the Bend” with Will Rogers, included in two previous box sets, and the Technicolor Shirley Temple vehicle “The Little Princess” (1939), which did not look all that wonderful in its previous official DVD iteration from Fox, though better than the dozens of public-domain versions that have circulated for years.

“Fox 75th Anniversary Collection” is heavily weighted toward films released over the last 23 years, with a 30-title volume spanning “Wall Street” to “Avatar.” There are 23 titles released between 1961 (“The Hustler”) and 1985 (“Cocoon”) and just 22 representing the studio’s first 45 years. Except for the two earliest titles, there are not exactly any adventurous choices — and virtually all of them are available in smaller sets that Fox has already released for the anniversary. Somewhere, Darryl Zanuck is weeping because it doesn’t include the film he was most proud of “Wilson” (1944), still MIA on DVD. (Hat tip: Home Theater Forum),