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Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection | |
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Directed by | Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Ken Harris |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer |
Starring | Voice of Mel Blanc |
Music by | Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn, William Lava, George Daugherty |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection is a Blu-ray Disc box-set released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on December 1, 2020. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts starring Bugs Bunny and numerous bonus features and supplementary content. The set's packaging includes a slip book, a booklet, and a collectible Bugs Bunny Funko! POP doll. [1] [2]
Initially conceived by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as a single-disc Blu-ray Disc version of The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set with an additional Funko! doll, animation historian Jerry Beck convinced the department heads to extend the set to three discs and include cartoons not previously released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc in order to appeal to adult collectors. [3] The set includes 32 newly restored and remastered cartoons that were previously unavailable on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Blu-ray Disc sets, in addition to 20 "essential" shorts ported over from those previous collections. Eight cartoons ( Lumber Jack-Rabbit , Napoleon Bunny-Part , People Are Bunny , Person to Bunny , From Hare to Heir , The Million Hare and False Hare ) had been previously restored and released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVDs, however, this Blu-ray Disc set presents them in their original 4:3 aspect ratio (as opposed to the Super Stars sets which had them cropped to "widescreen"). According to Beck, with this collection along with the previous Golden and Platinum Collections, Looney Tunes fans and collectors would be able to own approximately 90% of Bugs Bunny's filmography. [4]
The set also marks the first official home media release of the Max series Looney Tunes Cartoons , with 10 Bugs Bunny centric episodes included as bonus features. [5] [6]
# | Title | Co-Stars | Release Date | Director | Series |
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1 | Rabbit of Seville | Elmer | December 16, 1950 | Chuck Jones | LT |
2 | Rabbit Every Monday (*) | Sam | February 10, 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
3 | The Fair-Haired Hare (*) | Sam | April 14, 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
4 | Rabbit Fire | Daffy, Elmer | May 19, 1951 | Chuck Jones | LT |
5 | His Hare-Raising Tale (*) | Clyde | Aug 11, 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
6 | Hare Lift (*) | Sam | December 20, 1952 | Friz Freleng | LT |
7 | Upswept Hare (*) | Elmer | March 14, 1953 | Robert McKimson | MM |
8 | Robot Rabbit (*) | Elmer | December 12, 1953 | Friz Freleng | LT |
9 | Captain Hareblower (*) | Sam | January 16, 1954 | Friz Freleng | MM |
10 | No Parking Hare (*) | May 1, 1954 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
11 | Yankee Doodle Bugs (*) | Clyde | August 28, 1954 | Friz Freleng | LT |
12 | Lumber Jack-Rabbit [n 1] | September 25, 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT | |
13 | Baby Buggy Bunny | December 18, 1954 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
14 | Hare Brush (*) | Elmer | May 7, 1955 | Friz Freleng | MM |
15 | This Is a Life? [n 2] | Daffy, Elmer, Sam | July 9, 1955 | Friz Freleng | MM |
16 | Rabbitson Crusoe (*) | Sam | April 28, 1956 | Friz Freleng | LT |
17 | Napoleon Bunny-Part [n 1] | June 16, 1956 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
18 | Half-Fare Hare (*) | August 18, 1956 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
19 | Piker's Peak (*) | Sam | May 25, 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
20 | What's Opera, Doc? | Elmer | July 6, 1957 | Chuck Jones | MM |
# | Title | Co-Stars | Release Date | Director | Series |
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1 | Bugsy and Mugsy (*) | Rocky and Mugsy | August 31, 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
2 | Show Biz Bugs | Daffy | November 2, 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
3 | Hare-Less Wolf (*) | February 1, 1958 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
4 | Now, Hare This (*) | B.B. Wolf | May 31, 1958 | Robert McKimson | LT |
5 | Knighty Knight Bugs | Sam | August 23, 1958 | Friz Freleng | LT |
6 | Hare-Abian Nights (*) | Sam | February 28, 1959 | Ken Harris | MM |
7 | Backwoods Bunny (*) | June 13, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
8 | Wild and Woolly Hare (*) | Sam | August 1, 1959 | Friz Freleng | LT |
9 | Bonanza Bunny (*) | Blacque Jacque | September 5, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM |
10 | People Are Bunny [n 2] | Daffy | December 19, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM |
11 | Person to Bunny [n 2] | Daffy | April 1, 1960 | Friz Freleng | MM |
12 | Rabbit's Feat (*) | Wile E. | June 4, 1960 | Chuck Jones | LT |
13 | From Hare to Heir [n 1] | Sam | September 3, 1960 | Friz Freleng | MM |
14 | Compressed Hare (*) | Wile E. | July 29, 1961 | Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble | MM |
15 | Prince Violent (*) | Sam | September 2, 1961 | Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt | LT |
16 | Shishkabugs (*) | Sam | December 8, 1962 | Friz Freleng | LT |
17 | The Million Hare [n 1] | Daffy | April 6, 1963 | Robert McKimson | LT |
18 | The Unmentionables (*) | Rocky and Mugsy | September 7, 1963 | Friz Freleng | MM |
19 | False Hare [n 1] | B.B. Wolf, Foghorn (cameo) | July 18, 1964 | Robert McKimson | LT |
20 | (Blooper) Bunny | Daffy, Elmer, Sam | June 13, 1997 | Greg Ford and Terry Lennon | LT |
What's Opera, Doc? is a 1957 American Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released on July 6, 1957, and stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
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Rabbit of Seville is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on December 16, 1950. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. The nonstop slapstick humor in the short is paced musically around the overture to Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's 1816 opera buffa The Barber of Seville. In 1994, Rabbit of Seville ranked number 12 in a list of "The 50 Greatest Cartoons" released in North America during the 20th century, a ranking compiled from votes cast by 1,000 artists, producers, directors, voice actors, and other professionals in the field of animation.
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