Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1

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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1
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DVD-cover
Directed by Chuck Jones
Friz Freleng
Robert McKimson
Bob Clampett
Arthur Davis
Abe Levitow
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Eddie Selzer
John W. Burton
Starringvoice of Mel Blanc
Music by Carl Stalling
Milt Franklyn
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Release date
October 28, 2003 (2003-10-28)
Running time
411 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. The first release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. [1] The set won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards. [2]

Contents

In Regions 2 and 4, the discs were packaged as follows:

In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Premiere Collection (also known as Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 1 ).

Disc 1 - Best of Bugs Bunny

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
#TitleCo-starsRelease dateDirectorSeries
1 Baseball Bugs The Gashouse Gorillas Baseball Team February 2, 1946 Friz Freleng LT
2 Rabbit Seasoning Daffy, Elmer September 20, 1952 Chuck Jones MM
3 Long-Haired Hare June 25, 1949 Chuck Jones LT
4 High Diving Hare Sam April 30, 1949 Friz Freleng LT
5 Bully for Bugs August 8, 1953 Chuck Jones LT
6 What's Up Doc? Elmer June 17, 1950 Robert McKimson LT
7 Rabbit's Kin Pete Puma November 15, 1952 Robert McKimson MM
8 Water, Water Every Hare Gossamer April 19, 1952 Chuck Jones LT
9 Big House Bunny Sam April 22, 1950 Friz Freleng LT
10 Big Top Bunny December 1, 1951 Robert McKimson MM
11 My Bunny Lies over the Sea December 4, 1948 Chuck Jones MM
12 Wabbit Twouble Elmer December 20, 1941 Bob Clampett MM
13 Ballot Box Bunny Sam October 6, 1951 Friz Freleng MM
14 Rabbit of Seville Elmer December 16, 1950 Chuck Jones LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Bugs: A Rabbit For All Seasonings: A look at Warner Bros. (and Looney Tunes) most popular wascally wabbit, Bugs Bunny.
  • Short-Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam: A look at Yosemite Sam, the fiery redheaded cowboy character that served as one of Bugs' many adversaries.
  • Forever Befuddled: A look at Elmer Fudd, the naive (and often neurotic) everyman and hunter who also was one of Bugs' many adversaries.

Others

Disc 2 - Best of Daffy & Porky

#TitleDaffy, Porky or Both?Co-starsRelease dateDirectorSeries
1 Duck Amuck Daffy Bugs February 28, 1953 Chuck Jones MM
2 Dough for the Do-Do Porky September 2, 1949 Friz Freleng MM
3 Drip-Along Daffy Both Nasty Canasta November 17, 1951 Chuck Jones MM
4 Scaredy Cat Porky Sylvester December 18, 1948 Chuck Jones MM
5 The Ducksters BothSeptember 2, 1950 Chuck Jones LT
6 The Scarlet Pumpernickel Both Elmer, Henery, Sylvester, Mama Bear, Melissa March 4, 1950 Chuck Jones LT
7 Yankee Doodle Daffy BothJune 5, 1943 Friz Freleng LT
8 Porky Chops Porky February 12, 1949 Arthur Davis LT
9 The Wearing of the Grin Porky July 14, 1951 Chuck Jones LT
10 Deduce, You Say! BothSeptember 29, 1956 Chuck Jones LT
11 Boobs in the Woods BothJanuary 28, 1950 Robert McKimson LT
12 Golden Yeggs Both Rocky August 5, 1950 Friz Freleng MM
13 Rabbit Fire Daffy Bugs, Elmer May 19, 1951 Chuck Jones LT
14 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century Both Marvin July 25, 1953 Chuck Jones MM

Special features

Audio bonuses

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Hard Luck Duck: A profile on Daffy Duck.
  • Porky Pig Roast: A Tribute to the World's Most Famous Ham: A look on Porky from his early black and white beginnings to the development of Mel Blanc, who brought to the character the famous stutter.
  • Animal Quackers: A look at the teaming of Daffy with his ultimate foil, Porky Pig and the introduction of Marvin The Martian and the Duck Dodgers In The 24½ Century persona.

Others

  • Camera Three: The Boys From Termite Terrace: Part 2 (1975)
  • Stills gallery

Disc 3 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 1

Cartoons 1-12 are directed by Chuck Jones (10 co-directed by Abe Levitow), 13 and 14 by Bob Clampett.
#TitleCharactersRelease dateSeries
1 Elmer's Candid Camera Elmer, Happy Rabbit March 2, 1940MM
2 Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears Bugs, The Three Bears February 26, 1944MM
3 Fast and Furry-ous Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner September 17, 1949LT
4 Hair-Raising Hare Bugs, Gossamer May 25, 1946MM
5 Awful Orphan Charlie, Porky January 29, 1949MM
6 Haredevil Hare Bugs, K-9, Marvin July 24, 1948LT
7 For Scent-imental Reasons Pepé, Penelope November 12, 1949LT
8 Frigid Hare Bugs, Playboy Penguin October 8, 1949MM
9 The Hypo-Chondri-Cat Claude Cat, Hubie and Bertie April 15, 1950MM
10 Baton Bunny Bugs January 10, 1959LT
11 Feed the Kitty Marc and Pussyfoot February 2, 1952MM
12 Don't Give Up the Sheep Ralph and Sam January 3, 1953LT
13 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid Bugs, Beaky July 11, 1942MM
14 Tortoise Wins by a Hare Bugs, Cecil February 20, 1943MM

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Too Fast, Too Furry-ous: A look at the creation of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons, Chuck Jones' famous chase cartoon series.
  • Merrie Melodies: Carl Stalling and Cartoon Music: A look at Carl Stalling and how he composed music for the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodie cartoons.
  • Blanc Expressions: A look at voice actor, Jerome Melvin "Mel" Blanc (colloquially known as "The Man of 1000 Voices") and how he voiced the Looney Tunes characters.

Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 2

Cartoons 1-9 are directed by Friz Freleng, 10–14 by Robert McKimson.
#TitleCharactersRelease dateSeries
1 Canary Row Sylvester, Tweety, Granny October 7, 1950MM
2 Bunker Hill Bunny Bugs, Sam September 23, 1950MM
3 Kit for Cat Elmer, Sylvester November 6, 1948LT
4 Putty Tat Trouble Sylvester, Tweety February 24, 1951LT
5 Bugs and Thugs Bugs, Rocky and Mugsy March 13, 1954LT
6 Canned Feud Sylvester February 3, 1951LT
7 Lumber Jerks Goofy Gophers June 25, 1955LT
8 Speedy Gonzales Speedy, Sylvester September 17, 1955MM
9 Tweety's S.O.S. Sylvester, Tweety, Granny September 22, 1951MM
10 The Foghorn Leghorn Foghorn, Henery, Barnyard October 9, 1948MM
11 Daffy Duck Hunt Barnyard, Daffy, Porky March 26, 1949LT
12 Early to Bet May 12, 1951MM
13 A Broken Leghorn Foghorn, Prissy September 26, 1959LT
14 Devil May Hare Bugs, Taz June 19, 1954LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Needy For Speedy: A look at Speedy Gonzales, Robert McKimson's heroic Mexican mouse who tricked gringo pussycats (and later, Daffy Duck) to help get cheese for his starving friends.
  • Putty Problems and Canary Rows: A look at how Sylvester and Tweety were created and how their pairing led to some of the most memorable cartoons in Warner Bros. history.
  • Southern Pride Chicken: A look at Foghorn Leghorn, the loud-mouthed, trickster rooster loosely based on Fred Allen's Senator Claghorn character.

Others

  • Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes (documentary)

Reception

In their review of the set, the Parents' Choice Foundation, at their Parents' Choice Award site, awarded the release the "Classic Award" for its high quality in presenting classic material. While cautioning parents about some of the cartoon violence, the review called the set, "solid gold, not just because of the brilliant animated shorts but because of the plethora of commentaries, historical documentaries on the minds behind the madness," and "a true treasure of imagination worth having in your DVD library." [6]

The DVD site, The Digital Bits claimed that Looney Tunes had been one of the most anticipated releases since the inception of the DVD format, and noted that the wait had been "long, but in the end definitely worthwhile." The site's reviewer wrote that the cartoon shorts on the DVDs looked, "brighter, much more colourful, cleaner, sharper, and generally better-framed than their Laserdisc counterparts," which, until that time, had been the best home-format for viewing the cartoons. The reviewer noted that the "very generous selection of supplements" were "almost uniformly informative and entertaining." [7]

The multimedia news and reviews website, IGN complained about the selection of shorts offered on the first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. First pointing out that it would be impossible not to leave out major cartoons by selecting only 56 out of the 1,100 Looney Tunes, the review criticized the selection for the omission of Knighty Knight Bugs , an Academy Award-winning 1958 Bugs Bunny cartoon. [8] IGN complimented the restoration of the shorts, but noted that dust was visible in some cases. The reviewer noted that there were more extras than cartoons on the set, and singled out the audio commentaries for praise due to their variety. [9]

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References

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  2. ↑ Lambert, David (2004-04-03). "Site News - 3 TV-DVDs win Parents' Choice Awards". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
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  5. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collection-All Stars-Volumes 1 & 2 (2003)". Michaeldvd.com.au. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
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