Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4
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Directed by	Frank Tashlin Friz Freleng Chuck Jones Robert McKimson Hawley Pratt Bob Clampett Arthur Davis
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Starring	the voices of Mel Blanc June Foray Ralph James Stan Freberg Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher Joe Dougherty Kent Rogers Robert C. Bruce Tedd Pierce Bernice Hansen Marian Richman Norman Nesbitt
Music by	Bill Lava Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date	November 14, 2006 (2006-11-14)
Running time	414 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 14, 2006. ^[1]

This is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is dedicated to Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is dedicated to Speedy Gonzales. Disc four features Sylvester, plus lesser known feline characters such as Conrad the Cat and Claude Cat, among others. ^[2] Previous Golden Collections included at least one All-Stars disc with no common theme.

Like Volume 3, Volume 4 contains a warning about the politically incorrect humor and racial stereotypes in some of the cartoons, but unlike Volume 3's warning, which was a filmed introduction done by Whoopi Goldberg, Volume 4 simply presents a title card before the main menu with the following:

The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. ^[3]

The Region 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others.

Related releases

As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Region 2: ^[4]

• Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4
• Disc 2: Best of Porky & Pals, Volume 3
• Disc 3: Best of Speedy Gonzales, Volume 1
• Disc 4: All Stars, Volume 5

In Australia (Region 4), the stand-alone Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4 was released in 2008. It was the only disc to be released in that territory. ^[5]

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

Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Favorites

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.

#	Title	Co-stars	Year	Director	Series
1	Roman Legion-Hare	Sam	1955	Friz Freleng	LT
2	The Grey Hounded Hare		1949	Robert McKimson	LT
3	Rabbit Hood		1949	Chuck Jones	MM
4	Operation: Rabbit	Wile E.	1952	Chuck Jones	LT
5	Knight-mare Hare		1955	Chuck Jones	MM
6	Southern Fried Rabbit [n 1]	Sam	1953	Friz Freleng	LT
7	Mississippi Hare	Colonel Shuffle	1949	Chuck Jones	LT
8	Hurdy-Gurdy Hare		1950	Robert McKimson	MM
9	Forward March Hare		1953	Chuck Jones	LT
10	Sahara Hare	Daffy, Sam	1955	Friz Freleng	LT
11	Barbary Coast Bunny	Nasty Canasta	1956	Chuck Jones	LT
12	To Hare Is Human	Wile E.	1956	Chuck Jones	MM
13	8 Ball Bunny	Playboy	1950	Chuck Jones	LT
14	Knighty Knight Bugs	Sam	1958	Friz Freleng	LT
15	Rabbit Romeo	Elmer	1957	Robert McKimson	MM

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Audio commentaries
  • Eric Goldberg on Rabbit Hood and Mississippi Hare
  • Paul Dini on Operation: Rabbit and Hurdy-Gurdy Hare
  • Jerry Beck on 8 Ball Bunny
  • June Foray and Jerry Beck on Rabbit Romeo
• Music only tracks on Knight-mare Hare , Sahara Hare , Barbary Coast Bunny , To Hare Is Human and Rabbit Romeo
• Music and effects track on Operation: Rabbit and Southern Fried Rabbit

Behind the Tunes

• Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott : A look on Raymond Scott's most famous instrumental piece that was used in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts Powerhouse (instrumental)
• Powerhouse in Pictures

From the Vault

• Bugs Bunny: Superstar , Part 1 (1975):
  • What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
  • The Wild Hare (1940)
  • A Corny Concerto (1943)
  • I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
• Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 ½ Minutes (1989)
• The Bugs Bunny Show
  • Ballpoint Puns Bridging Sequences
  • Foreign Legion Leghorn recording sessions
• Trailer Gallery:
  • Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Carnival
  • Bugs Bunny's All-Star Revue

Disc 2 - A Dash of Tashlin

All cartoons on this disc are directed by Frank Tashlin.

#	Title	Characters	Year	Series
1	The Case of the Stuttering Pig	Porky, Petunia	1937	LT
2	Little Pancho Vanilla		1938	MM
3	Little Beau Porky	Porky	1936	LT
4	Now That Summer Is Gone		1938	MM
5	Porky in the North Woods	Porky	1936	LT
6	You're an Education [n 1]		1938	MM
7	Porky's Railroad	Porky	1937	LT
8	Plane Daffy [n 1]	Daffy	1944	LT
9	Porky the Fireman [n 1]	Porky	1938	LT
10	Cracked Ice		1938	MM
11	Puss n' Booty		1943	LT
12	I Got Plenty of Mutton		1944	LT
13	Booby Hatched		1944	LT
14	Porky's Poultry Plant	Porky	1936	LT
15	The Stupid Cupid [n 1]	Daffy, Elmer	1944	LT

Special features

Audio commentaries

• Mark Kausler on The Case of the Stuttering Pig and Porky in the North Woods
• Michael Barrier with Frank Tashlin on Now That Summer is Gone , Cracked Ice and Porky's Poultry Plant
• Daniel Goldmark on You're an Education
• Greg Ford on Plane Daffy and I Got Plenty of Mutton
• Jerry Beck on Puss n' Booty
• Eddie Fitzgerald on The Stupid Cupid

From the Vault

• Bugs Bunny: Superstar , part 2, which contains the following shorts:
  • Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
  • Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
  • My Favorite Duck (1942)
  • Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
  • The Old Grey Hare (1944)
• Porky and Daffy in The William Tell Overture (1991)
• Frank Tashlin Storybooks
  • Little Chic’s Wonderful Mother
  • Tony and Clarence
• Private Snafu shorts
  • The Goldbrick (1943)
  • The Home Front (1943)
  • Censored (1944) ^{[n 1]}

Disc 3 - Speedy Gonzales in a Flash

All cartoons on this disc star Speedy Gonzales.

#	Title	Co-stars	Year	Director	Series
1	Cat-Tails for Two		1953	Robert McKimson	MM
2	Tabasco Road		1957	Robert McKimson	LT
3	Tortilla Flaps		1958	Robert McKimson	LT
4	Mexicali Shmoes		1959	Friz Freleng	LT
5	Here Today, Gone Tamale [n 1]	Sylvester	1959	Friz Freleng	LT
6	West of the Pesos	Sylvester	1960	Robert McKimson	MM
7	Cannery Woe	Sylvester	1961	Robert McKimson	LT
8	The Pied Piper of Guadalupe	Sylvester	1961	Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt	LT
9	Mexican Boarders	Slowpoke, Sylvester	1962	Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt	LT
10	Chili Weather	Sylvester	1963	Friz Freleng	MM
11	A Message to Gracias	Sylvester	1964	Robert McKimson	LT
12	Nuts and Volts	Sylvester	1964	Friz Freleng	LT
13	Pancho's Hideaway	Pancho Vanilla	1964	Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt	LT
14	The Wild Chase	Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	1965	Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt	MM
15	A-Haunting We Will Go	Daffy, Witch Hazel	1966	Robert McKimson	LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Audio commentaries
  • Stan Freberg and Jerry Beck on Cat-Tails for Two
  • Greg Ford with Friz Freleng on Mexican Boarders
  • Art Leonardi and Jerry Beck on Nuts and Volts
  • Paul Dini on The Wild Chase
• Music only track on Tabasco Road , Mexicali Schmoes, and West of the Pesos
• Music and effects track on Cat-Tails for Two

From the Vault

• 90 Day Wondering (1956 Army reenlistment film by Chuck Jones) ^{[n 1]}
• Drafty, Isn’t It? (1957 Army recruitment film by Chuck Jones)

Others

• Friz on Film (new 1-hour documentary)

Disc 4 - Kitty Korner

#	Title	Characters	Year	Director	Series
1	The Night Watchman		1938	Chuck Jones	MM
2	Conrad the Sailor	Conrad, Daffy	1942	Chuck Jones	MM
3	The Sour Puss [n 1]	Porky	1940	Bob Clampett	LT
4	The Aristo-Cat	Claude, Hubie and Bertie	1943	Chuck Jones	MM
5	Dough Ray Me-ow		1948	Arthur Davis	MM
6	Pizzicato Pussycat		1955	Friz Freleng	MM
7	Kiss Me Cat	Marc and Pussyfoot	1953	Chuck Jones	LT
8	Cat Feud	Marc and Pussyfoot	1958	Chuck Jones	MM
9	The Unexpected Pest	Sylvester	1956	Robert McKimson	MM
10	Go Fly a Kit		1957	Chuck Jones	LT
11	Kiddin' the Kitten	Dodsworth	1952	Robert McKimson	MM
12	A Peck o' Trouble	Dodsworth	1953	Robert McKimson	LT
13	Mouse and Garden	Sylvester	1960	Friz Freleng	LT
14	Porky's Poor Fish	Porky	1940	Bob Clampett	LT
15	Swallow the Leader		1949	Robert McKimson	LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Audio commentaries
  • Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on Conrad the Sailor
  • Eddie Fitzgerald on The Aristo-Cat
  • Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on The Aristo-Cat
  • Jerry Beck on Dough Ray Me-ow
  • Daniel Goldmark on Pizzicato Pussycat
  • June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Unexpected Pest
• Music only tracks on Cat Feud, The Unexpected Pest, and Go Fly a Kit
• Music and effects track on A Peck o' Trouble

Behind the Tunes

• One Hit Wonders
• Sing-a-Song of Looney Tunes
• The Art of the Gag
• Wild Lines: The Art of Voice Acting
• Looney Tunes: A Cast of Thousands

From the Vault

• Porky’s Breakdowns (1939 joke reel with Porky swearing) (unavailable on UK release)
• Sahara Hare Storyboard Reel
• Porky’s Poor Fish Storyboard Reel

See also

• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present)

Notes

1. Not included in the region 2 release.

References

1. Release and content information: Lacey, Gord (2006-11-14). "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
2. "Frank Tashlin Spotlighted in New Golden Looney Tunes DVD Collection". Animation World Network. 2006-08-29. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
3. Carter, R.J. (2006-11-20). "DVD Review: Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Four". the-trades.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10.
4. http://www.dohtem.com/bugs/foreign/denmark/
5. https://www.sanity.com.au/products/2106107/Looney-Tunes-Collection---Best-Of-Bugs-Bunny---Vol-4

External links

• Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour, The - Complete List of Volume 4 Shorts at tvshowsondvd.com
• Hunter, Matthew. "GAC Review: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
• "WHV Releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4". Animation World Network. 2006-11-14. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-05.