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 |
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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 Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is dedicated to Speedy Gonzales cartoons. 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.
As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Region 2: [4]
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.
# | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
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1 | Roman Legion-Hare | Sam | November 12, 1955 | Friz Freleng | LT |
2 | The Grey Hounded Hare | August 6, 1949 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
3 | Rabbit Hood | December 24, 1949 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
4 | Operation: Rabbit | Wile E. | January 19, 1952 | Chuck Jones | LT |
5 | Knight-mare Hare | October 1, 1955 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
6 | Southern Fried Rabbit [n 1] | Sam | May 2, 1953 | Friz Freleng | LT |
7 | Mississippi Hare | Colonel Shuffle | February 26, 1949 | Chuck Jones | LT |
8 | Hurdy-Gurdy Hare | January 21, 1950 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
9 | Forward March Hare | February 14, 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT | |
10 | Sahara Hare | Daffy, Sam | March 26, 1955 | Friz Freleng | LT |
11 | Barbary Coast Bunny | Nasty Canasta | July 21, 1956 | Chuck Jones | LT |
12 | To Hare Is Human | Wile E. | December 15, 1956 | Chuck Jones | MM |
13 | 8 Ball Bunny | Playboy | July 8, 1950 | Chuck Jones | LT |
14 | Knighty Knight Bugs | Sam | August 23, 1958 | Friz Freleng | LT |
15 | Rabbit Romeo | Elmer | December 14, 1957 | Robert McKimson | MM |
# | Title | Characters | Year | Series |
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1 | The Case of the Stuttering Pig | Porky | October 30, 1937 | LT |
2 | Little Pancho Vanilla | October 8, 1938 | MM | |
3 | Little Beau Porky | Porky | November 14, 1936 | LT |
4 | Now That Summer is Gone | May 14, 1938 | MM | |
5 | Porky in the North Woods | Porky | December 19, 1936 | LT |
6 | You're an Education [n 1] | November 5, 1938 | MM | |
7 | Porky's Railroad | Porky | August 7, 1937 | LT |
8 | Plane Daffy [n 1] | Daffy | September 16, 1944 | LT |
9 | Porky the Fireman [n 1] | Porky | June 4, 1938 | LT |
10 | Cracked Ice | September 10, 1938 | MM | |
11 | Puss n' Booty | December 18, 1943 | LT | |
12 | I Got Plenty of Mutton | March 11, 1944 | LT | |
13 | Booby Hatched | October 14, 1944 | LT | |
14 | Porky's Poultry Plant | Porky | August 22, 1936 | LT |
15 | The Stupid Cupid [n 1] | Daffy, Elmer | November 25, 1944 | LT |
# | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
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1 | The Night Watchman | November 19, 1938 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
2 | Conrad the Sailor | Conrad, Daffy | February 28, 1942 | Chuck Jones | MM |
3 | The Sour Puss [n 1] | Porky | November 2, 1940 | Bob Clampett | LT |
4 | The Aristo-Cat | Claude, Hubie and Bertie | June 19, 1943 | Chuck Jones | MM |
5 | Dough Ray Me-ow | August 14, 1948 | Arthur Davis | MM | |
6 | Pizzicato Pussycat | January 1, 1955 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
7 | Kiss Me Cat | Marc and Pussyfoot | February 21, 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT |
8 | Cat Feud | Marc and Pussyfoot | December 20, 1958 | Chuck Jones | MM |
9 | The Unexpected Pest | Sylvester | June 2, 1956 | Robert McKimson | MM |
10 | Go Fly a Kit | Pussyfoot | February 23, 1957 | Chuck Jones | LT |
11 | Kiddin’ the Kitten | Dodsworth | April 5, 1952 | Robert McKimson | MM |
12 | A Peck o' Trouble | Dodsworth | March 28, 1953 | Robert McKimson | LT |
13 | Mouse and Garden | Sylvester | July 16, 1960 | Friz Freleng | LT |
14 | Porky's Poor Fish | Porky | April 27, 1940 | Bob Clampett | LT |
15 | Swallow the Leader | October 15, 1949 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
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