Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection

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Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection
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DVD cover
Directed by Chuck Jones
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Release date
  • August 28, 2012 (2012-08-28)(United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection is a DVD and Blu-ray set featuring cartoons focusing on Hubie and Bertie and Sniffles and featuring various other mouse characters in Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts. It was released on August 28, 2012. [1]

Contents

Disc 1

All cartoons on this disc star Sniffles and are directed by Chuck Jones.
#TitleCo-StarsYear
1 Naughty but Mice 1939
2Little Brother Rat1939
3 Sniffles and the Bookworm Bookworm1939
4 Sniffles Takes a Trip 1940
5 The Egg Collector Bookworm1940
6Bedtime for Sniffles1940
7Sniffles Bells the Cat1941
8Toy TroubleBookworm1941
9The Brave Little Bat1941
10The Unbearable Bear1943
11Lost and Foundling1944
12Hush My Mouse1946

Special feature

Disc 2

All cartoons on this disc star Hubie and Bertie and are directed by Chuck Jones .
#TitleCo-StarsYear
1The Aristo-Cat Claude, Hector 1943
2 Trap Happy Porky Porky, Claude, Hector1945
3Roughly SqueakingClaude, Hector1946
4 House Hunting Mice 1947
5 Mouse Wreckers Claude, Hector1949
6 The Hypo-Chondri-Cat Claude1950
7 Cheese Chasers Claude, Marc Antony1951

Special features

#TitleCharactersDirectorYear
1The Country Mouse Friz Freleng 1935
2 The Lyin' Mouse Friz Freleng 1937
3The Mice Will Play Tex Avery 1938
4Little BlabbermouseLittle Blabbermouse Friz Freleng 1940
5Shop, Look, and ListenLittle Blabbermouse Friz Freleng 1940
6Mouse Mazurka Sylvester Friz Freleng 1949
7 Mouse Warming Claude, Hector Chuck Jones 1952
8Mouse-Taken Identity Hippety Hopper, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr. Robert McKimson 1957
9 Mice Follies The Honey-Mousers Robert McKimson 1960
10 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House Daffy, Granny, Speedy, Sylvester Friz Freleng 1965
11 Merlin the Magic Mouse Merlin, Second Banana, Sam Cat Alex Lovy 1967

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References

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