Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2

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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2
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Directed by Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Arthur Davis, Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton
Produced by Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton, Fred Quimby (Disc 3 only)
Starringvoice of Mel Blanc
Music by
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Release date
  • October 16, 2012 (2012-10-16)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 is a Blu-ray and DVD box set by Warner Home Video released on October 16, 2012. It contains 50 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. [1] Disc 3 is exclusive to the Blu-ray version of the set. Unlike Volume 1, which was released in a digibook, Volume 2 was released in a standard 1 movie case. This release was followed by Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 .

Contents

All but ten cartoons — What Makes Daffy Duck , Birdy and the Beast , Home, Tweet Home , The High and the Flighty , Porky's Hare Hunt , Hare-um Scare-um , Prest-O Change-O , The Lion's Busy , Strife with Father , and A Horse Fly Fleas — had previously been restored as part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection , the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection , or as part of a Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD.

Disc 1

#TitleCharactersYearDirectorSeries
1 A Wild Hare Bugs, Elmer 1940 Tex Avery MM
2 Buckaroo Bugs Bugs1944 Bob Clampett LT
3 Long-Haired Hare Bugs1949 Chuck Jones LT
4 Ali Baba Bunny Bugs, Daffy 1957 Chuck Jones MM
5 Show Biz Bugs Bugs, Daffy1957 Friz Freleng LT
6 The Wise Quacking Duck Daffy1943 Bob Clampett LT
7 What Makes Daffy Duck [n 1] Daffy, Elmer1948 Arthur Davis LT
8 Book Revue Daffy1946 Bob Clampett LT
9 Deduce, You Say! Daffy, Porky 1956 Chuck Jones LT
10 Porky in Wackyland Porky1938 Bob Clampett LT
11 You Ought to Be in Pictures Daffy, Porky1940 Friz Freleng LT
12 Porky in Egypt Porky1938 Bob Clampett LT
13 Back Alley Oproar Elmer, Sylvester 1948 Friz Freleng MM
14 Little Red Rodent Hood Sylvester1952 Friz Freleng MM
15 Canned Feud Sylvester1951 Friz Freleng LT
16 Gift Wrapped Sylvester, Tweety, Granny 1952 Friz Freleng LT
17 Birdy and the Beast [n 1] Tweety1944 Bob Clampett MM
18 Home, Tweet Home [n 1] Sylvester, Tweety1950 Friz Freleng MM
19 Going! Going! Gosh! Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner 1952 Chuck Jones MM
20 Zipping Along Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1953 Chuck Jones MM
21 Scent-imental Romeo Penelope, Pepé 1951 Chuck Jones MM
22 The Foghorn Leghorn Foghorn, Henery, Barnyard 1948 Robert McKimson MM
23 The High and the Flighty [n 1] Foghorn, Daffy, Barnyard1956 Robert McKimson MM
24 Tabasco Road Speedy 1957 Robert McKimson LT
25 Mexicali Shmoes Speedy1959 Friz Freleng LT

(*): Original opening bullet titles restored

Special features

Behind the Tunes

  • Man from Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett
  • Bosko, Buddy, and the Best of Black and White
  • Leon Schlesinger: The Merrie Cartoon Mogul (provided in HD) [2]

Alternate audio tracks

Disc 2

#TitleCharactersYearDirectorSeries
1 Wabbit Twouble Bugs, Elmer1941 Bob Clampett MM
2 Rabbit Fire Bugs, Daffy, Elmer1951 Chuck Jones LT
3 Rabbit Seasoning Bugs, Daffy, Elmer1952 Chuck Jones MM
4 Duck! Rabbit, Duck! Bugs, Daffy, Elmer1953 Chuck Jones MM
5 Drip-Along Daffy Daffy, Porky, Nasty Canasta 1951 Chuck Jones MM
6 My Little Duckaroo Daffy, Porky, Nasty Canasta1954 Chuck Jones MM
7 Barbary Coast Bunny Bugs, Nasty Canasta1956 Chuck Jones LT
8 Tortoise Beats Hare Bugs, Cecil 1941 Tex Avery MM
9 Tortoise Wins by a Hare Bugs, Cecil1943 Bob Clampett MM
10 Rabbit Transit Bugs, Cecil1947 Friz Freleng LT
11 Porky's Hare Hunt [n 1] Porky, Proto-Bugs 1938 Ben Hardaway LT
12 Hare-um Scare-um [n 1] Proto-Bugs1939 Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton MM
13 Prest-O Change-O [n 1] Two Curious Puppies, Proto-Bugs1939 Chuck Jones MM
14 Elmer's Candid Camera Elmer, Proto-Bugs1940 Chuck Jones MM
15 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid Bugs, Beaky 1942 Bob Clampett MM
16 The Bashful Buzzard Beaky1945 Bob Clampett LT
17 The Lion's Busy [n 1] Beaky1950 Friz Freleng LT
18 Strife with Father [n 1] Beaky1950 Robert McKimson MM
19 An Itch in Time A. Flea, Elmer1943 Bob Clampett MM
20 A Horse Fly Fleas [n 1] A. Flea1947 Robert McKimson LT
21 Hollywood Steps Out 1941 Tex Avery MM
22 Page Miss Glory 1936 Tex Avery MM
23 Rocket-bye Baby 1956 Chuck Jones MM
24 Russian Rhapsody 1944 Bob Clampett MM
25Dough Ray Me-ow1948 Arthur Davis MM

Special features

Behind the Tunes

  • Forever Befuddled
  • A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy
  • Looney Tunes Go Hollywood
  • A Conversation with Tex Avery
  • Looney Tunes Go to War!

Alternate audio tracks

Disc 3: Bonus Materials

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 New to Blu-ray and DVD.

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