Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2

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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2
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DVD-cover
Directed by Friz Freleng
Chuck Jones
Bob Clampett
Tex Avery
Robert McKimson
Cal Dalton
Cal Howard
Frank Tashlin
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Eddie Selzer
John W. Burton
Starringvoice of Mel Blanc
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Release date
  • November 2, 2004 (2004-11-02)
Running time
432 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 2, 2004. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. [1]

Contents

As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:

In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2.

Disc 1: Bugs Bunny Masterpieces

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
#TitleCo-starsYearDirectorSeries
1 The Big Snooze Elmer October 5, 1946 Bob Clampett LT
2 Broom-Stick Bunny Witch Hazel February 25, 1956 Chuck Jones LT
3 Bugs Bunny Rides Again Yosemite Sam June 12, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
4 Bunny Hugged The Crusher March 10, 1951 Chuck Jones MM
5 French Rarebit June 30, 1951 Robert McKimson MM
6 Gorilla My Dreams Gruesome Gorilla January 3, 1948 Robert McKimson LT
7 The Hare-Brained Hypnotist Elmer October 31, 1942 Friz Freleng MM
8 Hare Conditioned August 11, 1945 Chuck Jones LT
9 The Heckling Hare Willoughby July 5, 1941 Tex Avery MM
10 Little Red Riding Rabbit January 4, 1944 Friz Freleng MM
11 Tortoise Beats Hare Cecil March 15, 1941 Tex Avery MM
12 Rabbit Transit Cecil May 10, 1947 Friz Freleng LT
13 Slick Hare Elmer November 1, 1947 Friz Freleng MM
14 Baby Buggy Bunny December 18, 1954 Chuck Jones MM
15 Hyde and Hare August 27, 1955 Friz Freleng LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

  • Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary Special: Part 1 (1986)
  • The Bugs Bunny Show:Do or Diet bridging sequences; No Business Like Slow Business audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc

Behind-the-Tunes

  • A Conversation With Tex Avery: A look on Avery explaining his various tricks of his particular brand of cartoon trade, from where the “What’s Up Doc?” expression came from, to his days at MGM.

Disc 2: Road Runner and Friends

All cartoons on this disc are directed by Chuck Jones .
#TitleCharactersYearSeries
1 Beep, Beep Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner May 24, 1952MM
2 Going! Going! Gosh! Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner August 23, 1952MM
3 Zipping Along Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner September 19, 1953MM
4 Stop! Look! And Hasten! Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner August 14, 1954MM
5 Ready, Set, Zoom! Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner April 30, 1955LT
6 Guided Muscle Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner December 10, 1955LT
7 Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner May 5, 1956LT
8 There They Go-Go-Go! Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner November 10, 1956LT
9 Scrambled Aches Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner January 26, 1957LT
10 Zoom and Bored Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner September 14, 1957MM
11 Whoa, Be-Gone! Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner April 12, 1958MM
12 Cheese Chasers Claude Cat, Hubie and Bertie, Marc Antony August 25, 1951MM
13 The Dover Boys September 19, 1942MM
14 Mouse Wreckers Claude Cat, Hubie and Bertie April 23, 1949LT
15 A Bear for Punishment The Three Bears October 20, 1951LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Crash! Bang! Boom!: The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown: A look at Termite Terrace's sound effects man, Treg Brown, and how he created the iconic sound effects heard in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

Disc 3: Tweety and Sylvester and Friends

#TitleCharactersYearDirectorSeries
1 Bad Ol' Putty Tat Tweety, Sylvester July 23, 1949 Friz Freleng MM
2 All a Bir-r-r-d Tweety, Sylvester, Hector June 24, 1950 Friz Freleng LT
3 Room and Bird Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector June 2, 1951 Friz Freleng MM
4 Tweet Tweet Tweety Tweety, Sylvester December 15, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
5 Gift Wrapped Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector February 16, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
6 Ain't She Tweet Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector June 21, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
7 A Bird in a Guilty Cage Tweety, Sylvester August 30, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
8 Snow Business Tweety, Sylvester, Granny January 17, 1953 Friz Freleng LT
9 Tweetie Pie Tweety, Sylvester May 3, 1947 Friz Freleng MM
10 Kitty Kornered Porky, Sylvester June 8, 1946 Bob Clampett LT
11 Baby Bottleneck Daffy, Porky March 16, 1946 Bob Clampett LT
12 Old Glory Porky July 1, 1939 Chuck Jones MM
13 The Great Piggy Bank Robbery Daffy July 20, 1946 Bob Clampett LT
14 Duck Soup to Nuts Daffy, Porky May 27, 1944 Friz Freleng LT
15 Porky in Wackyland Porky September 24, 1938 Bob Clampett LT

Special features

Audio Track

Music-and-Effects Only Audio Tracks for Tweet Tweet Tweety and A Bird in a Guilty Cage

Audio commentaries

From the Vaults

  • Bonus cartoon: Daffy Duck for President (An all-new Daffy Duck cartoon released to tie in with the 2004 Election)
  • The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special: Part 2
  • The Porky Pig Show opening title sequence
  • The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show 1988 and 1992 opening title sequences

Behind-the-Tunes

  • The Man From Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett

Disc 4: Looney Tunes All-Stars: On Stage and Screen

#TitleCharactersYearDirectorSeries
1 Back Alley Oproar Sylvester, Elmer March 27, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
2 Book Revue Daffy January 5, 1946 Bob Clampett LT
3 A Corny Concerto Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky September 18, 1943 Bob Clampett MM
4 Have You Got Any Castles? June 25, 1938 Frank Tashlin MM
5 Hollywood Steps Out May 24, 1941 Tex Avery MM
6 I Love to Singa July 18, 1936 Tex Avery MM
7 Katnip Kollege June 11, 1938 Cal Howard and Cal Dalton MM
8 The Hep Cat October 3, 1942 Bob Clampett LT
9 Three Little Bops January 5, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
10 One Froggy Evening Michigan J. Frog December 31, 1955 Chuck Jones MM
11 Rhapsody Rabbit Bugs November 9, 1946 Friz Freleng MM
12 Show Biz Bugs Bugs, Daffy November 2, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
13 Stage Door Cartoon Bugs, Elmer December 30, 1944 Friz Freleng MM
14 What's Opera, Doc? Bugs, Elmer July 6, 1957 Chuck Jones MM
15 You Ought to Be in Pictures Daffy, Porky May 18, 1940 Friz Freleng LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Looney Tunes Go Hollywood: Termite Terrace unit’s passion for sending up the Hollywood of the time and explains the stories behind many of the toons’ delicious parodies, how they expanded into even the musical scores for those pictures, and the tradition of spoofing celebrities that lives on in the movie references in cartoon shows today.
  • It Hopped One Night: A Look at One Froggy Evening : A look on the in-depth on what went into making the Chuck Jones masterpiece and its influential effect
  • Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of What's Opera, Doc?

From the Vaults

Release and reception

Warner Home Video was not sure that Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 would sell well enough to justify a second release in the series. [7] Prior to the release of the second volume, WHV's Vice President of Non-Theatrical Franchise Marketing announced: "We are extremely pleased with consumer response to last year's Volume One editions and we are delighted to release another installment of our most famous animated classics." [8]

The first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series had won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards, [9] and the second release was also an award-winner. TVShowsOnDVD.com reported that the set won the award for "Best Animated Series" release at the 3rd Annual TV-DVD Conference. [10] In The New York Sun , author and critic Gary Giddins complained that this set, like the first one, was skimpy with the black-and-white shorts, and seemed to avoid the more politically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book, Natural Selection, Giddins noted that Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 made up for the latter shortcoming by including some of the racist caricature in the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg. [11]

In a review reprinted in Syracuse, New York's The Post-Standard , Randy Salas, a critic for the Minneapolis, St. Paul Star Tribune , called the second volume in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series a "glorious release". Salas describes the main content of the set, highlighting contributions from Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng with particular emphasis on Jones' One Froggy Evening (1955). The extras highlighted in the review include commentary from music historian Daniel Goldmark, and interviews with Chuck Jones, who had died in 2002. The review summed up, "This is an essential set for any animation fan, and it might just convert many who are not." The reviewer concluded by pointing out that a 2-disc "Spotlight Collection" with selections from the 4-disc set was also available, but advised, "Skip it and go for the full course." [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Release and content information: "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes comedy Hour - The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  2. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Bugs Bunny-Volume 2".
  3. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Road Runner-Volume 1".
  4. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Tweety and Sylvester-Volume 1".
  5. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collection-All Stars-Volume 3".
  6. ↑ According to the packaging
  7. ↑ Lambert, David (2003-08-01). "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - WB Studies 'Golden' Sales to Decide Looney Future". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
  8. ↑ "That's Not All, Folks!; The Looney Toons[sic] Golden Collection Volume 2 and the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 Available for the First Time on DVD November 2". Warner Home Video. 2004-09-07.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Lacey, Gord (2005-11-07). "Site News - And the Winners Are..." TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  11. ↑ The New York Sun 23 Nov 2004, reprinted in Giddins, Gary (2006). Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books . Oxford University Press. pp.  123–124. ISBN   0-19-517951-X. Looney tunes golden collection.
  12. ↑ Salas, Randy A. (2004-11-08). "Bugs and His Buddies Go Looney Tunes in DVD set". The Post-Standard . Syracuse, New York: Advance Publications. Minneapolis, St. Paul Star Tribune. p. D-4.
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