Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2

DVD-cover
Directed by Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett, Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin and Tex Avery
Produced by Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton
Starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester, Tweety, Mel Blanc (voice)
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Release dates
 November 2, 2004 (United States)
Running time
 432 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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]

Related releases

As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 and 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.
# Title Co-stars Release date Director Series
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 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

(*): The original ending title sequence has been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(**): Public domain cartoon.

Special Features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

Disc #2: Road Runner and Friends

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

(*): The original ending title sequence has been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(**): Public domain cartoon.

Special Features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

Disc #3: Tweety and Sylvester and Friends

# Title Characters Release date Director Series
1 Bad Ol' Putty Tat* Sylvester, Tweety July 23, 1949 Friz Freleng MM
2 All a Bir-r-r-rd* Hector, Sylvester, Tweety June 24, 1950 Friz Freleng LT
3 Room and Bird Granny, Hector, Sylvester, Tweety June 2, 1951 Friz Freleng MM
4 Tweet Tweet Tweety Sylvester, Tweety December 15, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
5 Gift Wrapped Granny, Hector, Sylvester, Tweety February 16, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
6 Ain't She Tweet Granny, Hector, Sylvester, Tweety June 21, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
7 A Bird In A Guilty Cage Sylvester, Tweety August 30, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
8 Snow Business# Granny, Sylvester, Tweety January 17, 1953 Friz Freleng LT
9 Tweetie Pie* Sylvester, Tweety 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

(*): The original ending title sequence has been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(**): The original opening and ending title sequences have been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(***): Original flag cue restored
(#): Original ending title card has been restored, replacing the Merrie Melodies 1959-1960 season ending title card.

Special features

Audio commentaries

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

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

# Title Characters Release date Director Series
1 Back Alley Oproar* Elmer, Sylvester March 27, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
2 Book Revue* Daffy January 5, 1946 Bob Clampett LT
3 Corny Concerto, A# 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 Frank Tashlin MM
8 Hep Cat, The Willoughby, proto-Sylvester 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

(*): The original opening and ending title sequences have been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(**): Footage featuring a caricature of Alexander Woollcott, cut from the Blue Ribbon reissue after Woollcott died, has been restored for this release.
(***): Combines live-action with animation.
(#): Public domain cartoon.

Special features

Audio bonuses

Behind-the-Tunes

From the Vaults

Anomalies

Although all cartoons on The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 are presented uncut, a handful of cartoons in this DVD set feature digital video noise reduction (or DVNR) applied artifacting: the noise reduction process unintentionally erases or blurs some of the scenes in the cartoons. This process has upset consumers and animation collectors; subsequent Looney Tunes DVDs lack such artifacting. Cartoons in the collection that have been afflicted with DVNR are Bob Clampett's The Big Snooze, Frank Tashlin's Have You Got Any Castles?, and Robert McKimson's Gorilla My Dreams.

Also controversial is the inclusion of interlaced copies of a handful of cartoons, most of which are present on the DVD in progressive scan. Many have raised concern over the process and have insisted that Warner Home Video encode the cartoons onto DVD in progressive scan only. The interlaced cartoons on this collection are Bob Clampett's A Corny Concerto and Book Revue, Tex Avery's I Love to Singa and Hollywood Steps Out, and Frank Tashlin's Have You Got Any Castles?. No interlacing is used for the cartoon shorts (but appears in the special features) in the PAL version of the collection. In 2007 Warner Home Video began a replacement disc program whereby consumers could replace their interlaced discs with new progressive scan ones.[7]

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.[8] 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."[9]

The first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series had won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards,[10] 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.[11] 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.[12]

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."[13]

References

  1. ↑ Release and content information: "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes comedy Hour - The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  2. ↑ http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6454
  3. ↑ http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6424
  4. ↑ http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6433
  5. ↑ http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6458
  6. ↑ According to the packaging
  7. ↑ Home Theater Forum "Defective Disc Replacement" 2/1/07
  8. ↑ Lambert, David (2003-08-01). "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - WB Studies 'Golden' Sales to Decide Looney Future". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
  9. ↑ "That's Not All, Folks!; The Looney Toons 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.
  10. ↑ Lambert, David (2004-04-03). "Site News - 3 TV-DVDs win Parents' Choice Awards". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  11. ↑ Lacey, Gord (2005-11-07). "Site News - And the Winners Are...". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.

See also

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