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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox film Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. The first release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.[1] The set won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards.[2]

Related releases

In Regions 2 and 4, the discs were packaged as follows:

  • Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny[3]
  • Disc 2: Best of Daffy and Porky[4]
  • Disc 3 (Region 2): All Stars - Volume 1
  • Disc 4 (Region 2): All Stars - Volume 2
  • Discs 3 and 4 (Region 4): All Stars - Volumes 1 and 2[5]

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

Disc 1 - Best of Bugs Bunny

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
# Title Co-stars Release date Director Series
1 Baseball Bugs The Gashouse Gorillas Baseball Team Template:Dts Friz Freleng LT
2 Rabbit Seasoning Daffy, Elmer Template:Dts Chuck Jones MM
3 Long-Haired Hare Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
4 High Diving Hare Sam Template:Dts Friz Freleng LT
5 Bully for Bugs Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
6 What's Up Doc? Elmer Template:Dts Robert McKimson LT
7 Rabbit's Kin Pete Puma Template:Dts Robert McKimson MM
8 Water, Water Every Hare Gossamer Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
9 Big House Bunny Sam Template:Dts Friz Freleng LT
10 Big Top Bunny Template:Dts Robert McKimson MM
11 My Bunny Lies over the Sea Template:Dts Chuck Jones MM
12 Wabbit Twouble Elmer Template:Dts Bob Clampett MM
13 Ballot Box Bunny Sam Template:Dts Friz Freleng MM
14 Rabbit of Seville Elmer Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Bugs: A Rabbit For All Seasonings: A look at Warner Bros. (and Looney Tunes) most popular wascally wabbit, Bugs Bunny.
  • Short-Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam: A look at Yosemite Sam, the fiery redheaded cowboy character that served as one of Bugs' many adversaries.
  • Forever Befuddled: A look at Elmer Fudd, the naive (and often neurotic) everyman and hunter who also was one of Bugs' many adversaries.

Others

Disc 2 - Best of Daffy & Porky

All cartoons on this disc star Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or both.
# Title Daffy,
Porky,
or Both?
Co-stars Release date Director Series
1 Duck Amuck Daffy Bugs Template:Dts Chuck Jones MM
2 Dough for the Do-Do Porky Template:Dts Friz Freleng MM
3 Drip-Along Daffy Both Nasty Canasta Template:Dts Chuck Jones MM
4 Scaredy Cat Porky Sylvester Template:Dts Chuck Jones MM
5 The Ducksters Both Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
6 The Scarlet Pumpernickel Both Elmer, Henery, Sylvester, Mama Bear, Melissa Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
7 Yankee Doodle Daffy Both Template:Dts Friz Freleng LT
8 Porky Chops Porky Template:Dts Arthur Davis LT
9 The Wearing of the Grin Porky Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
10 Deduce, You Say! Both Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
11 Boobs in the Woods Both Template:Dts Robert McKimson LT
12 Golden Yeggs Both Rocky Template:Dts Friz Freleng MM
13 Rabbit Fire Daffy Bugs, Elmer Template:Dts Chuck Jones LT
14 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century Both Marvin Template:Dts Chuck Jones MM

Special features

Audio bonuses

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Hard Luck Duck: A profile on Daffy Duck.
  • Porky Pig Roast: A Tribute to the World's Most Famous Ham: A look on Porky from his early black and white beginnings to the development of Mel Blanc, who brought to the character the famous stutter.
  • Animal Quackers: A look at the teaming of Daffy with his ultimate foil, Porky Pig and the introduction of Marvin The Martian and the Duck Dodgers In The 24½ Century persona.

Others

  • Camera Three: The Boys From Termite Terrace: Part 2 (1975)
  • Stills gallery

Disc 3 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 1

Cartoons 1-12 are directed by Chuck Jones (10 co-directed by Abe Levitow), 13 and 14 by Bob Clampett.
# Title Characters Release date Series
1 Elmer's Candid Camera Elmer, Proto-Bugs Template:Dts MM
2 Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears Bugs, The Three Bears Template:Dts MM
3 Fast and Furry-ous Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner Template:Dts LT
4 Hair-Raising Hare Bugs, Gossamer Template:Dts MM
5 Awful Orphan Charlie, Porky Template:Dts MM
6 Haredevil Hare Bugs, K-9, Marvin Template:Dts LT
7 For Scent-imental Reasons Pepé, Penelope Template:Dts LT
8 Frigid Hare Bugs, Playboy Penguin Template:Dts MM
9 Template:Sort Claude Cat, Hubie and Bertie Template:Dts MM
10 Baton Bunny Bugs Template:Dts LT
11 Feed the Kitty Marc and Pussyfoot Template:Dts MM
12 Don't Give Up the Sheep Ralph and Sam Template:Dts LT
13 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid Bugs, Beaky Template:Dts MM
14 Tortoise Wins by a Hare Bugs, Cecil Template:Dts MM

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Too Fast, Too Furry-ous: A look at the creation of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons, Chuck Jones' famous chase cartoon series.
  • Merrie Melodies: Carl Stalling and Cartoon Music: A look at Carl Stalling and how he composed music for the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodie cartoons.
  • Blanc Expressions: A look at voice actor, Jerome Melvin "Mel" Blanc (colloquially known as "The Man of 1000 Voices") and how he voiced the Looney Tunes characters.

Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 2

Cartoons 1-9 are directed by Friz Freleng, 10–14 by Robert McKimson.
# Title Characters Release date Series
1 Canary Row Sylvester, Tweety, Granny Template:Dts MM
2 Bunker Hill Bunny Bugs, Sam Template:Dts MM
3 Kit for Cat Elmer, Sylvester Template:Dts LT
4 Putty Tat Trouble Sylvester, Tweety Template:Dts LT
5 Bugs and Thugs Bugs, Rocky and Mugsy Template:Dts LT
6 Canned Feud Sylvester Template:Dts LT
7 Lumber Jerks Goofy Gophers Template:Dts LT
8 Speedy Gonzales Speedy, Sylvester Template:Dts MM
9 Tweety's S.O.S. Sylvester, Tweety, Granny Template:Dts MM
10 The Foghorn Leghorn Foghorn, Henery, Barnyard Template:Dts MM
11 Daffy Duck Hunt Barnyard, Daffy, Porky Template:Dts LT
12 Early to Bet Template:Dts MM
13 A Broken Leghorn Foghorn, Prissy Template:Dts LT
14 Devil May Hare Bugs, Taz Template:Dts LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Needy For Speedy: A look at Speedy Gonzales, Robert McKimson's heroic Mexican mouse who tricked gringo pussycats (and later, Daffy Duck) to help get cheese for his starving friends.
  • Putty Problems and Canary Rows: A look at how Sylvester and Tweety were created and how their pairing led to some of the most memorable cartoons in Warner Bros. history.
  • Southern Pride Chicken: A look at Foghorn Leghorn, the loud-mouthed, trickster rooster loosely based on Fred Allen's Senator Claghorn character.

Others

  • Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes (documentary)

Reception

In their review of the set, the Parents' Choice Foundation, at their Parents' Choice Award site, awarded the release the "Classic Award" for its high quality in presenting classic material. While cautioning parents about some of the cartoon violence, the review called the set, "solid gold, not just because of the brilliant animated shorts but because of the plethora of commentaries, historical documentaries on the minds behind the madness," and "a true treasure of imagination worth having in your DVD library."[6]

The DVD site, The Digital Bits claimed that Looney Tunes had been one of the most anticipated releases since the inception of the DVD format, and noted that the wait had been "long, but in the end definitely worthwhile." The site's reviewer wrote that the cartoon shorts on the DVDs looked, "brighter, much more colourful, cleaner, sharper, and generally better-framed than their Laserdisc counterparts," which, until that time, had been the best home-format for viewing the cartoons. The reviewer noted that the "very generous selection of supplements" were "almost uniformly informative and entertaining."[7]

The multimedia news and reviews website, IGN complained about the selection of shorts offered on the first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. First pointing out that it would be impossible not to leave out major cartoons by selecting only 56 out of the 1,100 Looney Tunes, the review criticized the selection for the omission of Knighty Knight Bugs, an Academy Award-winning 1958 Bugs Bunny cartoon.[8] IGN complimented the restoration of the shorts, but noted that dust was visible in some cases. The reviewer noted that there were more extras than cartoons on the set, and singled out the audio commentaries for praise due to their variety.[9]

References

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External links

See also

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