Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1

Name	Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1
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Caption	DVD cover
Director	Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Robert McKimson Bob Clampett Arthur Davis Abe Levitow
Producer	Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton
Starring	voice of Mel Blanc
Music	Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn
Distributor	Warner Home Video
Released	2003-10-28
Runtime	411 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Related releases

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

• Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny
• Disc 2: Best of Daffy and Porky
• 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

Disc 1 - Best of Bugs Bunny

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Music-only audio tracks on Rabbit Seasoning, What's Up Doc?, Rabbit's Kin
• Audio commentaries
• Michael Barrier on Rabbit Seasoning, Long-Haired Hare, Bully for Bugs, Big Top Bunny, Wabbit Twouble
• Greg Ford on High Diving Hare, What's Up Doc?
• Stan Freberg on Rabbit's Kin

From the Vaults

• Bonus cartoon: (Blooper) Bunny (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam; 1997) - with optional commentary by Greg Ford
• Bugs Bunny at the Movies Excerpts: Two Guys From Texas (1948), My Dream Is Yours (1949)
• The Bugs Bunny Show: A Star is Bored bridging sequences; The Astro-Nuts audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc
• Trailer gallery: Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Festival, Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Jamboree
• Stills gallery

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

• A greeting from Chuck Jones
• Camera Three: The Boys From Termite Terrace: Part 1 (1975)

Disc 2 - Best of Daffy & Porky

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Music-only audio tracks on Duck Amuck, Drip-Along Daffy, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Rabbit Fire
• Audio commentaries by Michael Barrier on Duck Amuck, Drip-Along Daffy, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, The Wearing of the Grin, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

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

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Music-only audio tracks on Baton Bunny, Feed the Kitty
• Audio commentaries
• Stan Freberg on Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
• Michael Barrier on Fast and Furry-ous, Haredevil Hare, For Scent-imental Reasons, Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
• Michael Barrier and Greg Ford on Hair-Raising Hare
• Greg Ford on Feed the Kitty

From the Vaults

• ToonHeads episode "The Lost Cartoons" (originally broadcast March 2000)
• Hair-Raising Hare and The Hypo-Chondri-Cat schematics
• Stills gallery

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

Special features

Audio bonuses

• Music-only audio tracks on Putty Tat Trouble, Speedy Gonzales, A Broken Leghorn
• Audio commentaries
• Jerry Beck on Canary Row, Canned Feud, Speedy Gonzales, and Devil May Hare
• Michael Barrier on Tweety's S.O.S. and The Foghorn Leghorn

From the Vaults

• Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)
• Virgil Ross pencil tests
• Stills gallery

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."

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."

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. 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.

References

• The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes comedy Hour - The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, 2009-02-05, TVShowsOnDVD.com, dead, 2009-01-23
• David, Lambert, Site News - 3 TV-DVDs win Parents' Choice Awards, 2009-02-05, TVShowsOnDVD.com, 2004-04-03, dead, 2009-04-15
• Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Bugs Bunny (2003), Michaeldvd.com.au, 2016-09-10
• Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Daffy and Porky (2003), Michaeldvd.com.au, 2016-09-10
• Looney Tunes Collection-All Stars-Volumes 1 & 2 (2003), Michaeldvd.com.au, 2016-09-10
• Parents' Choice Awards : DVDs : The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, 2009-02-06, Parents' Choice Award
• Barrie, Maxwell, The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, The Digital Bits, 2003-10-23, dead, 2008-09-05
• Andy, Patrizio, Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Nice start, but it's almost all Bugs., IGN, News Corporation, New York, 2003-10-30
• Andy, Patrizio, Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Nice start, but it's almost all Bugs., IGN, News Corporation, New York, 2003-10-30

External links

See also

• Looney Tunes Golden Collection
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present)