| Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 | |
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DVD-cover |
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| Directed by | Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett, Robert McKimson, Cal Howard, Cal Dalton and Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer |
| Starring | Bugs Bunny Elmer Fudd Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester, Tweety, Mel Blanc (voice) |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
| Release date(s) | 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]
Contents |
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.
| # | Title | Co-Stars | Release Date | Director | TV package | Series |
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| 1 | Big Snooze, The | Elmer | 10-05-1946 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | LT |
| 2 | Broom-Stick Bunny | Witch Hazel | 02-25-1956 | Chuck Jones | Post-1948 | LT |
| 3 | Bugs Bunny Rides Again | Sam | 06-12-1948 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 4 | Bunny Hugged | The Crusher | 03-10–1951 | Chuck Jones | Post-1948 | MM |
| 5 | French Rarebit* | 06-30–1951 | Robert McKimson | Post-1948 | MM | |
| 6 | Gorilla My Dreams | Gruesome | 01-03-1948 | Robert McKimson | a.a.p. | LT |
| 7 | Hare-Brained Hypnotist, The | Elmer | 10-31-1942 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 8 | Hare Conditioned | 08-11-1945 | Chuck Jones | a.a.p. | LT | |
| 9 | Heckling Hare, The | Willoughby | 07-05-1941 | Tex Avery | a.a.p. | MM |
| 10 | Little Red Riding Rabbit | 01-04-1944 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM | |
| 11 | Tortoise Beats Hare | Cecil | 03-15-1941 | Tex Avery | a.a.p. | MM |
| 12 | Rabbit Transit | Cecil | 05-10–1947 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | LT |
| 13 | Slick Hare | Elmer | 11-01-1947 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 14 | Baby Buggy Bunny | 12-18-1954 | Chuck Jones | Post-1948 | MM | |
| 15 | Hyde and Hare | 08-27-1955 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
(*): The original ending title sequence has been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
| # | Title | Characters | Release Date | TV package | Series |
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| 1 | Beep, Beep | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 05-24-1952 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 2 | Going! Going! Gosh! | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 08-23-1952 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 3 | Zipping Along | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 09–19–1953 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 4 | Stop! Look! And Hasten! | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 08-14-1954 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 5 | Ready, Set, Zoom! | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 04-30–1955 | Post-1948 | LT |
| 6 | Guided Muscle | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 12-10–1955 | Post-1948 | LT |
| 7 | Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z* | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 05-05-1956 | Post-1948 | LT |
| 8 | There They Go-Go-Go! | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 11-10–1956 | Post-1948 | LT |
| 9 | Scrambled Aches | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 01-26-1957 | Post-1948 | LT |
| 10 | Zoom and Bored | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 09–14-1957 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 11 | Whoa, Be-Gone! | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | 04-12-1958 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 12 | Cheese Chasers | Claude, Hubie and Bertie | 08-28-1951 | Post-1948 | MM |
| 13 | Dover Boys, The | The Dover Boys | 09–10–1942 | a.a.p. | MM |
| 14 | Mouse Wreckers* | Claude, Hubie and Bertie | 04-23-1949 | Post-1948 | LT |
| 15 | A Bear for Punishment* | The Three Bears | 10-20–1951 | Post-1948 | LT |
(*): The original ending title sequence has been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
| # | Title | Characters | Release Date | Director | TV package | Series |
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| 1 | Bad Ol' Putty Tat* | Sylvester, Tweety | 07-23-1949 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | MM |
| 2 | All Abir-r-r-d!* | Sylvester, Tweety | 06-24-1950 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 3 | Room and Bird | Granny, Sylvester, Tweety | 06-02-1951 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | MM |
| 4 | Tweet Tweet Tweety | Sylvester, Tweety | 12-15-1951 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 5 | Gift Wrapped | Granny, Hector, Sylvester, Tweety | 02-16-1952 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 6 | Ain't She Tweet | Granny, Sylvester, Tweety | 06-21-1952 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 7 | A Bird In A Guilty Cage | Sylvester, Tweety | 08-30–1952 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 8 | Snow Business | Granny, Sylvester, Tweety | 01-17-1953 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 9 | Tweetie Pie* | Sylvester, Tweety | 05-03-1947 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 10 | Kitty Kornered | Porky, Sylvester | 06-08-1946 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | LT |
| 11 | Baby Bottleneck** | Daffy, Porky | 03-16-1946 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | LT |
| 12 | Old Glory* | Porky | 07-01-1939 | Chuck Jones | a.a.p. | MM |
| 13 | Great Piggy Bank Robbery, The | Daffy | 07-20–1946 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | LT |
| 14 | Duck Soup to Nuts | Daffy, Porky | 05-27-1944 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | LT |
| 15 | Porky in Wackyland | Porky | 09-24-1938 | Bob Clampett | Sunset | 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.
| # | Title | Characters | Release Date | Director | TV package | Series |
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| 1 | Back Alley Oproar* | Elmer, Sylvester | 03-27-1948 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 2 | Book Revue* | Daffy | 01-05-1946 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | LT |
| 3 | Corny Concerto, A | Bugs, (Daffy), Elmer, Porky | 09–18-1943 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | MM |
| 4 | Have You Got Any Castles?** | 06-25-1938 | Frank Tashlin | a.a.p. | MM | |
| 5 | Hollywood Steps Out | 05-24-1941 | Tex Avery | a.a.p. | MM | |
| 6 | I Love to Singa* | 07-18-1936 | Tex Avery | a.a.p. | MM | |
| 7 | Katnip Kollege | 06-11-1938 | Cal Howard and Cal Dalton | a.a.p. | MM | |
| 8 | Hep Cat, The | Willoughby, proto-Sylvester | 10-03-1942 | Bob Clampett | a.a.p. | LT |
| 9 | Three Little Bops | 01-05-1957 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | MM | |
| 10 | One Froggy Evening | Michigan J. Frog | 12-31-1955 | Chuck Jones | Post-1948 | MM |
| 11 | Rhapsody Rabbit | Bugs | 11-09–1946 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 12 | Show Biz Bugs | Bugs, Daffy | 11-02-1957 | Friz Freleng | Post-1948 | LT |
| 13 | Stage Door Cartoon | Bugs, Elmer | 12-30–1944 | Friz Freleng | a.a.p. | MM |
| 14 | What's Opera, Doc? | Bugs, Elmer | 07-06-1957 | Chuck Jones | Post-1948 | MM |
| 15 | You Ought to Be in Pictures | Daffy, Porky | 05-18-1940 | Friz Freleng | Sunset | 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.
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.[6]
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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