Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2
| 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 |
| Starring | voice of Mel Blanc |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
Release date |
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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
[edit]As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
- Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 2[2]
- Disc 2: Best of Road Runner[3]
- Disc 3: Best of Tweety and Sylvester[4]
- Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 3[5]
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
[edit]- All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
| # | Title | Co-stars | Year | 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 | 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
[edit]Audio bonuses
[edit]- Music-only audio tracks on Hyde and Hare
- Music-and-effects-only audio track on Broom-Stick Bunny, Bunny Hugged, Baby Buggy Bunny
- Audio commentaries
From the Vaults
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- All cartoons on this disc are directed by Chuck Jones.
Special features
[edit]Audio bonuses
[edit]- Music-only audio tracks on Guided Muscle, Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z, There They Go-Go-Go!, Scrambled Aches, Zoom and Bored
- Music-and-effects-only audio track on A Bear for Punishment
- Audio commentaries
- Michael Barrier on Beep, Beep, The Dover Boys at Pimento University or 'The Rivals of Roquefort Hall', A Bear for Punishment
- Greg Ford on Stop! Look! And Hasten!, Whoa, Be-Gone!, Mouse Wreckers
From the Vaults
[edit]- Adventures of the Road-Runner 1962 television pilot
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show 1968 opening title sequence
Behind-the-Tunes
[edit]- 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
[edit]Special features
[edit]Audio Track
[edit]Music-and-Effects Only Audio Tracks for Tweet Tweet Tweety and A Bird in a Guilty Cage
Audio commentaries
[edit]- Greg Ford on Ain't She Tweet, Tweetie Pie
- Michael Barrier on Kitty Kornered, Baby Bottleneck, Porky in Wackyland
- Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on Old Glory
- John Kricfalusi on The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
From the Vaults
[edit]- 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
[edit]- The Man From Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett
Disc 4: Looney Tunes All-Stars: On Stage and Screen
[edit]| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]Audio bonuses
[edit]- Music-only audio tracks on Three Little Bops, One Froggy Evening, and What's Opera, Doc?
- Vocals-only audio tracks on Three Little Bops and What's Opera, Doc?
- Audio commentaries
- Greg Ford on Back Alley Oproar, Hollywood Steps Out, and Show Biz Bugs
- Michael Barrier on Book Revue, A Corny Concerto, and One Froggy Evening
- Jerry Beck and Stan Freberg on Three Little Bops
- Daniel Goldmark on Rhapsody Rabbit and What's Opera, Doc?
- Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, and Maurice Noble on What's Opera, Doc?
- Jerry Beck on You Ought to Be in Pictures
Behind-the-Tunes
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952) - short live action movie with dubbed-animals only.
- Academy Award-winning So Much for So Little (1949).
Release and reception
[edit]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]
See also
[edit]- 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 and miscellaneous)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Bugs Bunny-Volume 2".
- ^ "Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Road Runner-Volume 1".
- ^ "Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Tweety and Sylvester-Volume 1".
- ^ "Looney Tunes Collection-All Stars-Volume 3".
- ^ According to the packaging
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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.