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Looney Tunes: Golden
Collections Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Chuck Close: Three
Cartoons (1953-1957)
" A film director, like an orchestra conductor, is the lord of his
domain, and no director has more power than a director of animated
films. He is set free from the rules of the physical universe and the
limitations of human actors, and can tell any story his mind can conceive.
That's no doubt why Chuck Jones, after creating the characters of the
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, immediately wrote down the rules of
what could and could not happen in their universe. If anything could
happen (and it could), the comedy would be lost in anarchy."
"Jones and other masters of the cartoon short subject created a world
apart from the real world and also apart from feature-length animation,
which tended to be more story-driven. In their films, which were usually
about 7 minutes long, comic scenarios were driven by eternal conflicts
between a character and his desires..."
"... To choose one director or a few titles
from the cartoon universe is daunting, but I'll choose Chuck Jones,
because I knew him and because three of his cartoons have been included
in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress: 'Duck
Amuck' (1953), 'One Froggy Evening' (1955)
and 'What's
Opera, Doc?' (1957)."
"With commentary tracks, interviews and documentaries, the Warner
Bros 'Looney
Tunes Golden Collections' on DVD surround the films with the
legend and lore of Termite Terrace, where the animators and their writers
and assistants labored in the 1930s and 1940s under the unloved producer
Leon Schlesinger. He was an independent contractor supplying cartoons
to Warners, and he required every animator (including Jones, Tex Avery,
Friz Freleng and Bob Clampett ) to produce 10 cartoons a year, one
every five weeks, with two weeks for vacation."
"There are two ways to regard them [cartoons]: As silly little entertainments,
or as an art form that in its own small way, its limitations permitting
an infinity of imagination, approaches perfection." - Roger Ebert
Roger's three cartoon selections were selected for the Library
of Congress National Film Registry of American Film and are
contained within the following two DVD collections.
DVD - Golden Collection Vol. 1 -( 4 Disc Set)
- Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French
(Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- 56 classic animated shorts restored and re-mastered to its original
form (contains all the shorts from The Premiere Collection)
- 4 documentaries
- 12 behind the scene featurettes
- 26 commentary tracks by animators, historians & directors
- Music-only tracks, bridging sequences, and audio sessions rareties
- 1 (Bugs Bunny) - Baseball Bugs, Rabbit Seasoning, Long-Haired Hare,
High Diving Hare, Bully for Bugs, What's Up Doc?, Rabbit's Kin, Water,
Water Every Hare, Big House Bunny, Big Top Bunny, My Bunny Lies over
the sea, Wabbit Twouble, Ballot Box Bunny, Rabbit of Seville
- 2 (Daffy/Porky) - Duck Amuck, Dough for the Do-Do, Drip-Along Daffy,
Scaredy Cat, The Ducksters, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Yankee Doodle
Daffy, Porky Chops, Wearing of the Grin, Deduce, You Say, Boobs in
the Woods, Golden Yeggs, Rabbit Fire, Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2
Century
- 3 (Looney Tunes All Stars) - Elmer's Candid Camera, Bugs Bunny
and The 3 Bears, Fast and Furry-ous, Hair-Raising Hare, The Awful
Orphan, Haredevil Hare, For Scent-imental Reasons, Frigid Hare, The
Hypo-Chondri-Cat , Baton Bunny, Feed the Kitty, Don't Give Up The
Sheep, Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, Tortoise Wins By A Hare
- 4 (Looney Tunes All Stars) - Canary Row, Bunker Hill Bunny, Kit
for Cat, Putty Tat Trouble, Bugs and Thugs, Canned Feud, Lumber Jerks,
Speedy Gonzales, Tweety's S.O.S., Foghorn Leghorn, The, Daffy Duck
Hunt, Early to Bet, Broken Leghorn, Devil May Hare
- Excerpts from The Bugs Bunny Show: "My Dream is Yours," "Two
Guys From Texas."
- Vault Rarities: "A Star is Bored." Bridging sequences: "The
Astro Nuts Audio Recording Sessions with Mel Blanc.", "Hair-Raising
Hare Schematics," "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat Schematics.", "Bosko
the Talk-Ink Kid," "Virgil Ross Pencil Tests."
DVD - Golden Collection Vol. 2 -( 4 Disc Set)
- Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French
(Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- 60 classic cartoons restored, remastered, and uncut
- 30 commentary tracks by animators, historians & directors
- 2 documentaries
- 9 behind the scene featurettes
- Music-only tracks, bridging sequences, and audio sessions rareties
- 1 (Bugs Bunny) - The Big Snooze; Broomstick Bunny; Bugs Bunny Rides
Again; Bunny Hugged; French Rabbit; Gorilla My Dreams; The Hare-Brained
Hypnotist; Hare Conditioned; The Heckling Hare; Little Red Riding
Rabbit; Tortoise Beats Hare; Rabbit Transit; Slick Hare; Baby Buggy
Bunny; Hyde and Hare
- 2 (Road Runner/Tweety) - Beep Beep; Going Going Gosh; Zipping Along
Stop Look and Hasten; Ready Set Zoom; Guided Muscle; Gee Whiz-z-z-z;
There They Go-Go-Go; Scarambled Aches; Zoom and Bored; Whoa Be Gone;
Cheese Chasers; The Dover Boys; Mouse Wreckers; Bear for Punishment
- 3 (Road Runner/Tweety) - Bad Ol' Putty Tat; All Abir-r-r-d; Room
and Bird; Tweet Tweet Tweety; Gift Wrapped; Ain't She Tweet; A Bird
in a Guilty Cage; Snow Business; Tweety Pie; Kitty Kornered; Baby
Bottleneck; Old Glory; The Great Piggy Bank Robbery; Duck Soup to
Nuts; Porky in Wackyland (B/W)
- 4 (All-Star Cavalcade of Hollywood Parodies) - Back Alley Oproar;
Book Revue; Corny Concerto; Have You Got Any Castles; Hollywood Steps
Out; I Love to Singa; Katnip Kollege; The Hep Cat; Three Little Bops;
One Froggy Evening;
Rhapsody Rabbit; Show Biz Bugs; Stage Door Cartoon; What's
Opera, Doc?; You Ought
To Be in Pictures
- TV Specials: "Bugs Bunny's Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Part 2," "The Adventures of the Road Runner" (pilot)
- Opening sequences on four of the shows
- A new 2004 cartoon, "Daffy Duck for President"
- Vault Rareties: "Orange Blossoms for Violet," "Sinkin'
in the Bathtub," "Do or Diet," "So Much for So
Little" (Oscar winner)
Curator's Comments:
Read
Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.
Director: Chuck Jones
Color/Black & White
Golden Collection Vol. 1 - 411 minutes and Golden Collection Vol. 2
- 432 minutes
Released: 1953-57
Rated: G
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
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