Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Volumes 1-6) - 24-DVD Box Set

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Volumes 1-6) - 24-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$104.99

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
2500 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1930 - 1960 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Abe Levitow
Arthur Davis

Written By:
Cal Dalton
Cal Howard

Actors:
Mel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan
Stan Freberg
Tex Avery
Julie Bennett
Vincent Price
Billy Bletcher
Jack Benny
Joe Dougherty
Tedd Pierce

Synopsis:

All six volumes of the 'Golden Collection' series of the Warner Brothers' animated cartoon. Each collection raids the archives of the popular and long-running series, Looney Tunes, to bring back the adventures of such iconic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales and Elmer Fudd. The bulk of the cartoons are uncut and have been remastered from the original negatives. As well as classic episodes from all the main characters, the collection features Looney Tunes cartoons dating from the Second World War, including send-ups of Hermann Goering, Hideki Tojo and Joseph Stalin, rare shorts directed by Friz Freleng and a selection of influential director Bob Clampett's standout episodes. Also featured are a number of Looney Tunes' parodies of fairytales, the first ever Looney Tune - 1930's 'Sinkin' in the Bathtub' - and a number of contributions from esteemed director Chuck Jones.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Vol. 1)
A collection of classic Looney Tunes cartoons featuring all your favourite characters! Includes: Bugs Bunny Collection / Daffy & Porky Collection / All Stars Collection Volume 1 / All Stars Collection Volume 2 The vaults are open and gold spills out: 56 top Warner Bros. animated shorts are now rounded up on DVD for the first time ever. Barely contained in 4 solidly-packed discs, they've been restored and remastered to their original, anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! It's a one-of-a-kind celebration of the golden age of Warner Bros. animation. One disc focuses on carrot-crunching icon Bugs Bunny, another on the anarchic Daffy Duck and eternal straight man Porky Pig, and the other two showcase the rest of the Looney Tunes gang. Extensively entertaining and encyclopedic extras will make your eyes pop and jaws drop - just like being inside your own Warner Bros. cartoon. What's up doesn't get any better than this, doc!

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Vol. 2)
Brash, fast-paced, and hysterically funny, the Warner Brothers cartoons rank among the undisputed treasures of American animation and American comedy. This second collection, a follow-up to Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, includes such gems as "Porky in Wackyland," "A Bear for Punishment," "Gee Whiz-z-z," The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," and "I Love to Singa." A short documentary about director Bob Clampett features several cartoon historians, animator Eric Goldberg, Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont, and Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi (enthusiastic but over the top). But Warners continues its scattergun approach to selecting films. There are only eight cartoons by Clampett in the set, plus three by Tex Avery and one by Frank Tashlin. "Rabbit Fire" and "Rabbit Seasoning" appear on the first set, but the third cartoon in Jones's trilogy, "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" isn't on either. More than two-thirds of the films are by Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones. That's not necessarily a bad thing. "Show Biz Bugs," "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," and the Oscar-winning "Tweety Pie" showcase Freleng's razor-sharp timing. "What's Opera, Doc," "The Dover Boys," and the justly celebrated "One Froggy Evening" rank among Jones's boldest experiments and most brilliant successes. Volume Two includes some genuine rarities, among them, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" (1930), the first Looney Tune, and the Oscar-winning documentary "So Much for So Little." With 60-plus cartoons, transferred from good prints Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Volume 2 is a collection to treasure.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Vol. 3)
Like the previous entries in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series, volume 3 confirms how brilliant the Warner Bros. artists were and how durable their creations have proven. The set includes classics that every cartoon buff will recognize: "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!," "Robin Hood Daffy," "Birds Anonymous." Other selections are less familiar but significant in the development of the studio: "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," the first Looney Tune; "I Haven't Got a Hat," the earliest Warners cartoon viewers can watch for fun, rather than as an historic curiosity; "Porky's Romance," in which director Frank Tashlin introduced rapid cutting to cartoons. Some of the caricature films have aged less gracefully. Younger audiences will recognize the drawn versions of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Katharine Hepburn, and Charlie Chaplin. But will anyone under the age of 60 remember Edna Mae Oliver, George Arliss, or Ned Sparks? The producers have once again loaded the discs with supplemental material, including "Point Food Rationing," a unseen short explaining wartime ration books; a BBC documentary on Chuck Jones; and interstitial animated sequences for The Bugs Bunny Show. "Philbert" ranks as the oddest of the extras: an unsold (and leaden) pilot from 1963, featuring live actors and an animated title character. Whoopi Goldberg introduces the set, explaining that some of the ethnic gags would no longer be considered appropriate. But she correctly adds that to remove them would falsify both the history of animation and American popular culture. It all adds up to a set every cartoon fan will want.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Vol. 4)
More Looney Tunes. Your wish is our command. Because in this 4-disc setare 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed on rabbits, pigs, mice or cats. Indeed, some have never before been on home video! Disc 1 features the tall, gray and haresome one. Disc 2 is all pig. Disc 3 is all about Speedy. And Disc 4 is the cats meow. One thing: to watch these, you must be as tall as this sign. Wrong disclaimer. Read the one in the box below. Got the idea? Now have fun.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Vol. 5)
The fifth collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies continues Warner Bros.' scattershot approach, mixing classics and obscurities. Among the best-known and funniest cartoons are "Ali Baba Bunny" (Daffy yelling, "I'm rich! I'm socially secure!"), "Bewitched Bunny" (Witch Hazel galloping off in a cloud of hair pins), and "Buccaneer Bunny" (a sterling example of one of director Friz Freleng's favorite gags: having the characters run up and down stairs and in and out of various doors). "Gold Diggers of '49" and "Little Red Walking Hood" show Tex Avery beginning to explore the self-reflexive gags that would be become one of the hallmarks of his mature style. In "Walking Hood," Grandma stops the action to answer the phone and place her order with the grocer--including a case of gin. "The Daffy Doc" is Bob Clampett at his most surreal, with Daffy and Porky getting sucked into an iron lung, bulging and shrinking like balloon animals. Some of the earliest cartoons predate the adoption of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as the theme song for the Warner Bros. cartoons. Many shorts from the early '30s were built around songs from Warner's musicals: "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" (written for Gold Diggers of 1933) features caricatures of Mae West, George Bernard Shaw, Benito Mussolini, and Bing Crosby frolicking to the title tune. Greta Garbo delivers the closing, "That's All, Folks!" Like the previous four sets, Golden Collection Volume 5 comes loaded with extras that range from three WWII films in which Mr. Hook urges sailors to buy war bonds to "Extremes and In-Betweens: A Life in Animation" (2000), a documentary about Oscar-winning director Chuck Jones. Many of these cartoons will have viewers of all ages in stitches.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection (Vol. 6)
We've saved the best for last... more of your favorite Looney Tunes... your wish is our command. The concluding release from the Golden Collection Series is a 4-disc set with 60 more of the most looneytic Looney Tunes ever unleashed. Plus, 15 bonus shorts to make this the biggest collection of Looney Tunes ever! Indeed, some have never before been on home video! Disc 1 - Looney Tunes All Stars, featuring best loved characters in classic shorts Disc 2 - Patriotic Pals Disc 3 - Bosko, Buddy & Merrie Melodies. Enjoy rare treasures from the original looney toons before they were Looney Tunes! Disc 4 - Most Requested "Assorted Nuts" Favorite shorts that defy classification!

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 February, 2014.