Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1
Formats:	DVD
Discs:	4
Running time:	411 minutes (6 hours, 51 minutes)
Shorts:	56
Bonus cartoons:	2
Directed by:	Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Robert McKimson Bob Clampett Arthur Davis Abe Levitow
Release date:	28 October 2003

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a four-disc DVD box set that was released 28 October 2003 by Warner Home Video as part of the Golden Collection series. It contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. A handful of the post-1948 cartoons were derived from their 1998 Warner Bros. dubbed prints which fully restored and remastered the cartoons in standard definition, albeit without the dubbed notice at the end for each cartoon included on this DVD set; a total of 21 cartoons on the set are dubbed versions.

Contents

Disc 1 - The Bugs Bunny Collection / Best of Bugs Bunny

All the cartoons in this disc star Bugs Bunny.

In the Japanese Looney Tunes Collection release, "Long-Haired Hare" was removed.

1.  "Baseball Bugs"
2.  "Rabbit Seasoning" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
3.  "Long-Haired Hare"
4.  "High Diving Hare"  (DVNR, low audio pitch)
5.  "Bully for Bugs" (DVNR, low audio pitch)
6.  "What's Up Doc?" (DVNR)
7.  "Rabbit's Kin" (DVNR)
8.  "Water, Water Every Hare" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
9.  "Big House Bunny" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
10.  "Big Top Bunny"  (DVNR)
11.  "My Bunny Lies over the Sea"  (DVNR)
12.  "Wabbit Twouble"
13.  "Ballot Box Bunny"  (DVNR)
14.  "Rabbit of Seville" 

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-only audio tracks on "Rabbit Seasoning", "What's Up Doc?" and "Rabbit's Kin"
• Audio commentaries
  • Michael Barrier on "Rabbit Seasoning", "Long-Haired Hare", "Bully for Bugs", "Big Top Bunny" and "Wabbit Twouble"
  • Greg Ford on "High Diving Hare" and "What's Up Doc?"
  • Stan Freberg on "Rabbit's Kin"
• From the Vaults
  •  "(Blooper) Bunny" (unrestored; with optional commentary by Greg Ford)
  • Bugs Bunny at the Movies Excerpts: My Dream Is Yours, Two Guys from Texas
  • 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 (not included in Looney Tunes Collection releases)
  • 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 (not included in Looney Tunes Collection releases)

Disc 2 - The Daffy and Porky Collection / Best of Daffy and Porky

All the cartoons in this disc star either Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or both.

In the Japanese Looney Tunes Collection release, "Yankee Doodle Daffy", "Porky Chops" and "Boobs in the Woods" were removed.

1.  "Duck Amuck"
2.  "Dough for the Do-Do"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
3.  "Drip-Along Daffy" 
4.  "Scaredy Cat"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
5.  "The Ducksters"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
6.  "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" 
7.  "Yankee Doodle Daffy" 
8.  "Porky Chops"
9.  "The Wearing of the Grin"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
10.  "Deduce, You Say" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
11.  "Boobs in the Woods"  (DVNR)
12.  "Golden Yeggs"  (DVNR, low audio pitch)
13.  "Rabbit Fire"  (low audio pitch)
14.  "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" (DVNR)

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-only audio tracks on "Duck Amuck", "Drip-Along Daffy", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" and "Rabbit Fire"
  • Audio commentaries by Michael Barrier on "Duck Amuck", "Drip-Along Daffy", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", "The Wearing of the Grin" and "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 (not included in Looney Tunes Collection releases)
  • Stills gallery

Disc 3 - The All-Stars Collection (1) / Looney Tunes All Stars Volume 1

All the cartoons in this disc were directed by Chuck Jones save for the last two, which were directed by Bob Clampett.

1.  "Elmer's Candid Camera" (DVNR)
2.  "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears" (DVNR)
3.  "Fast and Furry-ous" 
4.  "Hair-Raising Hare" (DVNR)
5.  "Awful Orphan"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice, low audio pitch)
6.  "Haredevil Hare"
7.  "For Scent-imental Reasons"  
8.  "Frigid Hare" (DVNR)
9.  "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
10.  "Baton Bunny"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
11.  "Feed the Kitty"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
12.  "Don't Give Up the Sheep"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
13.  "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid"
14.  "Tortoise Wins by a Hare"

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-only audio tracks on "Baton Bunny" and "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" and "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid"
  • Michael Barrier and Greg Ford on "Hair-Raising Hare"
  • Greg Ford on "Feed the Kitty"
• From the Vaults
  • ToonHeads "The Lost Cartoons": a special, hour-long episode of the Cartoon Network anthology show ToonHeads centered on lost, rare, and obscure Warner Bros. animation and short, live-action pieces, such as "Crying for the Carolines" and the behind-the-scenes gag reels highlighting a "typical" work day at Leon Schlesinger Studios
  • "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 - The All-Stars Collection (2) / Looney Tunes All Stars Volume 2

The first nine cartoons in this disc were directed by Friz Freleng, while the last five were directed by Robert McKimson.

In the Japanese Looney Tunes Collection release, this disc is rebranded as Volume 1 with Disc 3 completely skipped, and "Daffy Duck Hunt" is removed.

1.  "Canary Row"   (DVNR)
2.  "Bunker Hill Bunny" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
3.  "Kit for Cat"  (DVNR, original opening and credits restored, but has the Blue Ribbon ending; low audio pitch)
4.  "Putty Tat Trouble"  (DVNR)
5.  "Bugs and Thugs" (DVNR)
6.  "Canned Feud"  (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
7.  "Lumber Jerks" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
8.  "Speedy Gonzales" 
9.  "Tweety's S.O.S."  (DVNR)
10.  "The Foghorn Leghorn"  (original titles restored; 1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
11.  "Daffy Duck Hunt"  (DVNR)
12.  "Early to Bet"  (DVNR) (low audio pitch)
13.  "A Broken Leghorn" (1998 dubbed print, without dubbed notice)
14.  "Devil May Hare"

Special Features

• Audio tracks
  • Music-only audio tracks on "Putty Tat Trouble", "Speedy Gonzales" and "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"  (unrestored)
  • Virgil Ross pencil test reel for "Hare Trimmed", "A Hare Grows in Manhattan", "Mississippi Hare", and "A Mouse Divided"
  • 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 Claghorne character.
• Other
  • Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes (documentary)

Menus

Overall Design

The DVD menus feature a simple art-style and are done in 2D animation. Each option is represented in an orange font resembling a thin cartoony Times New Roman that glows white and turns yellow when highlighted. Each menu has differently-colored backgrounds depending on the disc: baby blue on Disc 1, magenta on Disc 2, orange on Disc 3, and lime green on Disc 4. Each page has the available selections near the center of semi-transparent Color Rings, which start from either the left, right, or occasionally middle of the page. Directly underneath the selections is a button to take the viewer back to a previous menu in the form of an certain object: a carrot on Disc 1, an American football on Disc 2, and wooden mallets on Discs 3 & 4 (which additionally "slam" when an option is selected). Usually beside it are extra buttons as white text that navigate between the pages. A sign (the same kind as on the main menu of Discs 3 & 4) has the name of the current menu.

Near the selections is 90's stock artwork of the featured characters on Discs 1 & 2 and an assortment of them on Discs 3 & 4, often looking at, pointing, or motioning to the selections. Rarely in Disc 1 but more common in Discs 3 & 4 however, a character that does not appear in any of the included shorts is in one of the menus:

• Disc 1 has Tweety on The Bugs Bunny Show features menu, and Henery Hawk on the languages menu.
• Disc 3 has Daffy Duck on the main, Behind the Tunes, and as an outline on From the Vaults menus, Sylvester on the main, commentaries on the first page, as an outline on From the Vaults, and on the languages menu, both Foghorn Leghorn and Tweety on the main and music-only soundtracks menus, and Henery Hawk just on the main menu.
• Disc 4 has Marvin the Martian on the main, features, and as an outline on From the Vaults menus, Road Runner on the main and language menus, Wile E. Coyote just on the main menu, and Pussyfoot just on the music-only soundtracks menu.

In place of the characters on the shorts menus, a pair of screenshots of the currently highlighted short are displayed on two frames of a filmstrip column. Highlighting a different option like the menu button will instead display stock artwork inside the frames of the featured characters or, in the case of Discs 3 & 4, the relevant characters of the shorts available on the page. Each short name may also have extra selections beside it that are explained on the first page of every shorts menu: a microphone for commentary on the short, a music-note for the music-only soundtrack of the short, or a miniature Looney Tunes logo for a Behind-the-Tunes featurette related to the short.

On the Bugs Bunny at the Movies menu on Disc 1, the options (save for the back button) appear in black on a projector screen with a black clapperboard icon beside them that turns red when they're highlighted. Bugs Bunny sits on a black director's chair while waving at the viewer.

When viewing the stills galleries, the menu is completely blank save for the current still crookedly hanged on the center of the screen.

If "Continue" is selected at the end of the Languages menu, an extra screen pops up with URLs for the then-current Looney Tunes and Warner Home Video websites, and copyright for the Looney Tunes franchise.

Main Menu Intro

Upon bypassing the Warner Home Video logo, the screen turns into the color of the Color Rings for the DVD. Then, the Color Rings themselves appear one by one from the center while the featured characters are drawn in by a pencil, painted by a brush, and occasionally erased slightly with the eraser of the same pencil. When the characters are almost fully-formed, the 1941 closing version of "Merrily We Roll Along" (with the "twang" from the 1941 opening version of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down") plays as the Color Rings start to pulse in the background. The Looney Tunes logo bounces in from the top as "The" and "Golden Collection [Disc Number]" fade above and below it respectively. Finally, part of the bottom half is wiped off to make way for a black line with the options "Play All", "Shorts", "Features" and "Languages".

On the Looney Tunes Collection versions, "The" and "Golden Collection [Disc Number]" are replaced with simply "The" and "Collection".

Possibly due to a manufacturing defect, all known copies of Golden Collection Volume 1 have the same main menu audio as Disc 1, resulting in misplaced sounds. This also applies to reissues of these discs such as Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 2, but not reissues of the Looney Tunes Collection versions of the same discs.

• On Disc 1, Bugs Bunny in his hole with his hand up is drawn. The pencil mistakenly draws Daffy's beak in place of his mouth, so after being colored in the beak is erased and his proper muzzle is drawn in. A carrot then flies in and lands on Bugs hand before the name of the disc's title pops up on it, then Bugs winks at the viewer.
• On Disc 2, Daffy Duck is drawn with Porky Pig behind him with their pupils looking around before settling in place. The pencil mistakenly draws Bugs's ears on top of Daffy, so after being colored in the ears are erased. An American football spins in from the left and lands next to Porky before the name of the disc's title pops up on it.
• On Disc 3, the following characters are drawn in different spots in order: Daffy Duck (hand behind his back and looking upward, same pose on Disc 2's menu), Porky Pig (running to the left), Bugs Bunny (laying on his back while smiling at the viewer), Sylvester (arms on hips with suspecting look to the right), Wile E. Coyote (kneeling up excitedly at the viewer with right hand pointing up- based on a pose he makes in "Beep, Beep"), Foghorn Leghorn with Henery Hawk (the latter on the former's right hand as if he's speaking to him), and Tweety (sitting and winking at the viewer). The brush paints them from left to right, and a sign with the disc's title fades in the center wobbling like a spring.
• On Disc 4, the following characters are drawn from left to right in order: Bugs Bunny (looking as if he's whispering at the viewer- same pose he makes in the Additional Features menu on Disc 1), Marvin the Martian (arms open happily as he looks at the right), Road Runner (looking to the right while sticking his tongue), Wile E. Coyote (kneeling at the viewer grumpily- also based on a pose he makes in "Beep, Beep"), Tasmanian Devil (hands on knees smiling wide open), Elmer Fudd (hands on hips calmly smiling at the viewer), Granny (dancing happily with her eyes closed and left hand pointing up), Speedy Gonzales (striking a pose while smiling at the viewer), and Tweety (flying upwards while smiling). The brush paints them from left to right, and a sign with the disc's title fades in the center wobbling like a spring.

Main Menu Idle Loop

After the menu intro, the 1941 version of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" plays as the Color Rings continue to pulsate in the background either inward, outward, or in different patterns before they all pulse at once on the final note. During this, the Looney Tunes logo above animates every few seconds with different wobbly sound effects- and in Discs 1 & 2, the featured characters change poses as well.

Below are the list of animations and poses for each disc, which the menu cycles through in order.

Disc 1

• No animation, Bugs smiles at the viewer. Once the song ends, he winks.
• Logo bounces forward and backward, Bugs tilts his head and grins smugly at the viewer.
• Logo wobbles like a bowtie, Bugs stares at the carrot puzzled.
• No animation, Bugs looks upward at the logo with a neutral expression.
• Logo bounces forward and backward, Bugs leans his head back and grins smugly at the viewer.
• Logo wobbles like a bowtie and bounces forward and backward at the same time, Bugs looks neutrally at the viewer.

Disc 2

• No animation, Daffy looks up at the logo while Porky smiles at the viewer with his head slightly titled.
• Logo bounces forward and backward, Daffy tilts his head up and looks at the viewer while Porky faces directly at the viewer and continues smiling.
• Logo wobbles like a bowtie, Daffy stands to the right sheepishly pointing at Porky while he stands on the left, annoyed.
• Logo bounces forward and backward, Daffy and Porky go back into their standard positions. Daffy smiles the viewer while Porky looks to the right with body facing left.
• Logo wobbles like a bowtie and bounces forward and backward at the same time, Daffy stands to the right pointing at Porky accusatorially while he stands on the left, surprised with his back facing him.

Discs 3 & 4

• Logo bounces forward and backward.
• Logo stretches forward and backward with a fish-eye lens effect before bouncing back to normal.
• Logo wobbles like a bowtie.
• The name of the DVD on the sign bounces forward and backward.
• Logo bounces forward and backward.
• Logo spins clockwise rapidly, becoming a blur and zooming closer to the viewer while it does.
• Logo wobbles like a bowtie and bounces forward and backward at the same time.

Gallery

Interior back cover, featuring various character quotes.

Disc 1 cover

Disc 2 cover

Disc 3 cover

Disc 4 cover

Looney Tunes Collection Covers

In international countries, each one disc was separately released, under the Looney Tunes Collection label. Certain European territorie

s released their own four-disc DVD sets under this label.

Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny

Argentina

Australia

Brazil

Bulgaria

Greece (VHS)

Turkey (VCD)

Disc 2: Best of Daffy and Porky

Argentina

Australia

Brazil

Bulgaria

Chile (VHS)

Greece (VHS)

Turkey (VCD)

Disc 3: Looney Tunes All-Stars Volume 1

Argentina (DVD)

Argentina (VHS)

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Chile (VHS)

Czech Republic (DVD)

Czech Republic (VHS)

Denmark

France

France (Prototype cover)

Greece (DVD, English cover)

Greece (VHS)

Germany

Hungary

Ireland (DVD)

Ireland (VHS)

Italy (DVD)

Italy (VHS)

Korea

Lithuania (VHS)

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal (DVD)

Portugal (VHS)

Serbia (VHS)

South Africa

United Kingdom (DVD)

United Kingdom (VHS)

Disc 4: Looney Tunes All-Stars Volume 2

Argentina (DVD)

Argentina (VHS)

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Chile (VHS)

Czech Republic (VHS)

Greece (VHS)

Italy (VHS)

Lithuania (VHS)

Poland (VHS)

Romania (VHS)

Serbia (VHS)

United Kingdom (DVD)

United Kingdom (VHS)

Box sets

Belgium

Brazil

Germany

Disc 1

Menus:

Main menu

Main menu (Looney Tunes Collection)

Shorts Menu (Page 1)

Shorts Menu (Page 2)

Shorts Menu (Page 3)

Features

Features (Looney Tunes Collection)

Additional Features

Additional Features (Looney Tunes Collection)

Bugs Bunny at the Movies

Languages

Languages (Looney Tunes Collection, Page 1)

Languages (Looney Tunes Collection, Page 2)

Website and Copyright

Stills Gallery

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Disc 2

Best of Daffy and Porky

Disc 3

All Stars Volume 1

Disc 4

All Stars Volume 2

Notes

• Golden Collection: Volume 1 is the only entry in the series to:
  • Include classic cartoons with the Tasmanian Devil and Marvin the Martian ("Devil May Hare" for the former, "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" and "Haredevil Hare" for the latter).
  • Only include 14 cartoons per disc, as opposed to the usual 15 of later volumes (discounting "(Blooper) Bunny" and other bonus cartoons).
  • Not include any B&W cartoons as the main feature.
  • Have every cartoon in the collection with their opening title card music.
  • Include more than one Academy Award-winning cartoon ("For Scent-imental Reasons" on Disc 3, "Speedy Gonzales" on Disc 4).
• Some cartoons on Golden Collection: Volume 1 that use 1998 Dub Prints have some sort of DVNR.
• On international release of Golden Collection: Volume 1, some special features, as well the main menu animations, were removed to make space for other audio language tracks.
• The trailer for Golden Collection: Volume 1 erroneously features restored clips from "Rabbit Rampage" and "Hare Trimmed", despite both cartoons not being featured in the collection.
  • "Rabbit Rampage" would later be included as a bonus feature on Volume 6.
  • "Hare Trimmed" would not be included on any Golden Collection release; instead it would appear seven years later on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire DVD.
  • The trailer also erroneously mentions "Games" as bonus features, even though none exist on any Golden Collection release, whether as DVD games or DVD-ROM games accessible on PCs. On the contrary, Disc 2 of Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 1 includes DVD-ROM content from the Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD.
    • Similarly, when the trailer was modified and reused for the international Looney Tunes Collection series, "Games" was changed to "Challenges" when still no such feature exists.