Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection
Formats:	Blu-ray DVD
Discs:	2
Running time:	145 minutes (2 hours, 25 minutes)
Shorts:	19
Bonus cartoons:	11
Directed by:	Chuck Jones
Release date:	28 August 2012

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection is a DVD and Blu-ray compilation of nineteen Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons starring Sniffles and the duo Hubie and Bertie. It was originally released 28 August 2012.

The set features nineteen newly restored cartoons, most of which are new to DVD and Blu-ray. The first disc is dedicated to Sniffles, while the second features Hubie and Bertie. Eleven other bonus Looney Tunes cartoons from other directors, all which are centered on the theme of mice, bring the total up to thirty, which are unrestored or dubbed versions.

The DVD counterpart is out of print.

Contents

Disc 1

1.  "Naughty but Mice"
2.  "Little Brother Rat"  (original titles restored)
3.  "Sniffles and the Bookworm" 
4.  "Sniffles Takes a Trip" 
5.  "The Egg Collector" 
6.  "Bedtime for Sniffles" 
7.  "Sniffles Bells the Cat" 
8.  "Toy Trouble" 
9.  "The Brave Little Bat" 
10.  "The Unbearable Bear" 
11.  "Lost and Foundling" 
12.  "Hush My Mouse"  (original titles restored)

Special Feature

• "Naughty but Mice" commentary by Jerry Beck

Disc 2

1.  "The Aristo-cat" 
2.  "Trap Happy Porky"  (original titles restored)
3.  "Roughly Squeaking" 
4.  "House Hunting Mice" 
5.  "Mouse Wreckers"  
6.  "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat"  (original color rings restored)
7.  "Cheese Chasers" 

Bonus cartoons

All of these cartoons, which are also centered on the theme of mice, are unrestored, with the exception of "Mouse Mazurka" on the region 1 pressing. Cartoons 1-5 are in the Associated Artists Productions package and are thus presented as their 1995 dubbed versions. The rest are in the post-1948 package.

1.  "The Country Mouse" 
2.  "The Lyin' Mouse" 
3.  "The Mice Will Play" 
4.  "Little Blabbermouse" 
5.  "Shop Look & Listen"
6.  "Mouse Mazurka" 
7.  "Mouse-Warming"
8.  "Mouse-Taken Identity"
9.  "Mice Follies"
10.  "It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House"
11.  "Merlin the Magic Mouse"

"Mouse Mazurka" is presented as its 1998 dubbed version without dubbed notice, and is always present as an SD print as a result. The Region 2 release presents "Mouse Mazurka" as the unrestored LaserDisc print.

Special Features

• Bonus documentary: "Of Mice & Pen" (narrated by Maurice LaMarche)
• "The Aristo-Cat" commentary by Eddie Fitzgerald
• "The Aristo-Cat" commentary by Greg Ford and Chuck Jones
• "Mouse Wreckers" commentary by Greg Ford
• "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" commentary by Jerry Beck

Gallery

Back cover

Notes

• No disclaimer appears on either of the discs in the collection despite containing the "adult collector" notice.