Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade

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Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade was the third Looney Tunes home video collection from Warner Home Video. The series featured five tapes. Three of these were collections of classic cartoons, the other two, released in the second and final wave in March 1989, were the TV specials Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals and A Connecticut Rabbit In King Arthur's Court.

Each tape's box featured a close-up of the featured character's head on the front and commentary by animation historian Jerry Beck on the back. Each tape except the ones including the TV Specials began with the famous "This Is It" song from The Bugs Bunny Show playing as a parade of clips from the cartoons were featured on a long film strip. The sequence would end with the title of video, complete with the second half of the 1946-1955 Looney Tunes opening theme music playing over it. This would also be used as the beginning to the Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons series of VHS tapes and LaserDiscs.

Time Life Video offered a mail-order set of Looney Tunes tapes during the early 1990s. It was called The Looney Tunes Library, and consisted of the Looney Tunes Video Show, Golden Jubilee and Cartoon Cavalcade tapes. Some of these tapes were packaged with different artwork than the versions offered in stores. Pictures of titles with different covers are available below. Time-Life Video no longer offers these sets.

Cover	Title	Shorts
	Bugs Bunny's Hare-Raising Tales	"A-Lad-In His Lamp" "Knight-Mare Hare" "The Windblown Hare" "Rabbitson Crusoe" "Rabbit Hood" "A Witch's Tangled Hare"
	Daffy Duck's Madcap Mania	"The Super Snooper" "Daffy Duck Hunt" "You Were Never Duckier" "Golden Yeggs" "Dime to Retire" "A Star Is Bored"
	Porky Pig Tales	"Awful Orphan" "The Pest That Came to Dinner" "Jumpin' Jupiter" "My Little Duckaroo" "Dog Collared" "China Jones"
	Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals	"Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals"
	Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court	"A Connecticut Rabbit In King Arthur's Court"

Notes

• The cartoons featured on the film strips during the opening sequence were originally released on the Golden Jubilee tapes, and therefore use the exact same transfers as those aforementioned tapes. These are the following:
  • "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight"
  • "Speedy Gonzales"
  • "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!'
  • "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"
  • "Fast and Furry-ous"
  • "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"
  • "Tweet and Lovely"
  • "High Diving Hare"
  • "Boobs in the Woods"
  • "For Scent-imental Reasons"
  • "Bedevilled Rabbit"
  • "Rabbit Seasoning"
  • "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat"
  • "Ali Baba Bunny"
  • "Show Biz Bugs"
  • "Drip-Along Daffy"
  • "What's Opera, Doc?"
  • "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe"
  • "Birds Anonymous"
  • "Canned Feud"
  • "Greedy for Tweety"

New transfers

• After having several separate remasters in early-to-mid-1980s, this collection marked the debut of new video transfers for the post-1948 shorts mastered in 1988 which looked far, far, far superior to the earlier unrestored prints. These prints are notable to have black borders in the opening titles (and usually having no borders in the closing titles, though some prints do have black borders even in the ending titles), though some of these prints do not have borders at all, and having a cleaner, sharper picture quality than previous remasters in the 1980s. Some of these late-1980s prints do have vibrant, saturated levels of color despite still unrestored, such as the cases with "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", "Fast and Furry-ous", amongst others.
  • Though most but not all post-1948 shorts have been mastered the same way at the time, including the B&W Looney Tunes shorts from the Sunset Productions package and a small selection of the lesser-known DFE Films-era cartoons of 1964-1967, such as "Road to Andalay" and "The Wild Chase", not all of these prints have been released on home video; only a selection of them turned up on VHS and/or laserdisc in the 1990s; the rest of them appeared on TV airings, where most of them debuted as part of either syndication/FOX's Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends, Nickelodeon's Looney Tunes On Nickelodeon or ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show as of 1990.
  • These late-1980s remasters of the B&W Looney Tunes shorts were then used as the basis for the computer-colorized versions in 1990, 1992 and 1995.
  • In addition to this collection, these late-1980s prints also appeared on other VHS collections by Warner Home Video before the Turner-Time Warner merger such as the Authentic and Original Warner Bros. Looney Tunes Cartoons, Modern Looney Tunes Series and Stars of Space Jam collections, and even the mid-to-late-1990s Japanese Looney Tunes LaserDiscs.
  • A handful of post-1948 shorts which have been selected to be restored and remastered in 1997 and 1998 for VHS releases have these late-1980s transfers replaced by the 1997/1998 Warner Bros. Dubbed Versions (AKA: 1997/1998 THIS VERSION's) in both the Looney Tunes Presents and Looney Tunes The Collector's Edition VHS collections, as well as then-current TV airings.
  • Most of these late-1980s prints turned up on Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Tooncast airings since 1999-2008, although some EU networks may use the 1997/1998 dubbed versions while networks in the Americas usually use these prints.
  • Most of these cartoons from this collection (along with cartoons coming from the Looney Tunes Video Show and Golden Jubilee tapes) are time-compressed to PAL speed when shown on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in USA and on Tooncast in Latin America (despite being in NTSC countries). This may have been for time, although the airings of pre-1948 cartoons air at NTSC speed despite pre-1948 cartoons generally running longer than post-1948 cartoons.

Image Gallery

An example of black borders seen in the opening titles in these late-1980s prints. Taken from "A Witch's Tangled Hare" (1959) from the Bugs Bunny tape in this collection from an airing on Italia 1.

Some of these late-1980s don't have borders in the opening titles, but it's easy to tell by the better color correction. Taken from "Pop 'Im Pop!" (1950) from an airing on Boomerang UK.

The late-1980s prints have the ending titles exist in either no borders around it (top) e.g. "You Were Never Duckier" (1948) from the Daffy Duck tape in this collection from an airing on Boomerang UK, or with black borders around it (bottom) e.g. "China Jones" (1959) from the Porky Pig tape in this collection from an airing on Boing Spain.

Yes, even the black-and-white shorts from the Sunset Productions package were remastered at the same time with black borders. These prints were later used for the 1990s computer colorized versions. Taken from "Porky's Badtime Story" (1937) from an airing on Boomerang UK.

A handful of the less well-received DFE Films-era cartoons of the mid-1960s also receive the "black-bordered" remastering treatment of the 1980s, though none of these prints were released on VHS or LaserDisc, evident by the use of black borders in the opening titles. Taken from "Road to Andalay" (1964) from an airing on Boomerang UK.

Some of these late-1980s prints do look really colorful with saturated levels of color despite still unrestored, with "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" (1953) being a good example of this from an airing on 2x2 Russia.