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Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection was the second Looney Tunes VHS and Betamax home video collection from Warner Home Video. Originally released on nine videos in 1985, three additional tapes were released in October 1986. This is the first collection to include black-and-white cartoons from the Sunset Productions catalog, with the Daffy Duck volume featuring "Porky's Duck Hunt" and "The Daffy Doc" and the Porky Pig volume featuring "You Ought to Be in Pictures".

Each tape began with a newly animated sequence in which the police are chasing the Tasmanian Devil (who ironically did not have a spotlight video in this collection, though only one of his cartoons ("Bedevilled Rabbit") appears on only one of the VHS tapes in this collection (A Salute to Mel Blanc) on a motorcycle. Taz drives his bike through a theater in which Bugs, Daffy and Porky are on stage with many characters marching across the stage behind them, akin to the beginning of The Bugs Bunny Show (complete with a few instrumental bars of "This Is It" accompanying the scene). The animated sequence ends with a red-and-white WB shield as seen in the classic shorts emerging as Taz drives through the scene.

Some prints of the cartoons in these videos are time-compressed (sped-up from their original speed). These titles include "Porky's Duck Hunt", "You Ought to Be in Pictures", "The Wearing of the Grin", and "Dough for the Do-Do" on the Daffy Duck and Porky Pig tapes. The reason behind the time compression for these four cartoons are due to space restrictions in the VHS tapes at the time, especially due to the longer running time for "Porky's Duck Hunt" (8 minutes, 50 seconds) and "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (9 minutes, 45 seconds). In addition, most of the character-focused tapes feature one cartoon instead starring a secondary character.

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.

Releases[]

Wave 1[]

Cover Title Shorts
24Karat-MelBlanc
A Salute to Mel Blanc
24Karat-FrizFreleng
A Salute to Friz Freleng
24Karat-ChuckJones
A Salute to Chuck Jones
Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection Bugs
Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures
24Karat-Daffy
Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues...
24Karat-Porky
Porky Pig's Screwball Comedies
24Karat-RoadRunnerAndCoyote
Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase
24Karat-SylvesterAndTweety
Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers
24Karat-Speedy
Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies

Wave 2[]

Cover Title Shorts
Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection Elmer
Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers
Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection Foghorn
Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies
24Karat-Pepe
Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales

Notes[]

  • The Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote, and Speedy Gonzales tapes received the RIAA Certified Gold Video Award and consistently performed well on Billboard's Top Videocassettes and Top Kid Video sales charts.[1][2][3]
  • Some of the cartoons in the video collections have colored borders, or black ones, around their opening titles (although the end titles have no borders at all). These colored borders are not seen on later home video releases since the late-1980s (even if the cartoons have borders around the opening titles the colors are limited to black only). Some of these video prints from this collection even turned up on television airings, although these have been phased out in favor of restored prints in recent days.
  • The videos opened with the 1981 \\' Warner Home Video logo.
  • Most of these cartoons from this collection (along with cartoons coming from the Looney Tunes Video Show and Cartoon Cavalcade 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.
  • To tie in with these releases, the following events took place:
    • Museum of Modern Art put together an exhibit called "That’s Not All Folks! Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee".
    • Bugs Bunny received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    • Six Flags introduced Looney Tunes characters to their chain of theme parks.
    • Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video produced a TV special titled The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary.
  • The transfer of "Tweet and Lovely" from the Sylvester and Tweety tape was later reused for the Looney Tunes Presents: Tweety: Tweet & Lovely VHS release in 1999.

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Home Media Releases
VHS/LaserDisc
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection A Salute to Mel Blanc A Salute to Friz Freleng A Salute to Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues... Porky Pig's Screwball Comedies Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Collections The Looney Tunes Video Show Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals Cartoon Moviestars Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons Modern Looney Tunes Series Stars of Space Jam Looney Tunes Presents
DVD/Blu-ray
I Love Tweety Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Movie Collection (Volume 3) Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4
Other Releases 4 Classic Cartoons The Best of Looney Tunes (KFC) Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection The Essential Bugs Bunny The Essential Daffy Duck Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection Looney Tunes The Best of Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes: Unleashed Looney Tunes Big Faces Box Set Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume 1 Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 1 Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 2 Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes Porky Pig 101 Stars of Space Jam Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Marvin the Martian Space Tunes Double Feature Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1 Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 2 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
As Extras A Night at the Movies Warner Archive Collection
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