Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a Looney Tunes collection on DVD. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on November 14, 2006.[1]
This Looney Tunes collection is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is all Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is all Speedy Gonzales cartoons. Disc four features feline characters, including the well-known Sylvester plus the lesser-known Conrad the Cat and Claude Cat among others.[2] Previous Golden Collections included at least one All-Stars disc with no common theme.
Like Volume 3, Volume 4 contains a warning about the politically incorrect humor and racial stereotypes in some of the cartoons, but unlike Volume 3's warning, which was a filmed introduction done by Whoopi Goldberg, Volume 4 simply presents a title card before the main menu with the following:
- “The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise is the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.”
- ―Warner Home Video
The Region 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others.
Related releases[]
Akin to Volume 2 and 3, Disc 1 was released separately in Region 4 as Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4, while the other discs were not released in the same format.
In Region 1, discs 1 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4.
Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Favorites[]
# | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
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1 | Roman Legion-Hare | Sam | 1955 | Friz Freleng | LT |
2 | The Grey Hounded Hare | 1949 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
3 | Rabbit Hood | 1949 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
4 | Operation: RABBIT | Wile E. | 1952 | Chuck Jones | LT |
5 | Knight-mare Hare | 1955 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
6 | Southern Fried Rabbit | Sam | 1953 | Friz Freleng | LT |
7 | Mississippi Hare | Colonel Shuffle | 1949 | Chuck Jones | LT |
8 | Hurdy-Gurdy Hare | 1950 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
9 | Forward March Hare | 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT | |
10 | Sahara Hare | Daffy, Sam | 1955 | Friz Freleng | LT |
11 | Barbary Coast Bunny | Nasty Canasta | 1956 | Chuck Jones | LT |
12 | To Hare Is Human | Wile E. | 1956 | Chuck Jones | MM |
13 | 8 Ball Bunny | Playboy | 1950 | Chuck Jones | LT |
14 | Knighty Knight Bugs | Sam | 1958 | Friz Freleng | LT |
15 | Rabbit Romeo | Elmer | 1957 | Robert McKimson | MM |
Special features[]
Audio bonuses[]
- Audio commentaries
- Eric Goldberg on Rabbit Hood and Mississippi Hare
- Paul Dini on Operation: Rabbit and Hurdy-Gurdy Hare
- Jerry Beck on 8 Ball Bunny
- June Foray and Jerry Beck on Rabbit Romeo
- Music only tracks on Knight-mare Hare, Sahara Hare, Barbary Coast Bunny, To Hare is Human and Rabbit Romeo
- Music and effects track on Operation: Rabbit and Southern Fried Rabbit
Behind the Tunes[]
- Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott
- Powerhouse in Pictures
From the Vault[]
- Bugs Bunny: Superstar, part 1 (1975), which contains the following shorts:
- What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
- The Wild Hare (1940)
- A Corny Concerto (1943)
- I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
- Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 ½ Minutes - (1989)
- The Bugs Bunny Show
- Ballpoint Puns Bridging Sequences
- Foreign Legion Leghorn recording sessions
- Trailer Gallery:
- Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Carnival
- Bugs Bunny's All-Star Revue
Disc 2 - A Dash of Tashlin[]
- All cartoons on this disc are directed by Frank Tashlin.
# | Title | Characters | Year | Series |
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1 | The Case of the Stuttering Pig | Porky | 1937 | LT |
2 | Little Pancho Vanilla | 1938 | MM | |
3 | Little Beau Porky | Porky | 1936 | LT |
4 | Now That Summer Is Gone | 1938 | MM | |
5 | Porky in the North Woods | Porky | 1936 | LT |
6 | You're an Education | 1938 | MM | |
7 | Porky's Railroad | Porky | 1937 | LT |
8 | Plane Daffy | Daffy | 1944 | LT |
9 | Porky the Fireman | Porky | 1938 | LT |
10 | Cracked Ice | 1938 | MM | |
11 | Puss n' Booty | 1943 | LT | |
12 | I Got Plenty of Mutton | 1944 | LT | |
13 | Booby Hatched | 1944 | LT | |
14 | Porky's Poultry Plant | Porky | 1936 | LT |
15 | The Stupid Cupid | Daffy, Elmer | 1944 | LT |
Special features[]
Audio commentaries[]
- Mark Kausler on The Case of the Stuttering Pig and Porky in the North Woods
- Michael Barrier with Frank Tashlin on Now That Summer is Gone, Cracked Ice and Porky's Poultry Plant
- Daniel Goldmark on You're an Education
- Greg Ford on Plane Daffy and I Got Plenty of Mutton
- Jerry Beck on Puss n' Booty
- Eddie Fitzgerald on The Stupid Cupid
From the Vault[]
- Bugs Bunny: Superstar, part 2, which contains the following shorts:
- Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
- Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
- My Favorite Duck (1942)
- Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
- The Old Grey Hare (1944)
- Porky and Daffy in "The William Tell Overture"
- Frank Tashlin Storybooks
- Little Chic’s Wonderful Mother
- Tony and Clarence
- Private Snafu shorts
- The Goldbrick (1943)
- The Home Front (1943)
- Censored (1944)[n 1]
Disc 3 - Speedy Gonzales in a Flash[]
- All cartoons on this disc star Speedy Gonzales.
# | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
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1 | Cat-Tails for Two | 1953 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
2 | Tabasco Road | 1957 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
3 | Tortilla Flaps | 1958 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
4 | Mexicali Shmoes | 1959 | Friz Freleng | LT | |
5 | Here Today, Gone Tamale | Sylvester | 1959 | Friz Freleng | LT |
6 | West of the Pesos | Sylvester | 1960 | Robert McKimson | MM |
7 | Cannery Woe | Sylvester | 1961 | Robert McKimson | LT |
8 | The Pied Piper of Guadalupe | Sylvester | 1961 | Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | LT |
9 | Mexican Boarders | Slowpoke, Sylvester | 1962 | Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | LT |
10 | Chili Weather | Sylvester | 1963 | Friz Freleng | MM |
11 | A Message to Gracias | Sylvester | 1964 | Robert McKimson | LT |
12 | Nuts and Volts | Sylvester | 1964 | Friz Freleng | LT |
13 | Pancho's Hideaway | Yosemite Sam | 1964 | Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | LT |
14 | The Wild Chase | Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner | 1965 | Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt (uncredited) | MM |
15 | A-Haunting We Will Go | Daffy, Witch Hazel | 1966 | Robert McKimson | LT |
Special features[]
Audio bonuses[]
- Audio commentaries
- Stan Freberg and Jerry Beck on Cat-Tails for Two
- Greg Ford with Friz Freleng on Mexican Boarders
- Art Leonardi and Jerry Beck on Nuts and Volts
- Paul Dini on The Wild Chase
- Music only track on Tabasco Road, Mexicali Schmoes, and West of the Pesos
- Music and effects track on Cat-Tails for Two
From the Vault[]
- 90 Day Wondering (1956 Army reenlistment film by Chuck Jones)[n 1]
- Drafty, Isn’t It? (1957 Army recruitment film by Chuck Jones)
Others[]
- Friz on Film (new 1-hour documentary)
Disc 4 - Kitty Korner[]
# | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Night Watchman | 1938 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
2 | Conrad the Sailor | Conrad, Daffy | 1942 | Chuck Jones | MM |
3 | The Sour Puss | Porky | 1940 | Bob Clampett | LT |
4 | The Aristo-Cat | Claude, Hubie and Bertie | 1943 | Chuck Jones | MM |
5 | Dough Ray Me-ow | Louie and Heathcliff | 1948 | Arthur Davis | MM |
6 | Pizzicato Pussycat | 1955 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
7 | Kiss Me Cat | Marc and Pussyfoot | 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT |
8 | Cat Feud | Marc and Pussyfoot | 1958 | Chuck Jones | MM |
9 | The Unexpected Pest | Sylvester | 1956 | Robert McKimson | MM |
10 | Go Fly a Kit | Pussyfoot | 1957 | Chuck Jones | LT |
11 | Kiddin’ the Kitten | Dodsworth | 1952 | Robert McKimson | MM |
12 | A Peck o' Trouble | Dodsworth | 1953 | Robert McKimson | LT |
13 | Mouse and Garden | Sylvester and Sam the Cat | 1960 | Friz Freleng | LT |
14 | Porky's Poor Fish | Porky | 1940 | Bob Clampett | LT |
15 | Swallow the Leader | 1949 | Robert McKimson | LT |
Special features[]
Audio bonuses[]
- Audio commentaries
- Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on Conrad the Sailor
- Eddie Fitzgerald on The Aristo-Cat
- Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on The Aristo-Cat
- Jerry Beck on Dough Ray Me-ow
- Daniel Goldmark on Pizzicato Pussycat
- June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Unexpected Pest
- Music only tracks on Cat Feud, The Unexpected Pest, and Go Fly a Kit
- Music and effects track on A Peck o' Trouble
Behind the Tunes[]
- One Hit Wonders
- Sing-a-Song of Looney Tunes
- The Art of the Gag
- Wild Lines: The Art of Voice Acting
- Looney Tunes: A Cast of Thousands
From the Vault[]
- Porky’s Breakdowns (1939 joke reel with Porky swearing) (unavailable on UK release)
- Sahara Hare Storyboard Reel
- Porky’s Poor Fish Storyboard Reel
See also[]
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present and miscellaneous)
- List of Bugs Bunny cartoons
Notes[]
References[]
- ↑ Release and content information: Lacey, Gord (2006-11-14). "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-05.
- ↑ "Frank Tashlin Spotlighted in New Golden Looney Tunes DVD Collection". Animation World Network. 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2009-02-05.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
- ↑ Carter, R.J. (2006-11-20). "DVD Review: Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Four". www.the-trades.com. External link in
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External links[]
- Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour, The - Complete List of Volume 4 Shorts at tvshowsondvd.com
- Hunter, Matthew. "GAC Review: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4". Retrieved 2009-02-06.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
- "WHV Releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4". Animation World Network. 2006-11-14. Retrieved 2009-02-05.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
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