Looney Tunes Golden Collection 1-6
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Propelled by the creative genius of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Friz Freleng, Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes introduced the world to some of the greatest cartoon characters to ever grace the animated cel: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzalez, Pepe LePew, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Tweety, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Tasmanian Devil, and many more. This release includes the first six volumes in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.
Review
The six volumes of WB cartoons in these set contain a total of 24 discs. After buying each volume, one at a time, I thought that I finally had a comprehensive collection of all the best WB cartoons ever made. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. Sorry to be a "glass half empty" guy, but a large number of memorable Looney Tunes classics were somehow left out!
There is easily enough good material to fill another 4-disc volume! I wish Warner Brothers went up to seven volumes instead of stopping at six. Seven volumes (of about 60 cartoons each) would have been the ideal number in order to include all the best.
The cartoons on this set all have superb picture quality, especially considering how old some of them are. (Compare some of the cartoons in this set with the same WB cartoons in cheap public domain collections and you'll see what I mean!)
In recent years WB cartoons have often been tampered with for TV broadcasts, for both "political correctness" (chopping out gags containing ethnic stereotypes) and "violence" (chopping out slapstick gags that involve explosions, gunshots, etc.) Every single cartoon in this collection is unedited and uncensored!
Also, I'm pleased to report that the cartoons that were originally made in black and white are presented on these discs in black and white; absolutely no colorized versions are included.
With so much going for this collection, I hate to nitpick, but if it were up to me I would have arranged some of these in a different order. There is a series of three closely related Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck cartoons made in the early 1950's generally known as the "hunting trilogy", that involve Bugs and Daffy trying to outwit each other against Elmer Fudd. (These are "Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning" and "Duck Rabbit Duck".) All three are included, but they're scattered across three separate discs. If it were up to me, I would have all three of these cartoons in consecutive order on the same disc, where each installment can flow neatly into the next.
There is easily enough good material to fill another 4-disc volume! I wish Warner Brothers went up to seven volumes instead of stopping at six. Seven volumes (of about 60 cartoons each) would have been the ideal number in order to include all the best.
The cartoons on this set all have superb picture quality, especially considering how old some of them are. (Compare some of the cartoons in this set with the same WB cartoons in cheap public domain collections and you'll see what I mean!)
In recent years WB cartoons have often been tampered with for TV broadcasts, for both "political correctness" (chopping out gags containing ethnic stereotypes) and "violence" (chopping out slapstick gags that involve explosions, gunshots, etc.) Every single cartoon in this collection is unedited and uncensored!
Also, I'm pleased to report that the cartoons that were originally made in black and white are presented on these discs in black and white; absolutely no colorized versions are included.
With so much going for this collection, I hate to nitpick, but if it were up to me I would have arranged some of these in a different order. There is a series of three closely related Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck cartoons made in the early 1950's generally known as the "hunting trilogy", that involve Bugs and Daffy trying to outwit each other against Elmer Fudd. (These are "Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning" and "Duck Rabbit Duck".) All three are included, but they're scattered across three separate discs. If it were up to me, I would have all three of these cartoons in consecutive order on the same disc, where each installment can flow neatly into the next.
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