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The cartoons included on the set are uncut, unedited, and digitally restored and remastered from the original successive Technicolor film negatives (or, in the case of the black and white shorts, the original black and white negatives). However, some of the cartoons in these collections are derived from the "blue ribbon" reissues (altered from their original versions with their revised front-and-end credit sequences), as the original titles for these cartoons are presumably lost. A handful of cartoons in the first two collections have digital video Noise Reduction (or DVNR) artifacting. The noise reduction process sometimes unintentionally erases or blurs some of the picture on certain scenes of the cartoons, which has caused controversy among some Looney Tunes fans. The most recent collections, however, lack such artifacting. Beginning with Volume 3, a warning was printed on the packaging explaining that the collection is intended for adults and the content may not be suitable for children. That presumably goes along with Whoopi Goldberg 's filmed introduction that explains the history of ethnic imagery that frequently appears in cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s. For Volume 4, a singular text card replaced Goldberg's film introduction. The DVDs also feature several special features including interviews/documentaries of the people behind the cartoons such as Chuck Jones , Friz Freleng , Bob Clampett , Tex Avery , Carl Stalling , and Mel Blanc , pencil tests, and audio commentaries by animation historians Jerry Beck , Michael Barrier , Greg Ford . In some regions, such as Region 2 & 4, each disc in each volume is packaged (or re-packaged) separately. {Link without Title}
While each Golden Collection provides a healthy dose of Bugs Bunny cartoons, additional focal points have varied in each year's release. Volume 1 primarily focused on cartoons by directors Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng from the 1950s. Volume 2 paid tribute with Bob Clampett and Tex Avery shorts from the 1940s. Volume 3 paid a small tribute to often-overlooked animation director Frank Tashlin and cartoons featuring Hollywood Caricature s. Volume 4 continues to honor to Frank Tashlin and Friz Freleng and features several Speedy Gonzales cartoons. A ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' will be released once a year into the foreseeable future. Given the Warner cartoon studio output, at the rate of 60 cartoons per set the series could run ten years or more. If the collections continue as is, there could be 17 releases total, at the most. Along with the release of the ''Golden Collections'', WB also released ''Looney Tunes Spotlight Collections'' which packaged only half of the cartoons of the ''Golden Collection'' on two DVDs. The exception to this practice was in 2005, with Warners Home Video instead releasing the somewhat-misnomered ''Looney Tunes Movie Collection'', which featured DVDs containing edited versions of ''''. SEE ALSO |
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