Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Vol. 4

Volume 4 is one of the better Looney Tunes volumes, disc 1 has some choice Bugs Bunny cartoons, then disc 2 has a good mixture of vintage Porky Pig cartoons (mostly from the 30s), there are Speedy Gonzales cartoons on disc 3, with a few of them featuring the mid 60s Looney Tunes openings & the cartoons on disc 4 feature various feline characters, + some marvellous extras.

Brilliant collection of classic Warner bros cartoons. Magnificent! Love it! And the collection comes with fascinating features about the history of the cartoon unit.

My daughter love it this cartoon and this DVD is wonderful!!!!

Classics!

Like the the three earlier of the series, this box contains four DVD's with about four dozens of classical cartoons, from the mid-thirties till ca. 1960,as well as a lot of extra material. It is a veritable gold mine for lovers of the classical cartoon era: I.e. well before the date when excessive political correctness and the art-killing computer animation had managed to stamp their ugly mark on the cartoon genre. The warning texts on early films, stating that they "may not be suitable for young children" and "the values and opinions expressed in this film must be regarded as a time document and the distributors do not share them" today usually serve as a quality seal, so look for these when selecting good cartoons!Technical quality, both picture and sound, is excellent, the age of the originals taken into consideration.The only thing about this box that I can find to complain about is that the opening texts, when setting up each disk, are different from what the labels say: This can be slightly confusing. E.g. the first disk is labelled "Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume four - disk one", while the opening text refers to it as "All Stars Volume 5, Carnival of Cats". The languages and subtitles selection also appears rather odd for a disk sold onm a U.K. site: English, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian, Romanian and Slovenian, but this may be the reason for this edition being sold very cheaply by Amazon, so I don't complain.

As some before me have stated, this collection is somewhat less brilliant as those that have gone before it. That being said, I was still in stitches on several occasions, with one of my personal favourite 'toons, Knighty Knight Bugs providing much delight - seeing the Singing Sword again brought back memories of watching it when only little. Other highlights [which are agreeably somewhat less numerous than before] of this collection include Barbary-Coast Bunny, as the Yosemite Sam - Bugs partnership is one of Looney Tunes best.I believe that, for the price offered here especially, this collection is a steal, and should rightly be considered alongside the previous volumes.

I Bought this after purchasing regoin 2 versions of Looney Tunes Golden Collections 1-3 (all great value). Little did I know that unlike collections 1-3 this one differs in content. For some reason this issue only has 53 cartoons.Here's what is missing:Disc 1: Southern Fried RabbitDisc 2: You're An Education Plane Daffy Porky the Fireman The Stupid CupidDisc 3: Here Today, Gone TamaleDisc 4: The Sour PussAs Far as I can tell all the extras are present.From a collectors point of view this is quite annoying. I appreciate that what is here is good value, but nowhere has it been clearly indicated that this release was different from region one (which I may have got instead had I known).Having said that though, it's a shame volumes 5 and 6 have not yet made it to region 2 (in full please).

i am so disapointed in this, i thought it would have the famous duck season, rabbit season short included (as its refered to on the front cover) and its not! instead its packed with shorts which do not include any of the characters on the cover, boaring just like the third box set.

I love this looney toons dvd a lot of classics like operation hare, recommend a purchase you'll love it.

I dvd erano impacchettati perfettamente, nuovi di zecca, perfetti anche da collezionare.Ricordi da bambino che ritornano, ora che la tv trasmette solo cose di scarsa qualità!

Most of the reviews spotlight the cartoons that are on here but going another direction I'm going to focus on a couple of the extra's.The Golden Collection in my opinion is a fascinating series of DVD's spotlighting the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. I own all of the volumes that were released. One of the things that I liked about the series was the extra's. I think I've played and re-played and re-re-played several of those "Behind The Tunes" segments on all the Volumes. The history that's presented and the comments from those who were there or those who are part of today's cartoon world are captivating (at least I think so).The critically maligned "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" documentary, from 1975, is broken into two parts on Disc 1 and Disc 2. I happen to like the documentary, if for the only reason, is that I love seeing the clips of the directors/animators from a point in time where they hadn't really experienced the fame and glory that was to come as younger people became more and more fascinated with the whole body of Warner Brothers cartoons. Of course, the Warner Brothers cartoons had been airing on TV since the early '60s, but even by 1975 the cartoons had become increasingly pushed as "children's programming" and weren't taken as serious works of art or entertainment and their weren't any lavish praise heaped upon the Warner cartoons and those who worked on them like their is today. Why was this documentary maligned by critics? Well, it has to do with some of the commentary made by a few of the participants who either took credit for things they shouldn't have or omitted credit where credit should've been given.Orson Welles narrates the documentary.Each cartoon director that went through the studio and had any considerable time-span has their 'followers' even today. There's the fans of the wild, zany cartoons epitomized in the works of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Norm McCabe, and Robert McKimson. Frank Tashlin's cartoons have a live-action flavor. I was not familiar with Tashlin's cartoons due to how they rarely, if ever, played on TV and so I learned quite a lot about him in this Volume...he has a disc all to himself. There are a few extra features displaying sketches made by Tashlin for children's books...with animation edited in. June Foray narrates the story of "Little Chic's Wonderful Mother" while Stan Freberg narrates "Tony and Clarence".Later, after I purchased the previous release, Volume 3, I found out even more thanks to the documentary called Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank Tashlin.It should be pointed out that I didn't purchase these Golden Collections in numerical order.Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones are the two directors from the studio that garner the most acclaim and attention. A lot of that has to do with their longevity with the studio but also because their cartoons were often aired on television the most for 3 decades. It should also be noted that Freleng's cartoons won the most Academy Awards for Warner Brothers, a total of 4: Tweetie Pie, Speedy Gonzales, Knighty Knight Bugs, and Birds Anonymous.Friz Freleng gets spotlighted on a documentary called "Friz on Film". It's a wonderfully done salute to arguably the best director from the Golden Age of Warner Brothers Animation in terms of stats, accolades, and total body of work. Freleng directed just about all the Warner cartoon characters at some point or another with a large percentage of his work concerning Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, and Speedy Gonzales.Speedy was created by Robert McKimson (who directed the character's debut and some later cartoons from the studio's final years) but Freleng directed the ones considered by historians to be the most popular. In this documentary, as well as in other extra features that elaborate on Freleng, the creation of Yosemite Sam is almost always discussed. His peers and colleagues routinely state that the character is a complete duplication of the real-life Friz Freleng. His daughter remarks that Friz had red hair in his younger days and that he had a temper and several animators affectionately recall Friz being impatient, fuming, pacing a lot, and anxious during the animation process.Friz himself, in archive footage, laughs about his tyrannical reputation during the production of the cartoons but remarks that he obtained that reputation due to his perfectionism and insisting that the cartoons come across exactly as he envisioned. The character of Sam, by the way, was created as a replacement for Elmer Fudd.Chuck Jones, in addition to his many contributions to Warner Brothers cartoons, did a lot of mostly seasonal animation projects and specials away from Warner Brothers from the early '60s through the early '70s that often play on cable television annually to this day and that's probably a big reason why his name is much more recognizable by those outside the audiences of Warner cartoons. He did critically acclaimed work for MGM. The crowning achievement away from Warner Brothers, in hindsight, would be his adaptation of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas", a story from Dr. Seuss, that plays every year. Jones returned to Warner Brothers in the late '70s and remained a pivotal figure in keeping the public remembering the classic Warner Brothers characters as well as providing newer animation projects utilizing the classic characters.Jones introduced the world to the Duck Season/Rabbit Season routine and changed the personality of Daffy from being a free-for-all, zany, looney character into a gigantic egomaniac forever jealous of the popularity enjoyed by Bugs Bunny. The fans who love this depiction have Chuck Jones to thank.The funny thing is that this characterization of Daffy remained constant...being picked up by the other directors...and today Daffy is known as a greedy, vain, egotistical braggart. In his memorable role as Duck Dodgers, Daffy plays the part of the know-it-all hero scolding and blaming his associates for his own incompetence. This is not the Daffy that intrigued movie audiences of the '30s and '40s...but it's a comical stroke of genius all the same.Jones directed three cartoons that are in the National Film Registry: Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, and What's Opera, Doc?. Ironically, those three cartoons didn't win any awards during their original releases, but decades of showings on television and the viewer response to those three in particular elevated them above the other cartoons. Three of his theatrical cartoons did win Academy Awards: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much For So Little, and The Dot and the Line. Jones won an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for career/lifetime achievement.One of the things about these Golden Collections is that the work of the directors are on full display and you're able to enjoy the various styles and characterizations associated with specific animators and directors. Until these collections started being released it was next to impossible to see cartoons from Frank Tashlin, for example, or see Norm McCabe's earliest work for the studio.The four disc's, like the 4 disc's in the previous collections, all follow a specific theme:1. Bugs Bunny Favorites2. A Dash of Tashlin3. Speedy Gonzales in a Flash4. Kitty KornerThe "Behind the Tunes" segments are exceptional. There are 8 altogether:1. The Art of the Gag2. Looney Tunes: A Cast of Thousands3. One-Hit Wonders4. Sing-a-Song of Looney Tunes5. Wild Lines: The Art of Voice Acting6. Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott7. Powerhouse in Pictures8. Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in Three and a Half Minutes

Love the old cartoons. Great DVD.

Here we go with the fourth installment of Looney Tunes in their GOlden Collection series. In it everyone is there, Bugs, Daffy, Porky and a whole disk full of Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester and the rest of the gang. Wow, this disc continues where the first three left off. Based on the content of the toons they are excellent and have been restored very nicely. They just come alive for children of all ages that understand that the cartoon violence is fake and is not meant to be believed in the real life. If I had to choose only two cartoon series, this one would be one of them. The Looney Tunes and Flintstones Collections would be the sets that I would not part with quickly. They have given me laughs time and time again.