| Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 | |
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin Friz Freleng Chuck Jones Robert McKimson Hawley Pratt Bob Clampett Arthur Davis |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
| Starring | the voices of Mel Blanc June Foray Ralph James Stan Freberg Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher Joe Dougherty Kent Rogers Robert C. Bruce Tedd Pierce Bernice Hansen Marian Richman Norman Nesbitt |
| Music by | Bill Lava Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 414 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a DVD box set that was released byWarner Home Video on November 14, 2006.[1] The fourth release of theLooney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 60Looney Tunes andMerrie Melodies theatricalshort subject cartoons, eight documentaries, 20 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 18 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 14 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.
This is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is dedicated toBugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed byFrank Tashlin. Disc three is dedicated toSpeedy Gonzales. Disc four featuresSylvester, plus lesser known feline characters such asConrad the Cat andClaude Cat, among others.[2] Previous Golden Collections included at least one All-Stars disc with no common theme.
LikeVolume 3, Volume 4 contains a warning about thepolitically incorrect humor and racial stereotypes in some of the cartoons, but unlike Volume 3's warning, which was a filmed introduction done byWhoopi 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 would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.[3]
TheRegion 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others.
As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Region 2:[4]
In Australia (Region 4), the stand-aloneBest of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4 was released in 2008. It was the only disc to be released in that territory.[5]
In Region 1, discs 1 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendlyLooney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4.
| # | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[n 1] | 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 |
| # | Title | Characters | Year | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Case of the Stuttering Pig | Porky,Petunia | 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[n 1] | 1938 | MM | |
| 7 | Porky's Railroad | Porky | 1937 | LT |
| 8 | Plane Daffy[n 1] | Daffy | 1944 | LT |
| 9 | Porky the Fireman[n 1] | 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[n 1] | Daffy,Elmer | 1944 | LT |
| # | 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[n 1] | Porky | 1940 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 4 | The Aristo-Cat | Claude,Hubie and Bertie | 1943 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 5 | Dough Ray Me-ow | 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 | 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 | 1960 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 14 | Porky's Poor Fish | Porky | 1940 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 15 | Swallow the Leader | 1949 | Robert McKimson | LT |