| Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 | |
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| Directed by | Friz Freleng Chuck Jones Bob Clampett Tex Avery Robert McKimson Cal Dalton Cal Howard Frank Tashlin Arthur Davis |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton |
| Starring | voice ofMel Blanc |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 432 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 is aDVD box set that was released byWarner Home Video on November 2, 2004. The second release of theLooney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 60Looney Tunes andMerrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.[1]
As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendlyLooney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2.
| # | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Big Snooze | Elmer | 1946 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 2 | Broom-Stick Bunny | Witch Hazel | 1956 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 3 | Bugs Bunny Rides Again | Yosemite Sam | 1948 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 4 | Bunny Hugged | The Crusher | 1951 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 5 | French Rarebit | 1951 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
| 6 | Gorilla My Dreams | Gruesome Gorilla | 1948 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 7 | The Hare-Brained Hypnotist | Elmer | 1942 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 8 | Hare Conditioned | 1945 | Chuck Jones | LT | |
| 9 | The Heckling Hare | Willoughby | 1941 | Tex Avery | MM |
| 10 | Little Red Riding Rabbit | 1944 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
| 11 | Tortoise Beats Hare | Cecil | 1941 | Tex Avery | MM |
| 12 | Rabbit Transit | Cecil | 1947 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 13 | Slick Hare | Elmer | 1947 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 14 | Baby Buggy Bunny | 1954 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
| 15 | Hyde and Hare | 1955 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad Ol' Putty Tat | Tweety,Sylvester | 1949 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 2 | All a Bir-r-r-d | Tweety,Sylvester,Hector | 1950 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 3 | Room and Bird | Tweety,Sylvester,Granny,Hector | 1951 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 4 | Tweet Tweet Tweety | Tweety,Sylvester | 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 5 | Gift Wrapped | Tweety,Sylvester,Granny,Hector | 1952 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 6 | Ain't She Tweet | Tweety,Sylvester,Granny,Hector | 1952 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 7 | A Bird in a Guilty Cage | Tweety,Sylvester | 1952 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 8 | Snow Business | Tweety,Sylvester,Granny | 1953 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 9 | Tweetie Pie | Tweety,Sylvester | 1947 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 10 | Kitty Kornered | Porky,Sylvester | 1946 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 11 | Baby Bottleneck | Daffy,Porky | 1946 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 12 | Old Glory | Porky | 1939 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 13 | The Great Piggy Bank Robbery | Daffy | 1946 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 14 | Duck Soup to Nuts | Daffy,Porky | 1944 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 15 | Porky in Wackyland | Porky | 1938 | Bob Clampett | LT |
Music-and-Effects Only Audio Tracks forTweet Tweet Tweety andA Bird in a Guilty Cage
| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back Alley Oproar | Sylvester,Elmer | 1948 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 2 | Book Revue | Daffy | 1946 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 3 | A Corny Concerto | Bugs,Daffy,Elmer,Porky | 1943 | Bob Clampett | MM |
| 4 | Have You Got Any Castles | 1938 | Frank Tashlin | MM | |
| 5 | Hollywood Steps Out | 1941 | Tex Avery | MM | |
| 6 | I Love to Singa | 1936 | Tex Avery | MM | |
| 7 | Katnip Kollege | 1938 | Cal Howard andCal Dalton | MM | |
| 8 | The Hep Cat | Willoughby | 1942 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 9 | Three Little Bops | 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT | |
| 10 | One Froggy Evening | Michigan J. Frog | 1955 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 11 | Rhapsody Rabbit | Bugs | 1946 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 12 | Show Biz Bugs | Bugs,Daffy | 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 13 | Stage Door Cartoon | Bugs,Elmer | 1944 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 14 | What's Opera, Doc? | Bugs,Elmer | 1957 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 15 | You Ought to Be in Pictures | Daffy,Porky | 1940 | Friz Freleng | LT |
Warner Home Video was not sure thatLooney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 would sell well enough to justify a second release in the series.[7] Prior to the release of the second volume, WHV's Vice President of Non-Theatrical Franchise Marketing announced: "We are extremely pleased with consumer response to last year's Volume One editions and we are delighted to release another installment of our most famous animated classics."[8]
The first set in theLooney Tunes Golden Collection series had won the Classic Award at theParents' Choice Awards,[9] and the second release was also an award-winner.TVShowsOnDVD.com reported that the set won the award for "Best Animated Series" release at the 3rd Annual TV-DVD Conference.[10] InThe New York Sun, author and criticGary Giddins complained that this set, like the first one, was skimpy with the black-and-white shorts, and seemed to avoid the morepolitically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book,Natural Selection, Giddins noted thatLooney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 made up for the latter shortcoming by including some of the racist caricature in the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction byWhoopi Goldberg.[11]
In a review reprinted inSyracuse, New York'sThe Post-Standard, Randy Salas, a critic for theMinneapolis, St. Paul Star Tribune, called the second volume in theLooney Tunes Golden Collection series a "glorious release". Salas describes the main content of the set, highlighting contributions fromChuck Jones andFriz Freleng with particular emphasis on Jones'One Froggy Evening (1955). The extras highlighted in the review include commentary from music historian Daniel Goldmark, and interviews with Chuck Jones, who had died in 2002. The review summed up, "This is an essential set for any animation fan, and it might just convert many who are not." The reviewer concluded by pointing out that a 2-disc "Spotlight Collection" with selections from the 4-disc set was also available, but advised, "Skip it and go for the full course."[12]
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