Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $17.58 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Two Thumbs Up Add to Cart
$42.69  & FREE Shipping. Details
Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 1 (2003)

Mel Blanc , Arthur Q. Bryan , Abe Levitow , Arthur Davis  |  NR |  DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (505 customer reviews)

List Price: $64.92
Price: $43.16 & FREE Shipping. Details
You Save: $21.76 (34%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it Tuesday, May 21? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details

Other Formats & Versions

Amazon Price New from Used from
DVD Full Screen Edition $43.16  
This week only, save up to 58% on select seasons of Animaniacs as our Deal of the Week. Offer ends May 18, 2013. Learn more

Special Offers and Product Promotions

  • Amazon Originals Now Playing, For Free: Watch hilarious comedies and lovable children's pilots from top creators, featuring stars you love, only at Amazon Instant Video. See all the shows and let us know what you think.



Frequently Bought Together

Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 1 + Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 2 + Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 3
Price for all three: $113.02

Buy the selected items together


Product Details

  • Actors: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Vincent Price, Stan Freberg, Billy Bletcher
  • Directors: Abe Levitow, Arthur Davis, Chuck Jones, Constantine Nasr, Friz Freleng
  • Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 4
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
  • Run Time: 411 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (505 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AYJXS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,732 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 1" on IMDb

Special Features

  • 56 classic animated shorts restored and re-mastered to its original form (contains all the shorts from The Premiere Collection)
  • Disc 1 - Best of Bugs Bunny
  • 14 Cartoons (8 with commentary, 3 with music-only track): Baseball Bugs, Rabbit Seasoning, Long-Haired Hare, High Diving Hare, Bully for Bugs, What's Up Doc?, Rabbit's Kin, Water, Water Every Hare, Big House Bunny, Big Top Bunny, My Bunny Lies over the sea, Wabbit Twouble, Ballot Box Bunny, Rabbit of Seville
  • Extras: A Greeting from Chuck Jones, Vintage documentary "Camera Three: The Boys Termite Terrace (Part 1)." New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "A Rabbit For All Seasons," "Short-Fuse Shootout," "Forever Befuddled." Bonus Cartoons: "Blooper Bunny," "Bugs Bunny at the Movies (with commentary). Excerpts from The Bugs Bunny Show: "My Dream is Yours," "Two Guys From Texas." Vaults: "A Star is Bored." Bridging sequences: "The Astro Nuts Audio Recording Sessions with Mel Blanc." Trailer and still gallery
  • Disc 2 - Best of Daffy & Porky
  • 14 Cartoons (5 with commentary, 4 with music-only track): Duck Amuck, Dough for the Do-Do, Drip-Along Daffy, Scaredy Cat, The Ducksters, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Yankee Doodle Daffy, Porky Chops, Wearing of the Grin, Deduce, You Say, Boobs in the Woods, Golden Yeggs, Rabbit Fire, Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
  • Extras: Vintage documentary "Camera Three: The Boys Termite Terrace (Part 2)." New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "Hard Luck Duck," "Porky Pig Roast," "Animal Quackers." Stills gallery
  • Disc 3 - Looney Tunes All Stars
  • 14 Cartoons (7 with commentary, 1 with music-only track): Elmer's Candid Camera, Bugs Bunny and The 3 Bears, Fast and Furry-ous, Hair-Raising Hare, The Awful Orphan, Haredevil Hare, For Scent-imental Reasons, Frigid Hare, The Hypo-Chondri-Cat , Baton Bunny, Feed the Kitty, Don't Give Up The Sheep, Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, Tortoise Wins By A Hare
  • Extras: Documentary "Toon Heads: The Lost Cartoons." New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "Too Fast, Too Furry-ous," "Merrie Melodies: Carl Stalling and Cartoon Music," "Blanc Expressions." From the Vaults: "Hair-Raising Hare Schematics," "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat Schematics." Still gallery
  • Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All Stars
  • 14 Cartoons (6 with commentary, 3 with music-only track): Canary Row, Bunker Hill Bunny, Kit for Cat, Putty Tat Trouble, Bugs and Thugs, Canned Feud, Lumber Jerks, Speedy Gonzales, Tweety's S.O.S., Foghorn Leghorn, The, Daffy Duck Hunt, Early to Bet, Broken Leghorn, Devil May Hare
  • Extras: New documentary "Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes." New Behind-the-Tunes Featurettes: "Needy for Speedy," "Putty Problems and Canary Rows," "Southern Pride Chicken." From the Vaults: "Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid," "Virgil Ross Pencil Tests." Stills gallery

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For years, animation buffs have waited impatiently for the Warner Bros. cartoons to appear on DVD. The Warner shorts never commanded the budgets and prestige of the Disney and MGM films, and won fewer Oscars than they deserved. But decades after the best ones were created, they remain the quintessential Hollywood cartoons: brash, fast-paced, aggressively funny and uniquely American. Virtually everyone in the U.S. under the age of 60 grew up on these films, in theaters and on TV. The 56 cartoons in the set (out of a studio output of over 1,000) were transferred from good prints--which means the viewer can see dust, scratches, and occasional mistakes by the cel painters. The films are all presented uncut, in defiance of the killjoys who have insisted on censoring alleged "violence" in the versions shown on television. Warner Bros. is obviously testing consumer response with this set. Although the erratic selection includes many classics, purists will argue (correctly) that it offers neither a fair representation of the directors' oeuvres, nor anything approaching a coherent history of the characters or studio style. (Nearly half the films were directed by Chuck Jones; only three are by Bob Clampett, and there's nothing by Tex Avery or Frank Tashlin.) But it seems petty to carp about omissions and biases when the discs offer excellent, uncensored prints of some of the funniest films ever made in the U.S.--or anywhere else. (Rated G, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

They're the crown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy. They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! And now, 56 of the very best animated shorts starring the very wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Golden Collection! Just barely contained in four special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original, uncut, anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation! Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark animated marvel after another, there's that icon of carrot-crunching aplomb, Bugs Bunny, in a dazzling assortment of his very best classic shorts. Also highlighted in their own delightfully zany series of cartoon gems: the ever-flustered Daffy Duck and eternal straight-man Porky Pig. Plus, all the rest of the beloved Looney Tunes lineup starring in some of the most wildly imaginative cartoon shorts ever created! Including an array of exclusive bonus DVD features from expert commentaries to insights into the evolution of these classic characters, this is the ultimate animated experience for anyone who's ever thrilled to the timeless query: "Ehhh? what's up, Doc?"

Customer Reviews

This is a great dvd set to add to your collection. "jflynn99"  |  103 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1,058 of 1,076 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Golden Rules for Looney Tunes March 23, 2004
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Animation legend Chuck Jones had a mythic set of ground rules for his ingenious Road Runner series: the setting was always the desert, the characters never spoke, the Road Runner never left the road, the Coyote never caught the Road Runner, etc. A similar set of rules seems at work in THE GOLDEN COLLECTION introductory DVD presentation of Warner Bros. animated shorts. Here is the breakdown:

1. The majority of the fifty-six motion pictures included are artistically valuable and the collection as a whole is a sheer delight which belongs in the library of anyone who loves classic cartoons. The set includes such masterpieces and popular favorites as "Duck Amuck", "Bully for Bugs", "Deduce You Say", "Fast and Furry-ous", "Long-Haired Hare", "Rabbit of Seville", "Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", "Wabbit Twouble" and "Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2 Century". All the films, even the weakest, deserve preservation, restoration and DVD availability.

2. The selection of complete shorts spans two decades (1940-59), according to year of initial theatrical release. This means that the heyday of Porky Pig (1936-39) is excluded, along with the historic Harman-Ising period (1930-33) and such early characters as Bosko, Buddy and Foxy. On the other hand, the set is also free of material from the Warner cartoon studio's years of decline (1960-64) and decay (1965-69).

3. Within the 1940-59 span is an intensive focus on the six-year "middle" period 1948-53, when the Warner cartoons were at their technical zenith. Fully half of the films in the collection were released during the three peak years of 1949-51 (ten in 1950 alone). The high degree of concentration allows for appreciation of the studio output of a particular era, lent contrast and variety by the broader context.

4. The star of the show is unquestionably Bugs Bunny, with twenty-one cartoons. There is an adequate amount, for a starter set, of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Sylvester & Tweety. Key films of the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn and Speedy Gonzales are duly included. Important supporting characters like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Marvin the Martian are well-represented, and the Tasmanian Devil makes a token appearance. The bill is rounded out with a few one-shots and curios.

5. The individual directors at Warner's animation studio are as notable as its character stars. A full twenty-five of the films (almost half) are by superstar director Chuck Jones (and written by Michael Maltese). Most of the rest are directed by Friz Freling, with several by Robert McKimson and one by Arthur Davis. Only three films are directed by the great Bob Clampett.

6. There are no films directed by the legendary Tex Avery, who departed the studio in the early 1940's, or the influential stylist Frank Tashlin.

7. Most cartoons are voiced by the amazing Mel Blanc.

8. All cartoons are scored by Music Director Carl W. Stalling or his immediate successor.

9. Most notable of the anomalies is the poor showing of the ultra-popular (and ultra-"violent") Road Runner, with only one episode (albeit his debut); while tired old Foghorn Leghorn encores with an undistinguished late episode -- rather than, say, "The High and the Flighty", his memorable pairing with Daffy Duck. In keeping with Rule #6, Avery's Oscar-nominated classic "A Wild Hare" (1940), the first "true" Bugs Bunny cartoon, is supplanted by Jones' "Elmer's Candid Camera", a rare prototype from earlier that year which features the debut of Elmer Fudd and the still-evolving Wascal Wabbit. And the extras, in their mania for completeness, include the animated excerpts from the feature films TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS and MY DREAM IS YOURS twice each, but only one version is digitally restored.

10. Not all of these Golden Era cartoons are masterpieces or true classics, but the less exceptional films included represent the high standard against which the extraordinary stand out. A technically crude quota quickie like McKimson's "Rabbit's Kin" shines because voice artist Stan Freburg's endearingly dumb Pete Puma character is memorable. A couple of genuine duds (Davis' "Porky Chops", for instance) have been thrown in for good measure, and even these serve to offset the overall excellence of the remainder.

11. Organization is minimal, with most of the Bugs Bunny material on Disc One, Daffy and Porky on Disc Two, and the others in an "All-Star" free-for-all on Discs Three and Four. The cartoons are presented in seemingly random order, but this very randomness is exactly how audiences experienced them both in theaters and on television.

12. The hours of extras are an embarrassment of riches.

13. Such beloved masterpieces as "Beanstalk Bunny", "Duck, Rabbit, Duck!", "Robin Hood Daffy", "The Singing Sword", "The Three Little Bops", the Oscar-Winning Rabbit's "Knighty-Knight Bugs", and (supremely) "One Froggy Evening" and "What's Opera, Doc?", have been withheld for future DVD editions. The set is designed to whet the appetite for more and leaves the grateful viewer with much to look forward to.

14. THE GOLDEN COLLECTION is worth more than its cost in dollars and is an infinitely better investment than the cheap alternate "Premiere Collection", which simply duplicates Discs Three and Four with no extras. The Premiere Collection is kiddie fodder for the undiscerning bargain-store shopper and is to be avoided by anyone concerned with art and popular culture. High sales of the vastly superior Golden Edition will determine future releases, so buy 'em up and give 'em to your friends.

CARTOONS ARE FOR EVERYONE!

Rating: 10/10 ***** EXTRAORDINARY.
Was this review helpful to you?
475 of 480 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Directorial Information Organized by Disc February 25, 2006
Format:DVD
For those of you who have a favorite Director you may have found categorization by character quite frustrating. Personally I don't care for a whole disc of Bugs, or a whole disc of Daffy; I want a whole disc of Chuck or a whole disc of Friz. Even the fine episode lists above, which really do hold all the information you need, are not organized according to how the episodes appear on the discs in the collection. To remedy this problem I have the following list to provide you with the episodes, organized in the order they appear on the discs, and who directed them. I hope this proves useful to someone, and will save them from having to do this all over again themselves.

Volume One: Disc One

1.Baseball Bugs (Friz Freleng)

2.Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)

3.Long-Haired Hare (Chuck Jones)

4.High Diving Hare (Friz Freleng)

5.Bully for Bugs (Chuck Jones)

6.What's Up Doc? (Robert McKimson)

7.Rabbit's Kin (Robert McKimson)

8.Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones)

9.Big House Bunny (Friz Freleng)

10.Big Top Bunny (Robert McKimson)

11.My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (Chuck Jones)

12.Wabbit Twouble (Bob Clampett)

13.Ballot Box Bunny (Friz Freleng)

14.Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)

Volume One: Disc Two

1.Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)

2.Dough for the Do-Do (Bob Clampett)

3.Drip Along Daffy (Chuck Jones)

4.Scaredy Cat (Chuck Jones)

5.The Ducksters (Chuck Jones)

6.The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Chuck Jones)

7.Yankee Doodle Daffy (Friz Freleng)

8.Porky Chops (Arthur Davis)

9.Wearing of the Grin (Chuck Jones)

10.Deduce, You Say (Chuck Jones)

11.Boobs in the Woods (Robert McKimson)

12.Golden Yeggs (Friz Freleng)

13.Rabbit Fire (Chuck Jones)

14.Duck Dodgers in the 24 ˝ Century (Chuck Jones)

Volume One: Disc Three

1.Elmer's Candid Camera (Chuck Jones)

1.Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (Chuck Jones)

2.Fast and Furry-ous (Chuck Jones)

3.Hair Raising Hare (Chuck Jones)

4.The Awful Orphan (Chuck Jones)

5.Haredevil Hare (Chuck Jones)

6.For Scent-imental Reasons (Chuck Jones)

7.Frigid Hare (Chuck Jones)

8.The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (Chuck Jones)

9.Baton Bunny (Chuck Jones)

10.Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)

11.Don't Give up the Sheep (Chuck Jones)

12.Bugs Bunny gets the Boid (Bob Clampett)

13.Tortoise Wins by a Hare (Bob Clampett)

Volume One: Disc Four

1.Canary Row (Friz Freleng)

2.Bunker Hill Bunny (Friz Freleng)

3.Kit for Cat (Friz Freleng)

4.Putty Tat Trouble (Friz Freleng)

5.Bugs and Thugs (Friz Freleng)

6.Canned Feud (Friz Freleng)

7.Lumber Jerks (Friz Freleng)

8.Speedy Gonzales (Friz Freleng)

9.Tweety's S.O.S. (Friz Freleng)

10.The Foghorn Leghorn (Robert McKimson)

11.Daffy Duck Hunt (Robert McKimson)

12.Early to Bet (Robert McKimson)

13.Broken Leghorn (Robert McKimson)

14.Devil May Hare (Robert McKimson)
Was this review helpful to you?
246 of 252 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
QUERY: "What's Up, Doc?"
ANSWER: My favorite DVD of the year. Possibly of all time.

The original LOONEY TUNES gang is back, and boy do they look terrific. Warner Home Video has compiled a terrific selection of 56 animated gems starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky, Pig, Elmer Fudd, along with dozens of other characters, and added hours and hours of bonus features and documentaries. This is sure to become a perennial in anyone's serious DVD collection.

Best of all, the cartoons have been GORGEOUSLY restored. Restoration means bringing something back to its ORIGINAL form, and that's what Warner Bros. has lovingly done here. The glorious Technicolor imagery is mind-boggling, the animation art is sharp and clear. So sharp and clear that you see can even see the dust that was on the original cels these cartoons were painted on.

THAT'S restoration.

Thank heavens Warner didn't go the route that Disney did with SLEEPING BEAUTY and monkey around with these images, wiping out all traces of the original cel animation and making them look like CGI. No, it's beautiful old-style animation, and each cartoon has been restored to look as they did when they first hit theater screens decades ago.

Each cartoon on this collection is an American classic in its own right. Happily these classics have not been tampered with, but are presented with the utmost respect and attention for the masterpieces they truly are.

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Scenes kept freezing
I bought this collection for my nieces and nephews hoping it would derive the same pleasure it did for me growing up. Well, the dvd would freeze up every 5 min. Read more
Published 22 hours ago by DAWN MUNFORD
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for granddaughter's birthday.
This was my granddaughter's gift, she requested a collection that i had and gave to my grandson. She was estatic...
Published 1 day ago by Judith Tyras
5.0 out of 5 stars Birthday gift
Ordered this for a birthday gift. It came within 2 days. My brother enjoys collecting movies, so I knew this would be a good item for him.
Published 8 days ago by LeiLei's mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome beginning collection
We bought this with the idea of buying all of the sets. Guess what? They came out with all of the first 6 sets together in 2011 and this one is included! Read more
Published 1 month ago by c2
5.0 out of 5 stars For the next generation of kids
I gave this as a gift to my neices and nephews, and when they first started watching I thought that maybe they would think this sort of lame compared to todays cartoons, but almost... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jay Whitney
4.0 out of 5 stars Bugs Bunny is our favorite!
I purchased this set of DVD's so that I could "educate" my children on the Barber of Seville. One of the classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd feuds. Read more
Published 2 months ago by L. Tripp
5.0 out of 5 stars always a good laugh
This came in great condition. These videos will make people of all ages laugh with wholesome cartoons. Bugs Bunny is the best!
Published 2 months ago by Kristyn Hage
5.0 out of 5 stars Only 3 Bob Clampetts...
Most of these cartoons will be familiar from the Saturday morning shows where a lot of us got our introduction to Warner Bros. great cartoonists. So, not a lot of surprise here. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Archmaker
5.0 out of 5 stars Looney Tunes Best Cartoons EVER
A wonderful way in which to share a very important part of your childhood with your grandchildren of today! Love them! Highly recommend for cartoon watching for your children.
Published 2 months ago by Debby Hancock
4.0 out of 5 stars berry good
Fantastic classic cartoons, I love them to death.

Only drawback is when watching many in a row the beginning gets annoying and seems to take up too much time of the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by clifton r roberson
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews


Forums

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions

Topic From this Discussion
Need help identifying a classic cartoon Be the first to reply
Bugs delivered by stork to gorilla couple
sctydog

There was a couple of similiar Bugs cartoons one was Apes of Wrath 1959...i think another was Gorilla me dreams..i believe that one was in 1948
Mar 7, 2012 by BigJim |  See all 3 posts
HELP me find Bugs Bunny episode
The episode was called "Hare-less Wolf" -

You might enjoy this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV5g76f1ks0
Dec 7, 2008 by gueppe barre |  See all 10 posts
Looking for old Bugs Bunny cartoons
The cartoon you're describing is "Bully for Bugs" (1953) which is on disc one of Looney Tunes - Golden Collection - Volume 1.

Here's some background --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Bugs
http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3762-Bully_For_Bugs.html

I'm... Read more
Oct 12, 2011 by steveg |  See all 2 posts
Help With The Name of Looney Tune Episode.
1. The taxi cab one is a Tex Avery short called One Cab's Family.
2. Curtain Razor, with Porky, involves a talent show audtion where rejects are dropped through a trap door. I haven't seen it on the Golden Collections.
There may have been more than one of this type of cartoon with auditions for... Read more
Jul 26, 2008 by Baron Sardonicus |  See all 45 posts
Looney Tunes on Blu-ray ?
I do not think they have any plans to release Loony Toons on Blu-Ray, I have the feeling that it would be too expensive for the companies.
Jun 12, 2011 by Nicholas Azzilonna |  See all 3 posts
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 




Look for Similar Items by Category