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Author Topic: Finally! WB remastering Looney Tunes Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-23-2003 02:05 PM                        Apparently a DVD release is in the works. Toon Zone Forum link  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-23-2003 03:03 PM                        Hi Paul, That is wonderful news! I had several laserdiscs box sets of Warner Brothers cartoons and I thought they looked pretty good. All Warner Brothers color cartoons and feature films in the forties were in Technicolor using the three strip dye transfer process so the DVDs made from them should look awesome. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-23-2003 04:03 PM                     I wonder how they are going to go about releasing them? Are they going to relese them in order almost like a season one, season two, etc.? Are they going to do in a collection basis group by characters or themes? Are they going to relese the banned episodes (there are many from WWII that I haven't been able to see)? It will be interesting to say the least. I know that I am pretty much going to buy each and every one as they come out.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-23-2003 06:59 PM                        I liked the way the LT's were organized when they came out on LD, so hopefully the DVD releases will follow a similar pattern. One LD release consisted of five box sets (!) and was an attempt at a comprehensive package--virtually every pre-1948 title that could be released. There was a second series of single-disc LD releases of post-1948 titles that were organized by featured characters or themes. Each disc was a "selected highlights" compilation for a character (or a pair of characters), with one disc Assorted Nuts being a collection of LT's that featured the other second-tier WB "contract players." This is the series that I have in my collection. My favorite: Curtain Calls which contained the various opera and vaudeville sendups perpetrated by the Termite Terrace gang. All of the LT titles are once again under one roof via AOL Time Warner, so production dates shouldn't matter any more. In Japan WB has already released three R2 DVDs all featuring Tweety--apparently Japan's favorite LT character (supposedly because he looks a lot like an SD or CB-mode anime character!). The film transfers on these discs are flawless--hopefully the eventual R1 DVDs will look just as good.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-25-2003 12:47 PM                     I'd much rather see them in theatres ! Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-25-2003 12:59 PM                        Now wouldn't that be something? Hmmm. Re-release some of the best of the LT's to theaters as a celebration and promotion (since they're plugging DVD releases in rolling stock nowadays anyways, why not plug something worth plugging?). Nah, never work (i.e. make money)...  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-26-2003 11:48 PM                     Yes, I agree with Mark. These belong in theaters and UNCUT. Jerry Beck's website reports that WB has also started to restore the two reel Max Fleischer Popeye Technicolor specials. The first is Popeye Meets Sinbad.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 05-27-2003 08:46 AM                     I agree! Run them in the theatre! When Turner got the rights, his people got to handle some IB 35mm prints that had not been touched since 1958-59. A few of the prints were on Eastman stock, and are faded. The AAP logos on the heads were all Eastmancolor. Wouldn't you like to KICK the person that added the AAP logos to the 35mm prints? He cut into the sound on almost EVERY one! I've got a 16mm print of "Streamlined Greta Green" (1936) that has almost a full second of sound before the AAP cut. It's on Ansco stock and still looks nice, except for the greenish tinge. I 'restored' it properly by removing the logo. I sure hope that the person that cut the IB's doesent have relatives here. Just my luck!  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-23-2003 03:27 PM                        The title list for The Looney Tunes Golden Collection 4-disc DVD compilation set (apparently discs Three and Four are identical to another DVD compilation The Looney Tunes Premier Collection): Disc One (Bugs Bunny) 1. Baseball Bugs 2. Rabbit Seasoning 3. Long-Haired Hare 4. High Diving Hare 5. Bully for Bugs 6. What's Up Doc? 7. Rabbit's Kin 8. Water, Water Every Hare 9. Big House Bunny 10. Big Top Bunny 11. My Bunny Lies Over the Sea 12. Wabbit Twouble 13. Ballot Box Bunny 14. Rabbit of Seville Disc Two (Daffy & Porky) 1. Duck Amuck 2. Dough for the Do-Do 3. Drip-Along Daffy 4. Scaredy Cat 5. The Ducksters 6. The Scarlet Pumpernickel 7. Yankee Doodle Daffy 8. Porky Chops 9. Wearing of the Grin 10. Deduce, You Say 11. Boobs in the Woods 12. Golden Yeggs 13. Rabbit Fire 14. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century Disc Three (All Stars) 1. Elmer's Candid Camera 2. Bugs Bunny and the 3 Bears 3. Fast and Furry-ous 4. Hair-Raising Hare 5. The Awful Orphan 6. Haredevil Hair 7. For Scent-imental Reasons 8. Frigid Hare 9. The Hypo-condricat 10. Baton Bunny 11. Feed the Kitty 12. Don't Give Up the Sheep 13. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid 14. Tortoise Wins by a Hare Disc Four (All Stars) 1. Canary Row 2. Bunker Hill Bunny 3. Kit for Cat 4. Putty Tat Twouble 5. Bugs and Thugs 6. Canned Feud 7. Lumber Jerks 8. Speedy Gonzales 9. Tweety's S.O.S. 10. The Foghorn Leghorn 11. Daffy Duck Hunt 12. Early to Bet 13. Broken Leghorn 14. Devil May Hare  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-23-2003 03:48 PM                     Release Date? Price?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-23-2003 05:46 PM                        Heh heh, sorry! Release Date: October 28, 2003 MSRP: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection $64.92 MSRP: The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection $26.99  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-23-2003 09:14 PM                     I'm in line already to buy my set. This is great news.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-23-2003 10:12 PM                        I'll be buying this too, but why can't they realize the full potential of the DVD and quit screwing around with so many disks? 14 toons = just over 90 minutes per disk. They could easily have put this set on 2 disks. AND, I would love to see a nice box-set of each character, not these mish-mashes. Where's a 10-disk set of Bugs Bunny? This isn't the worst though...I saw a FIVE-DISK set of the Andy Griffith show that has (get ready) just TWO episodes per disk. Pretty funny when you can buy a "full season" of some shows on 3 disks.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-02-2003 04:14 PM                        More on this: WB is also releasing a DVD of "Space Jam" which includes the film in widescreen for the first time, a short "Jammin' with Michael Jordan" and best of all, an hour of classic LT shorts not available on the other collections. Other items being released include "Reality Check" and "Stranger than Fiction," both containing new material based on current events and popular culture. All of the disks except the above-mentioned "Golden Collection" will feature game content as well as the toons. The "Reality" and "Stranger" DVDs will feature outtakes, character "interviews" and parody commercials. And more good news: Dorinda Marticorena, Warner Home Video executive kids' marketing director, says that the Looney Tunes library "is the pillar of our collectible animation library, and we are looking to continue to grow the brand in 2004 and beyond." So it looks like that's NOT all, folks!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-02-2003 04:58 PM                     Where are the Wile E. Coyote / Roadrunner cartoons? Would they fall under the "Merry Melodies" shorts or a "Chuck Jones Collection"?  |  IP: Logged

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