| Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 | |
| Director: | Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Robert McKimson Bob Clampett Arthur Davis Abe Levitow |
| Producer: | Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton |
| Starring: | voice of Mel Blanc |
| Music: | Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn |
| Distributor: | Warner Home Video |
| Runtime: | 411 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. The first release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.[1] The set won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards.[2]
In Regions 2 and 4, the discs were packaged as follows:
In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Premiere Collection (also known as Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 1).
All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
| Title | Co-stars | Release date | Director | Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baseball Bugs | The Gashouse Gorillas Baseball Team | Friz Freleng | LT | ||
| 2 | Rabbit Seasoning | Daffy, Elmer | Chuck Jones | MM | ||
| 3 | Long-Haired Hare | Chuck Jones | LT | |||
| 4 | High Diving Hare | Sam | Friz Freleng | LT | ||
| 5 | Bully for Bugs | Chuck Jones | LT | |||
| 6 | What's Up Doc? | Elmer | Robert McKimson | LT | ||
| 7 | Rabbit's Kin | Pete Puma | Robert McKimson | MM | ||
| 8 | Water, Water Every Hare | Gossamer | Chuck Jones | LT | ||
| 9 | Big House Bunny | Sam | Friz Freleng | LT | ||
| 10 | Big Top Bunny | Robert McKimson | MM | |||
| 11 | My Bunny Lies over the Sea | Chuck Jones | MM | |||
| 12 | Wabbit Twouble | Elmer | Bob Clampett | MM | ||
| 13 | Ballot Box Bunny | Sam | Friz Freleng | MM | ||
| 14 | Rabbit of Seville | Elmer | Chuck Jones | LT |
All cartoons on this disc star Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or both.
| Title | Daffy, Porky, or Both? | Co-stars | Release date | Director | Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duck Amuck | Daffy | Bugs | Chuck Jones | MM | ||
| 2 | Dough for the Do-Do | Porky | Friz Freleng | MM | |||
| 3 | Drip-Along Daffy | Both | Nasty Canasta | Chuck Jones | MM | ||
| 4 | Scaredy Cat | Porky | Sylvester | Chuck Jones | MM | ||
| 5 | The Ducksters | Both | Chuck Jones | LT | |||
| 6 | The Scarlet Pumpernickel | Both | Chuck Jones | LT | |||
| 7 | Yankee Doodle Daffy | Both | Friz Freleng | LT | |||
| 8 | Porky Chops | Porky | Arthur Davis | LT | |||
| 9 | The Wearing of the Grin | Porky | Chuck Jones | LT | |||
| 10 | Deduce, You Say! | Both | Chuck Jones | LT | |||
| 11 | Boobs in the Woods | Both | LT | ||||
| 12 | Golden Yeggs | Both | Rocky | Friz Freleng | MM | ||
| 13 | Rabbit Fire | Daffy | Bugs, Elmer | Chuck Jones | LT | ||
| 14 | Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century | Both | Marvin | Chuck Jones | MM |
Cartoons 1-12 are directed by Chuck Jones (10 co-directed by Abe Levitow), 13 and 14 by Bob Clampett.
| Title | Characters | Release date | Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elmer's Candid Camera | Elmer, Happy Rabbit | MM | ||
| 2 | Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears | Bugs, The Three Bears | MM | ||
| 3 | Fast and Furry-ous | Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner | LT | ||
| 4 | Hair-Raising Hare | Bugs, Gossamer | MM | ||
| 5 | Awful Orphan | Charlie, Porky | MM | ||
| 6 | Haredevil Hare | Bugs, K-9, Marvin | LT | ||
| 7 | For Scent-imental Reasons | Pepé, Penelope | LT | ||
| 8 | Frigid Hare | Bugs, Playboy Penguin | MM | ||
| 9 | Claude Cat, Hubie and Bertie | MM | |||
| 10 | Baton Bunny | Bugs | LT | ||
| 11 | Feed the Kitty | Marc and Pussyfoot | MM | ||
| 12 | Don't Give Up the Sheep | Ralph and Sam | LT | ||
| 13 | Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid | Bugs, Beaky | MM | ||
| 14 | Tortoise Wins by a Hare | Bugs, Cecil | MM |
Cartoons 1-9 are directed by Friz Freleng, 10–14 by Robert McKimson.
| Title | Characters | Release date | Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canary Row | Sylvester, Tweety, Granny | MM | ||
| 2 | Bunker Hill Bunny | Bugs, Sam | MM | ||
| 3 | Kit for Cat | Elmer, Sylvester | LT | ||
| 4 | Putty Tat Trouble | Sylvester, Tweety | LT | ||
| 5 | Bugs and Thugs | Bugs, Rocky and Mugsy | LT | ||
| 6 | Canned Feud | Sylvester | LT | ||
| 7 | Lumber Jerks | Goofy Gophers | LT | ||
| 8 | Speedy Gonzales | Speedy, Sylvester | MM | ||
| 9 | Tweety's S.O.S. | Sylvester, Tweety, Granny | MM | ||
| 10 | The Foghorn Leghorn | Foghorn, Henery, Barnyard | MM | ||
| 11 | Daffy Duck Hunt | Barnyard, Daffy, Porky | LT | ||
| 12 | Early to Bet | MM | |||
| 13 | A Broken Leghorn | Foghorn, Prissy | LT | ||
| 14 | Devil May Hare | Bugs, Taz | LT |
In their review of the set, the Parents' Choice Foundation, at their Parents' Choice Award site, awarded the release the "Classic Award" for its high quality in presenting classic material. While cautioning parents about some of the cartoon violence, the review called the set, "solid gold, not just because of the brilliant animated shorts but because of the plethora of commentaries, historical documentaries on the minds behind the madness," and "a true treasure of imagination worth having in your DVD library."[6]
The DVD site, The Digital Bits claimed that Looney Tunes had been one of the most anticipated releases since the inception of the DVD format, and noted that the wait had been "long, but in the end definitely worthwhile." The site's reviewer wrote that the cartoon shorts on the DVDs looked, "brighter, much more colourful, cleaner, sharper, and generally better-framed than their Laserdisc counterparts," which, until that time, had been the best home-format for viewing the cartoons. The reviewer noted that the "very generous selection of supplements" were "almost uniformly informative and entertaining."[7]
The multimedia news and reviews website, IGN complained about the selection of shorts offered on the first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. First pointing out that it would be impossible not to leave out major cartoons by selecting only 56 out of the 1,100 Looney Tunes, the review criticized the selection for the omission of Knighty Knight Bugs, an Academy Award-winning 1958 Bugs Bunny cartoon.[8] IGN complimented the restoration of the shorts, but noted that dust was visible in some cases. The reviewer noted that there were more extras than cartoons on the set, and singled out the audio commentaries for praise due to their variety.[9]