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| Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 | |
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| Starring | voice of Mel Blanc |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 442 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 is a DVD box set from Warner Home Video that was released on October 25, 2005.[1] It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, nine documentaries, 32 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 11 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 11 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.
Volume 3 is the first in the series to have a disclaimer on the box art stating that the set "is intended for the adult collector" and may not be suitable for younger audiences. It is also the first to feature a warning, given by Whoopi Goldberg, a fan of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters, who tells the viewers that some of the cartoons on the set contain content that is politically incorrect by today's standards, but will be shown uncut for historical reasons, because "removing these inexcusable images and jokes from this collection would be the same as saying never existed". Future volumes also contain this warning, which is presented instead as a title card before the main menu.
Related releases
As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
- Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3[2]
- Disc 2: not released
- Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 [3]
- Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 [4]
These single-disc versions have changed package of contents, as well as excluding all bonus features.
- Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3 includes the short Super-Rabbit from Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 replacing shorts Rebel Rabbit and Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
- Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 includes the shorts Hollywood Capers and The Film Fan from Disc 2 replacing shorts Porky's Romance, Porky's Party and Porky in Egypt
- Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 includes the shorts The CooCoo Nut Grove, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, The Honey-Mousers and The Last Hungry Cat from Disc 2 replacing shorts Super-Rabbit, Daffy Duck and Egghead, A Gruesome Twosome, An Itch in Time and Gonzales' Tamales
In the UK (Region 2), the set was released unchanged in 2006.
Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Classics
- All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
| # | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hare Force | Willoughby | July 22, 1944 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 2 | Hare Remover | Elmer | March 23, 1946 | Frank Tashlin | MM |
| 3 | Hare Tonic | Elmer | November 10, 1945 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 4 | A Hare Grows in Manhattan | Hector | March 22, 1947 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 5 | Easter Yeggs | Elmer | June 28, 1947 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 6 | The Wabbit Who Came to Supper | Elmer | March 28, 1942 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 7 | Bowery Bugs | June 4, 1949 | Arthur Davis | MM | |
| 8 | Homeless Hare | March 11, 1950 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
| 9 | Case of the Missing Hare | December 12, 1942 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
| 10 | Acrobatty Bunny | June 29, 1946 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
| 11 | Wackiki Wabbit | July 3, 1943 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
| 12 | Hare Do | Elmer | January 15, 1949 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 13 | Rebel Rabbit | April 9, 1949 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
| 14 | Hillbilly Hare | August 12, 1950 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
| 15 | Duck! Rabbit, Duck! | Daffy, Elmer | October 3, 1953 | Chuck Jones | MM |
Special features
Audio bonuses
- Music-and-effects-only audio tracks on Duck! Rabbit, Duck! and Hillbilly Hare
- Audio commentary
- Jerry Beck and Martha Sigal on The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
- Michael Barrier on Bowery Bugs and Hillbilly Hare
- Greg Ford on Case of the Missing Hare
- Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Wackiki Wabbit
- Eric Goldberg on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
From the Vaults
- Chuck Amuck: 1991 Documentary
- The Bugs Bunny Show: The Honey-Mousers bridging sequences; Ball Point Puns audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc
Behind-the-Tunes
- A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy: A look at the creation, comedy, and cultural influence of "The Hunter's Trilogy", three cartoons ("Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", and "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!") in which Daffy sets up Bugs to be shot by Elmer and the two argue over what hunting season it is (only for Daffy to get shot every time).
Disc 2 - Hollywood Caricatures and Parodies
| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daffy Duck in Hollywood | Daffy | December 12, 1938 | Tex Avery | MM |
| 2 | Hollywood Capers | Beans | October 19, 1935 | Jack King | LT |
| 3 | The CooCoo Nut Grove | Ben Birdie | November 28, 1936 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 4 | Porky's Road Race | Porky | February 6, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | LT |
| 5 | The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos | Ben Birdie | December 4, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | MM |
| 6 | She Was an Acrobat's Daughter | April 10, 1937 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
| 7 | The Film Fan | Porky | December 16, 1939 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 8 | Speaking of the Weather | September 4, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | MM | |
| 9 | Thugs with Dirty Mugs | May 6, 1939 | Tex Avery | MM | |
| 10 | Goofy Groceries | March 29, 1941 | Bob Clampett | MM | |
| 11 | Swooner Crooner | Porky | May 6, 1944 | Frank Tashlin | LT |
| 12 | Wideo Wabbit | Bugs, Elmer | October 27, 1956 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 13 | The Honey-Mousers | The Honey-Mousers | December 8, 1956[5] | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 14 | The Last Hungry Cat | Tweety, Sylvester | December 2, 1961 | Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | MM |
| 15 | The Mouse That Jack Built | April 4, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM |
Special features
Audio bonuses
- Music-only audio track on Wideo Wabbit and The Honey-Mousers
- Music-and-effects-only audio track on The Last Hungry Cat
- Audio commentaries
- Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on Hollywood Capers
- Michael Barrier on The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
- Greg Ford on She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, Thugs with Dirty Mugs, and The Mouse That Jack Built with pre-score music
- Daniel Goldmark on Swooner Crooner
- June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Honey-Mousers
From the Vaults
- What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 1 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts:
- A Wild Hare (1940) (unrestored, but with recreated titles)
- The Heckling Hare (1941)
- The Big Snooze (1946)
- Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)
- It's Got Me Again! (1932)
Behind-the-Tunes
- Fine Tooning: Restoring the Warner Bros. Cartoons: A look at how the Warner Bros. cartoons are digitally restored for the Golden Collection DVD sets.
- Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White: A look at the very early Warner Bros. shorts, which either starred Bosko, Buddy, or were thinly-plotted animated music videos based on music from Warner Bros. music library at the time.