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Re: Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5
Oh, this ridiculous. The first set was practically nothing BUT the cartoons that aired on the various Saturday Morning Looney Tunes programs, and the last three sets have had copious amounts of such cartoons (particularly the fourth one). And as been pointed out, the Post-48's on the Golden Collections actually outnumber the earlier ones.
That brings me to another point, the TV rights to the WB cartoon library was split up like postwar Germany, which was in no way reflective of how the cartoons were originally produced (There were two series of cartoons, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, that featured the same characters, were shown in the same venue, produced and distributed by the same studio, and worked on by mostly the same people). The Turner-Warner merger reunited the cartoons under one single corporate owner and tore down the Berlin Wall that seperated the cartoons based on which ones were made before September 1948.
All of this brings me to say; Why should the arbitrary ownership divisions that these cartoons were given decades after the fact cloud our opinions of these DVD's? Say what you want about whether this topic belongs here or another forum, I think the way Warner is packaging these films (as selections of a wildly diverse series of cartoons that ran for 39 years in theaters, as opposed to basing what they release on archaic TV packages) is just fine
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