Blu-ray Review Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 4 – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Timothy E]

This is Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Volume 4 of this series collecting the wonderfully entertaining theatrical animated shorts created and developed by the gifted talents of Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Arthur Davis, Warren Foster, Tedd Pierce, and others.  Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and Tweety, Coyote and Roadrunner, and Foghorn Leghorn all make appearances in this most recent collection.   The review of Volume 1 can be found here.  The review for Volume 2 is here.  The review for Volume 3 is here.



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Studio: Warner Brothers
Distributed By: Warner Archive...

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[Traveling Matt]

Nice review. I too would like the entire series released in complete, chronological form. So I continue to wait. In the meantime more shorts get restored!

 

[Robert Harris]

Great review, Timothy! Thank you.

These are quite expensive to restore, and for those (I’m included) who would like to see all of them restored in chronological order, keep in mind, there were over a thousand produced.

As an aside, Mr. Jones told me that he never thought of his work as “shorts,” but rather feature films that ran around 7 3/4 minutes. Technicolor printed in 1,000 foot rolls, so the entire film, inclusive of protection head and tail leaders, as well as Academy, could never be longer than a single roll. I guess under 8 minutes was the sweet spot.

For those who really want to delve into the subject, there are numerous books available, from the basic - listing the history of each by Jerry Friedwald (Scarecrow Press), to the great - along with a myriad of imagery. I’d probably begin with Jerry Beck.

 

[Wayne Klein]

Great review, thanks. Looking forward to this set. Bought all the others. Some shorts I don’t care for here but the bulk are pretty terrific. Nice to get some “bonus” shorts though I would love commentary tracks.

 

[David_B_K]

Nice review. I too would like the entire series released in complete, chronological form. So I continue to wait. In the meantime more shorts get restored!

I have bought all the Looney Tunes sets on Blu (including a pre-order for the subject of this review) and still have a region 2 set of the Golden Collections on DVD, so I don't think I'd want to invest in an all-encompassing set at this point. What I would like to see is a database listing all the Looney Tunes that shows which ones are on which collection so I can find them when I want to watch specific cartoons.

 

[Traveling Matt]

I have bought all the Looney Tunes sets on Blu (including a pre-order for the subject of this review) and still have a region 2 set of the Golden Collections on DVD, so I don't think I'd want to invest in an all-encompassing set at this point. What I would like to see is a database listing all the Looney Tunes that shows which ones are on which collection so I can find them when I want to watch specific cartoons.

A 25 or 30-disc Blu-ray set of all the cartoons, and the extras from the Golden Collection DVDs, at a ~$100 Amazon price point would probably be a comparable investment to another 6 or 8 future single discs that still don't finish the series. That's one reason I'm holding off.

 

[BobO'Link]

Looking forward to my V1-V4 set arriving... While I can do without the majority of the post 1960 films, a couple on V4 are at least decent enough and the majority are from the eras I like best (and *two* Foghorn Leghorn in the set!).

 

[Wayne Klein]

Looking forward to my V1-V4 set arriving... While I can do without the majority of the post 1960 films, a couple on V4 are at least decent enough and the majority are from the eras I like best (and *two* Foghorn Leghorn in the set!).

I rarely warm to the ones produced in the 60’s-they look cheap and the writing just isn’t there.