Blu-ray Review Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Volume 1 Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Timothy E]

The Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Volume 1 picks up where Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Volume 4 left off with 50 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.



Disc Information



Studio: Warner Brothers
Distributed By: Warner Archive
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC



Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: English 2.0 DTS-HDMA



Subtitles: English SDH
Rating: Not Rated



Run Time: 6 Hr. 2 Min.
Package Includes: Blu-ray



Case Type: Amaray



Disc Type: BD50 (dual layer)
Region: ABC...

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[Bernard McNair]

Great review, Timothy. I love the WB Loony Tunes shorts and eagerly awaiting my set arriving.

 

[benbess]

Just pre-ordered based on this insightful and positive review. For $22 this 2-disc set with around 6 hours of cartoons is a good value for fans of Looney Tunes.

 

[Robert Harris]

Thank you for giving the time and effort to create this review.

 

[Patrick McCart]

I pre-ordered this as soon as it was up on Amazon, thanks for such a detailed review. While it's unfortunate Warner Archive left off the commentaries and music tracks on some of the disc 2 shorts, it probably would have been a logistics headache. This set has so many essential cartoons, but I'm most excited about the disc 1 shorts since a lot of the 30s cartoons really haven't had much love over the years besides the near-complete (for then Turner-owned cartoons) Golden Age of Looney Tunes laserdiscs.

 

[TravisR]

If you love the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies like I do, this means that you will have to buy every different iteration of these releases and end up with many duplications while still not having the complete series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies at your fingertips. I abandoned all hope about 20 years ago that a complete collection will ever be released in my lifetime, but I will be delighted to be proven wrong on that point.

A truly complete set is never gonna happen (no corporation is going to release or license the Censored 11 ever again) but using Wikipedia, this set makes 734 shorts released between all of the DVDs and Blu-rays. And if you include the shorts that are special features on LT releases and the Warners discs that come with a random cartoon, it's 812 available by my count so with 1,000-ish shorts total, a nearly complete set might not happen but the end is kind of in sight and they got closer than I ever expected.

 

[benbess]

This helpful review has short comments for every cartoon included on this set.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Thank you for your fine review. I watched the first two toons this morning and thought they looked great. I'm going to try to watch a couple each day until I finish this volume.

 

[Wayne Klein]

A nice set to be sure. Thanks to George for continuing to champion these releases. I do wish also the commentaries and special features could have been ported over or with the featurettes but I’m happy that Warner continues to make the commitment.

 

[benbess]

Timothy E writes in the review above: "You can see that the cartoons are included in alphabetical order, as they were on the Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice volumes. I would prefer chronological order..."

I agree. I wish we could have sets where you could see the development from the early 30s to the mid 30s, and then to the late 30s, etc, and then move on the 40s and beyond. I've been collecting Warner Bros. cartoons since VHS days in the late 1980s, and hoping that they'd finally release things chronologically, but alas they just never do it. Sigh.

PS I realize that most of the cartoons produced from 1930 to 1934 or so have limited appeal. The list below says that there were 95 cartoons made in those first five years. Probably a selection of 25 or so would be enough to cover that first era on one disc. The cartoons start to become more fun from 1935-1937, as some are in Technicolor, and the invention of iconic characters like Porky Pig and Daffy duck begins. As many of those as possible should be released from my pov.

In 1938 and 1939 things really get going, and the Termite Terrance animators even start using their version of the Disney multi-plane camera.

Anyway, for all of the 1930s, according to the filmography below, there were 270 Warner Bros. cartoons released. A 6 blu-ray set releasing around 150 or so of those chronologically would be fun and really interesting for a lot of fans of animation imho.

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[BobO'Link]

Do these discs respect the "play one and return to the menu" like you'd expect or are they of the, now typical, WB menu style where you get a "Play all from the selected item" method?

I'm growing increasingly tired of and frustrated by that design on Warner discs... Seems like everything with more than a single "primary" item, TV series and cartoon shorts, do this now and it's quite irritating!

 

[Timothy E]

Do these discs respect the "play one and return to the menu" like you'd expect or are they of the, now typical, WB menu style where you get a "Play all from the selected item" method?

I'm growing increasingly tired of and frustrated by that design on Warner discs... Seems like everything with more than a single "primary" item, TV series and cartoon shorts, do this now and it's quite irritating!

This is of the “Play all from the selected item” variety.