Press Release Warner Archive Collection Press Release: Looney Tunes Collector's Vault - Volume 1 (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[TravisR]

Corporate logic is an oxymoron...

There's too many dopey conspiracy theories out there today but it seems like Zaslav or someone at Warners has a vendetta against Looney Tunes. They dropped that Wile E. Coyote movie to legally cheat on their taxes, they unloaded The Day The Earth Blew Up and now, they've dropped the shorts off of their streaming service. What sense is there in dropping all of them? I can believe that Looney Tunes aren't as popular as they used to be but getting rid of them whole cloth is just a bad move because it makes HBO Max look bad by getting rid of an entire very recognizable part of their service. Just leave a few of them on there and this isn't a headline and no one complains.

Also, didn't the shorts get dropped before and they came back because people griped?

 

[SwatDB]

These are more necessary and than ever now that damned Zaslav has taken them off of Max. Sometimes, I wish I could understand corporate logic.

Pearls of Wisdom (in the meantime): Have any of you guys checked MAX on either Latin America [Mexico] or Brazil?

 

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

There's too many dopey conspiracy theories out there today but it seems like Zaslav or someone at Warners has a vendetta against Looney Tunes. They dropped that Wile E. Coyote movie to legally cheat on their taxes, they unloaded The Day The Earth Blew Up and now, they've dropped the shorts off of their streaming service. What sense is there in dropping all of them? I can believe that Looney Tunes aren't as popular as they used to be but getting rid of them whole cloth is just a bad move because it makes HBO Max look bad by getting rid of an entire very recognizable part of their service. Just leave a few of them on there and this isn't a headline and no one complains.

Also, didn't the shorts get dropped before and they came back because people griped?

I hope they will not be destroyed... without them, there'd be no more of these Blu-Ray sets.

We also have them on MeTV Toons!

~Ben

 

[B-ROLL]

There's too many dopey conspiracy theories out there today but it seems like Zaslav or someone at Warners has a vendetta against Looney Tunes. They dropped that Wile E. Coyote movie to legally cheat on their taxes, they unloaded The Day The Earth Blew Up and now, they've dropped the shorts off of their streaming service. What sense is there in dropping all of them? I can believe that Looney Tunes aren't as popular as they used to be but getting rid of them whole cloth is just a bad move because it makes HBO Max look bad by getting rid of an entire very recognizable part of their service. Just leave a few of them on there and this isn't a headline and no one complains.

Also, didn't the shorts get dropped before and they came back because people griped?

This doesn't make any sense since they have a hand drawn movie/film that just came out ...

 

[Patrick McCart]

I hope they will not be destroyed... without them, there'd be no more of these Blu-Ray sets.

We also have them on MeTV Toons!

~Ben

I've noticed a trend that a lot of people online seem to believe stuff being taken off streaming services to be like wiping tapes or junking film. They're just not on one specific service, it's not like they're throwing reels into the fire right after deleting a link. From what I understand of streaming platforms, the actual video files are probably still there, just not actively linked.

 

[Robert Harris]

I've noticed a trend that a lot of people online seem to believe stuff being taken off streaming services to be like wiping tapes or junking film. They're just not on one specific service, it's not like they're throwing reels into the fire right after deleting a link. From what I understand of streaming platforms, the actual video files are probably still there, just not actively linked.

One never knows. Keep in mind that one exec at Fox made a decision to destroy the entire Fox Technicolor library.

Oops?

 

[Robert Crawford]

One never knows. Keep in mind that one exec at Fox made a decision to destroy the entire Fox Technicolor library.

Oops?

Wasn't that years ago before home video.

 

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

Wasn't that years ago before home video.

Yes, however, I don't believe they were actually destroyed on purpose. They were destroyed because of the fire that broke out in 1978 at the George Eastman House where they were stored at the time.

~Ben

 

[TravisR]

This doesn't make any sense since they have a hand drawn movie/film that just came out ...

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Warners is not distributing the movie (Ketchcup Entertianment is) so I guess they've got a lot smaller stake and they don't care about having a very obvious and easy tie-in on HBO Max? It's either an incredibly dumb move or a deliberate slight but both of those answers are just senseless on Warners' part.

 

[Garysb]

So if I am understanding the situation correctly Warner Bros. originally was going to produce "The Day The Earth Blew Up" as a Max TV series. Then it was going to be a Max TV movie. Then it was going to be a theatrical release but when Discovery purchased Warner Bros the release was cancelled and was going to be a tax write-off like the Coyote movie but Warner Bros allowed the movie to be shopped to other distributors and, unlike the Coyote movie, found a distributor, Ketchup Entertainment. No love for the Looney Tunes .

 

[SwatDB]

So if I am understanding the situation correctly Warner Bros. originally was going to produce "The Day The Earth Blew Up" as a Max TV series. Then it was going to be a Max TV movie. Then it was going to be a theatrical release but when Discovery purchased Warner Bros the release was cancelled and was going to be a tax write-off like the Coyote movie but Warner Bros allowed the movie to be shopped to other distributors and, unlike the Coyote movie, found a distributor, Ketchup Entertainment. No love for the Looney Tunes .

In the meantime, I'm have a plane to catch, as I'm on streaming investigation how many classic shorts in HD, not on BD, there are in the Mexican or Brazilian part of Max [just a tip]

- David

 

[Paul Penna]

Yes, however, I don't believe they were actually destroyed on purpose. They were destroyed because of the fire that broke out in 1978 at the George Eastman House where they were stored at the time.

That happened to MGM negatives. Fox deliberately dumped their nitrate negatives, including three-strip Technicolor camera negs, in the 1970s. Robert Harris often makes mention.

 

[dana martin]

I can understand the frustrations... think the merger of WB into WBD, was not the best way for the company to proceed forward and the seams are starting to show. Discovery and their corporate heads IMO don't understand the true nature of the film history, not just of these shorts, but a few other things as well. Not everyone interested in their brand of reality programing.

thankfully the archive is run by someone who does understand!

sorry for the rant, going to see Daffy and Porky at the theater again just to rub it in that they made a mistake!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

COMING TO BLU-RAY ON JUNE 17th FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION!
LOONEY TUNES COLLECTOR'S VAULT Volume 1:
Now we reveal what FIFTY cartoon classics will be included on this new two disc set!

DISC ONE-25 all never before included remastered in any DVD or Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

BARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
A DAY AT THE ZOO
THE DIXIE FRYER
DOUBLE OR MUTTON
EACH DAWN I CROW
EASY PECKIN’S
FEATHER DUSTED
FOX IN A FIX
GOOD NIGHT ELMER
THE GOOFY GOPHERS
I'D LOVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU
KIDDIES KITTY, A
LET IT BE ME
OF FOX AND HOUNDS
QUACKODILE TEARS
READY, WOOLEN AND ABLE
ROBIN HOOD MAKES GOOD
SQUAWKIN' HAWK, THE
TERRIER-STRICKEN
TWEET AND LOVELY
TWEETY'S CIRCUS
TWO'S A CROWD
WILD ABOUT HURRY
ZIP 'N SNORT

DISC TWO-25 all never before included remastered in HD as part of any Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

AIN’T SHE TWEET
BANTY RAIDS
BIRTH OF A NOTION
BYE BYE BLUEBEARD
CAT-TAILS FOR TWO
DAFFY DILLY
DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD
GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
GONZALES’ TAMALES
HARE CONDITIONED
HARE TRIGGER
HARE TRIMMED
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
LITTLE BOY BOO
MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING
ODOR-ABLE KITTY
PAST PERFUMANCE
PORKY’S DUCK HUNT
RABBIT PUNCH
RED RIDING HOODWINKED
RHAPSODY RABBIT
SNOW BUSINESS
TOM TURK AND DAFFY
TWO CROWS FROM TACOS
ZOOM AND BORED

 

[Broomy]

COMING TO BLU-RAY ON JUNE 17th FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION!
LOONEY TUNES COLLECTOR'S VAULT Volume 1:
Now we reveal what FIFTY cartoon classics will be included on this new two disc set!

DISC ONE-25 all never before included remastered in any DVD or Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

BARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
A DAY AT THE ZOO
THE DIXIE FRYER
DOUBLE OR MUTTON
EACH DAWN I CROW
EASY PECKIN’S
FEATHER DUSTED
FOX IN A FIX
GOOD NIGHT ELMER
THE GOOFY GOPHERS
I'D LOVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU
KIDDIES KITTY, A
LET IT BE ME
OF FOX AND HOUNDS
QUACKODILE TEARS
READY, WOOLEN AND ABLE
ROBIN HOOD MAKES GOOD
SQUAWKIN' HAWK, THE
TERRIER-STRICKEN
TWEET AND LOVELY
TWEETY'S CIRCUS
TWO'S A CROWD
WILD ABOUT HURRY
ZIP 'N SNORT

DISC TWO-25 all never before included remastered in HD as part of any Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

AIN’T SHE TWEET
BANTY RAIDS
BIRTH OF A NOTION
BYE BYE BLUEBEARD
CAT-TAILS FOR TWO
DAFFY DILLY
DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD
GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
GONZALES’ TAMALES
HARE CONDITIONED
HARE TRIGGER
HARE TRIMMED
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
LITTLE BOY BOO
MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING
ODOR-ABLE KITTY
PAST PERFUMANCE
PORKY’S DUCK HUNT
RABBIT PUNCH
RED RIDING HOODWINKED
RHAPSODY RABBIT
SNOW BUSINESS
TOM TURK AND DAFFY
TWO CROWS FROM TACOS
ZOOM AND BORED

A good list of shorts on both discs. I’m very happy about Hare Trimmed as that’s my favourite Bugs Bunny short. I also should’ve put Horton Hatches The Egg on my guess list originally as that was an obvious choice for an upgrade. My one minor nitpick is the continued lack of Black and White shorts on these sets. The Harman-Ising and Porky shorts from the 30s are really underrated so I hope we’ll see more in future volumes.

Lastly, I wonder if this approach is the way to go with the MGM library? That way we can get some much needed improvement on the Tom and Jerry shorts on the first Golden Collection.

 

[SwatDB]

COMING TO BLU-RAY ON JUNE 17th FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION!
LOONEY TUNES COLLECTOR'S VAULT Volume 1:
Now we reveal what FIFTY cartoon classics will be included on this new two disc set!

DISC ONE-25 all never before included remastered in any DVD or Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

BARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
A DAY AT THE ZOO
THE DIXIE FRYER
DOUBLE OR MUTTON
EACH DAWN I CROW
EASY PECKIN’S
FEATHER DUSTED
FOX IN A FIX
GOOD NIGHT ELMER
THE GOOFY GOPHERS
I'D LOVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU
KIDDIES KITTY, A
LET IT BE ME
OF FOX AND HOUNDS
QUACKODILE TEARS
READY, WOOLEN AND ABLE
ROBIN HOOD MAKES GOOD
SQUAWKIN' HAWK, THE
TERRIER-STRICKEN
TWEET AND LOVELY
TWEETY'S CIRCUS
TWO'S A CROWD
WILD ABOUT HURRY
ZIP 'N SNORT

DISC TWO-25 all never before included remastered in HD as part of any Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

AIN’T SHE TWEET
BANTY RAIDS
BIRTH OF A NOTION
BYE BYE BLUEBEARD
CAT-TAILS FOR TWO
DAFFY DILLY
DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD
GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
GONZALES’ TAMALES
HARE CONDITIONED
HARE TRIGGER
HARE TRIMMED
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
LITTLE BOY BOO
MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING
ODOR-ABLE KITTY
PAST PERFUMANCE
PORKY’S DUCK HUNT
RABBIT PUNCH
RED RIDING HOODWINKED
RHAPSODY RABBIT
SNOW BUSINESS
TOM TURK AND DAFFY
TWO CROWS FROM TACOS
ZOOM AND BORED

Imagine there were Music-Only Tracks or Music & Effects Tracks were included as well (hope you guys bought your GC DVDs for harmonic purposes)

Nice update, Regardless.
Thank you, very much WB and Team

 

[Peter Neski]

pretty nice, no black and white and plenty of latter stuff as usual

 

[Traveling Matt]

There's too many dopey conspiracy theories out there today but it seems like Zaslav or someone at Warners has a vendetta against Looney Tunes.

I and many others have been very patiently waiting (for about ten years now) for La-La Land Records to release the final CD volume of music from Batman The Animated Series, but Warner licenses to boutique soundtrack labels are basically dead in the water in the Zaslav era. So I don't think it's just Looney Tunes.

As for this new Blu-ray series format, this must bring us ever closer to the entire catalog of at least the color cartoons being restored, and with it also bringing us closer to the potential for a large BD box set collecting everything (ideally from 1930-1969). Patiently waiting for that too.

Great release!

 

[Ethan Riley]

I really can't complain about anything on either list. There are some on the "never before released" list that honestly surprised me, so I'm really looking forward to that. Does amazon have a pre-order page yet?

 

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

COMING TO BLU-RAY ON JUNE 17th FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION!
LOONEY TUNES COLLECTOR'S VAULT Volume 1:
Now we reveal what FIFTY cartoon classics will be included on this new two disc set!

DISC ONE-25 all never before included remastered in any DVD or Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

BARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
A DAY AT THE ZOO
THE DIXIE FRYER
DOUBLE OR MUTTON
EACH DAWN I CROW
EASY PECKIN’S
FEATHER DUSTED
FOX IN A FIX
GOOD NIGHT ELMER
THE GOOFY GOPHERS
I'D LOVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU
KIDDIES KITTY, A
LET IT BE ME
OF FOX AND HOUNDS
QUACKODILE TEARS
READY, WOOLEN AND ABLE
ROBIN HOOD MAKES GOOD
SQUAWKIN' HAWK, THE
TERRIER-STRICKEN
TWEET AND LOVELY
TWEETY'S CIRCUS
TWO'S A CROWD
WILD ABOUT HURRY
ZIP 'N SNORT

DISC TWO-25 all never before included remastered in HD as part of any Blu-ray Looney Tunes collection:

AIN’T SHE TWEET
BANTY RAIDS
BIRTH OF A NOTION
BYE BYE BLUEBEARD
CAT-TAILS FOR TWO
DAFFY DILLY
DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD
GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
GONZALES’ TAMALES
HARE CONDITIONED
HARE TRIGGER
HARE TRIMMED
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
LITTLE BOY BOO
MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING
ODOR-ABLE KITTY
PAST PERFUMANCE
PORKY’S DUCK HUNT
RABBIT PUNCH
RED RIDING HOODWINKED
RHAPSODY RABBIT
SNOW BUSINESS
TOM TURK AND DAFFY
TWO CROWS FROM TACOS
ZOOM AND BORED

More 1930s-early '40s shorts never before included here:
Bars and Stripes Forever (4/8/39, Hardaway & Dalton)
Beauty and the Beast (4/14/34, Freleng; processed in Cinecolor)
A Day at the Zoo (3/11/39, Avery)
Good Night, Elmer (10/26/40, Jones)
I'd Love to Take Orders from You (5/16/36, Avery)
Let It Be Me (5/2/36, Freleng)
Of Fox and Hounds (12/7/40, Avery)
Robin Hood Makes Good (2/11/39, Jones)
The Squawkin' Hawk (8/8/42, Jones; debut of Henery Hawk)

~Ben