Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 (2006)

Directed by

Hawley Pratt, Arthur Davis, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones

Country

United States

How it feels

This is a DVD box set of classic Looney Tunes cartoons from the 1940s to 1960s. It has 60 cartoons grouped by themes like Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzales. The set also includes behind-the-scenes features and some cartoons are marked with a warning about outdated stereotypes.

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What happens

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 14, 2006. The fourth release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, eight documentaries, 20 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 18 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 14 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks. This is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is dedicated to Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is dedicated to Speedy Gonzales. Disc four features Sylvester, plus lesser known feline characters such as Conrad the Cat and Claude Cat, among others. Previous Golden Collections included at least one All-Stars disc with no common theme. Like Volume 3, Volume 4 contains a warning about the politically incorrect humor and racial stereotypes in some of the cartoons, but unlike Volume 3's warning, which was a filmed introduction done by Whoopi Goldberg, Volume 4 simply presents a title card before the main menu with the following: The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. The Region 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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