Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4
Directed by	Frank Tashlin Friz Freleng Chuck Jones Robert McKimson Hawley Pratt Bob Clampett Arthur Davis
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Starring	the voices of Mel Blanc June Foray Ralph James Stan Freberg Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher Joe Dougherty Kent Rogers Robert C. Bruce Tedd Pierce Bernice Hansen Marian Richman Norman Nesbitt
Music by	Bill Lava Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date	November 14, 2006 (2006-11-14)
Running time	414 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 14, 2006.^[1]

This is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is dedicated to Speedy Gonzales cartoons. Disc four features Sylvester, plus lesser known feline characters such as Conrad the Cat and Claude Cat, among others.^[2] 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.^[3]

The Region 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others.

As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Region 2:^[4]

• Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4
• Disc 2: Best of Porky & Pals, Volume 3
• Disc 3: Best of Speedy Gonzales, Volume 1
• Disc 4: All Stars, Volume 5

In Australia (Region 4), the stand-alone Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4 was released in 2008. It was the only disc to be released in that territory.^[5]

In Region 1, discs 1 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4.

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.

• Audio commentaries
  • Eric Goldberg on Rabbit Hood and Mississippi Hare
  • Paul Dini on Operation: Rabbit and Hurdy-Gurdy Hare
  • Jerry Beck on 8 Ball Bunny
  • June Foray and Jerry Beck on Rabbit Romeo
• Music only tracks on Knight-mare Hare, Sahara Hare, Barbary Coast Bunny, To Hare Is Human and Rabbit Romeo
• Music and effects track on Operation: Rabbit and Southern Fried Rabbit

• Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott: A look on Raymond Scott's most famous instrumental piece that was used in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts Powerhouse (instrumental)
• Powerhouse in Pictures

• Bugs Bunny: Superstar, Part 1 (1975):
  • What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
  • The Wild Hare (1940)
  • A Corny Concerto (1943)
  • I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
• Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 ½ Minutes (1989)
• The Bugs Bunny Show
  • Ballpoint Puns Bridging Sequences
  • Foreign Legion Leghorn recording sessions
• Trailer Gallery:
  • Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Carnival
  • Bugs Bunny's All-Star Revue

All cartoons on this disc are directed by Frank Tashlin.

• Mark Kausler on The Case of the Stuttering Pig and Porky in the North Woods
• Michael Barrier with Frank Tashlin on Now That Summer is Gone, Cracked Ice and Porky's Poultry Plant
• Daniel Goldmark on You're an Education
• Greg Ford on Plane Daffy and I Got Plenty of Mutton
• Jerry Beck on Puss n' Booty
• Eddie Fitzgerald on The Stupid Cupid

• Bugs Bunny: Superstar, part 2, which contains the following shorts:
  • Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
  • Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
  • My Favorite Duck (1942)
  • Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
  • The Old Grey Hare (1944)
• Porky and Daffy in The William Tell Overture (1991)
• Frank Tashlin Storybooks
  • Little Chic’s Wonderful Mother
  • Tony and Clarence
• Private Snafu shorts
  • The Goldbrick (1943)
  • The Home Front (1943)
  • Censored (1944)^{[n 1]}

All cartoons on this disc star Speedy Gonzales.

• Audio commentaries
  • Stan Freberg and Jerry Beck on Cat-Tails for Two
  • Greg Ford with Friz Freleng on Mexican Boarders
  • Art Leonardi and Jerry Beck on Nuts and Volts
  • Paul Dini on The Wild Chase
• Music only track on Tabasco Road, Mexicali Schmoes, and West of the Pesos
• Music and effects track on Cat-Tails for Two

• 90 Day Wondering (1956 Army reenlistment film by Chuck Jones)^{[n 1]}
• Drafty, Isn’t It? (1957 Army recruitment film by Chuck Jones)

• Friz on Film (new 1-hour documentary)

• Audio commentaries
  • Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on Conrad the Sailor
  • Eddie Fitzgerald on The Aristo-Cat
  • Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on The Aristo-Cat
  • Jerry Beck on Dough Ray Me-ow
  • Daniel Goldmark on Pizzicato Pussycat
  • June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Unexpected Pest
• Music only tracks on Cat Feud, The Unexpected Pest, and Go Fly a Kit
• Music and effects track on A Peck o' Trouble

• One Hit Wonders
• Sing-a-Song of Looney Tunes
• The Art of the Gag
• Wild Lines: The Art of Voice Acting
• Looney Tunes: A Cast of Thousands

• Porky’s Breakdowns (1939 joke reel with Porky swearing) (unavailable on UK release)
• Sahara Hare Storyboard Reel
• Porky’s Poor Fish Storyboard Reel

• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present and miscellaneous)
• List of Bugs Bunny cartoons

• Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour, The - Complete List of Volume 4 Shorts at tvshowsondvd.com
• Hunter, Matthew. "GAC Review: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
• "WHV Releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4". Animation World Network. 2006-11-14. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-05.