{"id":252,"date":"2006-04-28T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-04-28T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:26:29","slug":"looney-tunes-golden-collection-volume-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/28\/looney-tunes-golden-collection-volume-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it's right around <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/29\/looney-tunes-golden-collection-volume-3\/\">this time every year<\/a> that I start to get excited about the upcoming Looney Tunes release, and this year is no exception.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/yahooads.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ypn-js.overture.com\/partner\/js\/ypn.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I've been a collector of the 1000+ Looney Tunes\/Merrie Melodies cartoons for about three years now, I got into this hobby just before Warner Brothers (WB) finally got their act together and started releasing these treasures on some high quality DVD collections so the bulk of my collection is either taped from Cartoon Network (before they took Looney Tunes off the air) or acquired through various trades arranged over the internet.  In a little over two years I was able to collect a copy of every single cartoon in some form <em>[edit: except one]<\/em> and now I'm in the process of taking these shorts and putting them onto my hard drive for maximum geek effect.  One day I'll set up a media server (maybe using components of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/\">MythTV<\/a>)...<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, even though most of the people who created these 50-year old cartoons are now dead, I will still gladly fork over my money to the Warner Brothers corporation if they continue to release these Golden Collections.  Unfortunately they are doing so at a release of only one 60-cartoon volume a year:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=codedread-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0000AYJXS&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=codedread-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00020SK1Y&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=codedread-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000ADS62G&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=codedread-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000ADS62Q&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Speculation about the contents of Golden Collection Volume 4:  I've seen enough complaints on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000ADS62G\/qid=1146233505\/sr=8-2\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/102-5203566-6146553?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130\">Amazon feedback site for Volume 3<\/a> that I believe WB will strike a better balance between the extremely popular shorts and the rarer shorts to satisfy a larger portion of the audience.  We'll probably see shorts like <em>Ali Baba Bunny<\/em>, <em>Bedevilled Rabbit<\/em>, <em>Operation Rabbit<\/em>, <em>Often An Orphan<\/em>, <em>Knighty Knight Bugs<\/em>, and hopefully plenty of Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales and Yosemite Sam (characters that have been largely neglected thus far).<\/p>\n<p>However, I think we'll still a healthy dose of Black & White cartoons (and there are quite a few!).  These shorts are usually more interesting to animation fans because they show how the animation studio evolved.  The older cartoons also contains some of the politically incorrect gags (for instance, involving <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackface\">blackface<\/a> or World War II), so I think we'll still have an introduction on the DVDs by Whoopi Goldberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looneytunes.com\" title=\"LooneyTunes.com\">LooneyTunes.com<\/a> has some classic cartoons available right now for <a href=\"http:\/\/looneytunes.warnerbros.com\/web\/toons\/toons.jsp?nlID=looneytunes121505&linkname=toons2\" title=\"Watch Some Looney Tunes Cartoons Online For Free\">free viewing online<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.goldenagecartoons.com\/showthread.php?t=5134#post43325\">rumor has it<\/a> that at least some of these shorts will be on the next collection to be released near the end of 2006.  Watch this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/shownews.cfm?ShowID=1152\">TV Shows On DVD<\/a> page for further details - we should be hearing something \"leaked\" by the studio in July.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/yahooads.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ypn-js.overture.com\/partner\/js\/ypn.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s right around this time every year that I start to get excited about the upcoming Looney Tunes release, and this year is no exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}