Looney Tunes on DVD

Sunday, July 20, 2003

Finally, after years of collecting DVDs, I can finally get my hands on another one of my “DVD Holy Grails”.  On October 28th, Warner Brothers is set to release *The Looney Tunes Golden Collection*, a 4-disc set containing 56 classic shorts.

Understandably, the shorts are not being released chronologically, but thematically.  This set in particular is more of a “best of” collection than anything else.

According the list of shorts, there seems to be a good selection of what are surely people’s favourites, but with only 56 out of over 1000 shorts that Warner produced from 1930 to 1960, I’m bound to be disappointed that some of my favourites aren’t included—namely _Rabbit Hood_ and _Duck! Rabbit! Duck!_ (especially frustrating since Chuck Jones’ other two installments of his “hunting season trilogy” _Rabbit Fire_ and _Rabbit Seasoning_ are included on the set, and chronologically out of order for that matter).  I hope that’s just a sign that we can expect more Looney Tunes DVDs in the future.

Hopefully Warner Brothers will take note of how Disney has been presenting its classic shorts with their _Walt Disney Treasures_ sets and continue to release more sets of what are the best and funniest animated shorts ever produced.

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