Best of WB 100th: The Looney Tunes Complete Platinum Collection (V1-3) (DVD)

Looney Tunes
Uncensored and 6 discs total for 21 hours of Looney Tunes. Great collection! Highly recommend!

Looney Tunes
I love this collection. I grew up watching these cartoons. If you’re a fan of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, etc., you won’t be disappointed.

What is exactly as advertised
Arrived promptly

Still funny after all these years!
Liked the cartoon listing. Very helpful when wanting to watch those “Special” cartoons.

Tiene todos los cortos animados de la WB, en su mejor época. Solo que no revisé bien la descripción y compré la que no trae doblaje español.

This is a great set of innocent fun for kids. There is a very a long reminder from the beginning that people were different, attitudes, acceptance of all, racism and all the old guards’ trained disdain for fellow human were not politically the same.Kids can be taught that people are getting better at sharing the world and that these critters simply did their best with those around them.Elmer Fudd was never kind or decent, but his antics and attitude made him ridiculously funny, and they still do.

These 150 animated shorts certainly pack an entertainment punch like no other cartoons ever.The 40s and 50 were WB’s cartoon’s golden years,and here we get a good look at why.Of course included are some shorts from the 30s and the 60s(WB’s cartoon division started in /29!).Once the 60s hit you could see the change sink in as the old guard had retired or moved on to other projects(Bob Clampett’s “Beanie and Cecil” for one)and the one’s who took over just didn’t have what they had had before in ideas and execution.The edge was slowly lost and their cartoons became too mainstream;more Disney-like than what they originally had been.Besides that other studios had slowly been picking up steam and WB cartoons weren’t the only toons on the playing field.You had the Walter Lantz’s(Woody Woodpecker),the aforementioned Beanie and Cecil,the Mister Magoo’s,the Deputy Dawgs,the Felix the Cat’s and especially the one studio that became the absolute king of the toons in the 60s,Hanna-Barbera.Remember they created the first prime time cartoon show loved and watched by both kids and adults alike-The Flintstones.WB’s in /55 sold into syndication a portion of their cartoon output to television.They were instant successes and as demand rose so did Warner’s selling of shorts.As soon as the shorts ran their time in theaters they were almost immediately sold to TV.Like many comedians of years gone by the cartoons introduced themselves into the hearts and minds of a whole new generation.Let’s first get the cons out of the way(I won’t bore you with a disc by disc run down,but instead just use some examples from Disc One).By comparing the shorts against each other(i.e previous releases) I can see little has changed in so far as the aspect ratio is concerned.To go into syndication originally, prints had to be made and from what I can see some were either printed too close and/or the aspect ratio was 1:37:1 thus causing picture cropping to occur,usually noticeable at the bottom(yes,I believe these are the original syndication prints used,not newly printed from the original negatives).So if you notice any cropping effects on either top,bottom or on either side,you’ll know the problem.For example In Scaredy Cat,the date,usually quite visible at the bottom,is barely visible.In Fats and Furry-ous when the Road Runner and Wilee Coyote’s names come up in “latin”,they also are slightly cut at the bottom.Another issue is with the editing of prints.One stand out is Baby Bottleneck.The cartoon itself involves a shortage of storks to deliver babies, so all sorts of animals are used to fill in with all sorts of mix ups taking place.In one instance a hog gets a baby alligator by mistake.Wanting to feed together with two other baby piglets,the baby alligator clears a path and just as it is about to dive under the mother stops it.Just as she’s about to say something to it there is an obvious jump cut and on to the next animal.What she said or why it was cut,we may never know.It kind of gives a lie to that double speak Warner’s still give’s us at the start about some things not being appropriate yet to not show them would to deny…..well,you know,blah,blah,blah.Looks like someone is still using the cutting knife anyways,so we cannot say they are all presented in their original theatrical presentation,can we?The pros.Even with using the original syndicated prints these shorts are remarkably clean and clear.Grain and small imperfections remain from short to short but overall they look and sound great.As I stated before, the 40s and 50s were the golden era,cartoon wise,from Warner’s.The mid 60s onwards took their toll and they have never been what they were,despite how many incarnations and resurrections Warner’s had tried over the years with their toon stable.In the 60s shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle and Roger Ramjet took Warner’s edge and ran with it…at least for a delightful while.By the 70s cartoons as a whole,as we once knew them,were gone.In fact TV as a whole was rapidly changing as alot of the old shows were surreptitiously being cancelled.We’d like things to keep going as they are but that’s not possible.Life doesn’t work that way.However that’s why releases like this are pure gold.They take us back to when we were young tykes,sitting in front of our old black and white sets hoping it was a good day for reception and watching and howling at the antics of Bugs,Sylvester and Daffy.The older i get the more of a blessing I find it was being alive during those years and enjoying TV that has long since passed us by.When creativity reigned supreme,toons or otherwise.There were a lot of thorns among the roses to be sure,but the Warner Brothers cartoons were roses to be held,cherished and remembered.And we do,and still can appreciate what wonderful work went into their making even today.God bless all those men and women who made a young child’s day just a little bit better.