Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2
| Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 | |
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DVD-cover
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| Directed by | Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett, Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin and Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton |
| Starring | Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester, Tweety, Mel Blanc (voice) |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Release date
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November 2, 2004 (United States) |
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Running time
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432 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 2, 2004. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.
As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Region 4:
In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2.
(*): Public domain cartoon.
(**): The original opening and ending title sequences have been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(***): Original flag cue restored
(#): Original ending title card has been restored, replacing the Merrie Melodies 1959-1960 season ending title card.
(*): The original opening and ending title sequences have been restored for this release, replacing the Blue Ribbon reissue titles.
(**): Footage featuring a caricature of Alexander Woollcott, cut from the Blue Ribbon reissue after Woollcott died, has been restored for this release.
(***): Combines live-action with animation.
(****): Original opening and credits restored, as the original closing was kept in the reissue.
(#): Public domain cartoon.
Although all cartoons on The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 are presented uncut, a handful of cartoons in this DVD set feature digital video noise reduction (or DVNR) applied artifacting: the noise reduction process unintentionally erases or blurs some of the scenes in the cartoons. This process has upset consumers and animation collectors; subsequent Looney Tunes DVDs lack such artifacting. Cartoons in the collection that have been afflicted with DVNR are Bob Clampett's The Big Snooze, Frank Tashlin's Have You Got Any Castles?, and Robert McKimson's Gorilla My Dreams.
Also controversial is the inclusion of interlaced copies of a handful of cartoons, most of which are present on the DVD in progressive scan. Many have raised concern over the process and have insisted that Warner Home Video encode the cartoons onto DVD in progressive scan only. The interlaced cartoons on this collection are Bob Clampett's A Corny Concerto and Book Revue, Tex Avery's I Love to Singa and Hollywood Steps Out, and Frank Tashlin's Have You Got Any Castles?. No interlacing is used for the cartoon shorts (but appears in the special features) in the PAL version of the collection. In 2007 Warner Home Video began a replacement disc program whereby consumers could replace their interlaced discs with new progressive scan ones.
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