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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LOONEY TUNES
EAN: 0085391121725
Format: Animated, Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Running Time: 417 minutes
Sales Rank: 3080
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1935
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Amazon.com:
The fifth collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies continues Warner Bros.' scattershot approach, mixing classics and obscurities. Among the best-known and funniest cartoons are 'Ali Baba Bunny' (Daffy yelling, 'I'm rich! I'm socially secure!'), 'Bewitched Bunny' (Witch Hazel galloping off in a cloud of hair pins), and 'Buccaneer Bunny' (a sterling example of one of director Friz Freleng's favorite gags: having the characters run up and down stairs and in and out of various doors). 'Gold Diggers of '49' and 'Little Red Walking Hood' show Tex Avery beginning to explore the self-reflexive gags that would be become one of the hallmarks of his mature style. In 'Walking Hood,' Grandma stops the action to answer the phone and place her order with the grocer--including a case of gin. 'The Daffy Doc' is Bob Clampett at his most surreal, with Daffy and Porky getting sucked into an iron lung, bulging and shrinking like balloon animals. Some of the earliest cartoons predate the adoption of 'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down' as the theme song for the Warner Bros. cartoons. Many shorts from the early '30s were built around songs from Warner's musicals: 'I've Got to Sing a Torch Song' (written for Gold Diggers of 1933) features caricatures of Mae West, George Bernard Shaw, Benito Mussolini, and Bing Crosby frolicking to the title tune. Greta Garbo delivers the closing, 'That's All, Folks!' Like the previous four sets, Golden Collection Volume 5 comes loaded with extras that range from three WWII films in which Mr. Hook urges sailors to buy war bonds to 'Extremes and In-Betweens: A Life in Animation' (2000), a documentary about Oscar-winning director Chuck Jones. Many of these cartoons will have viewers of all ages in stitches. (Unrated, suitable for ages 6 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, mild risqué humor, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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Genre: Children's Video
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Give us more of the 30's and 40's!
In contrast with some of the other reviewers for this set I LOVE the older cartoons! "A Tale of Two Kitties" is one of my favorites and one that I had been waiting for. Tweety's original appearance and his somewhat sadistic personality are absolutely terrific. "Whadya know. I wan out of piddies." A great parody of Abbott and Costello! The Private Snafu and Mr. Hook shorts! The documentary on Chuck Jones. Beautiful living black and white shorts! Yay! "Eatin' on the Cuff." What a terrific little short! That Veronica Lake spider is not exactly politically correct but funny?! I really enjoyed "I've got to sing a Torch Song." Greta Garbo, Zazu Pitts, Mae West. It makes me want to see their movies. Next time more of the black and white Porkys! Buy one of these for yourself and one for your Dad and Mom too!(Maybe one for your grandparents as well!)
Rating:  - Warner Brothers Ripping Off Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Fans
I agree with others who have complained about Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five. While the first four volumes had some of the really old stuff, Volume Five is all but saturated with them.
It is not that the really old, black-and-white cartoons have no merit. In their time, they were surely exceptional, mainly because there was nothing else to compare them to. Think about it--in the early days of cartoon animation, making a non-living character appear to move on a screen was truly remarkable. BUT the executives at Warner Brothers know very well that to most of us, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons mean the full colour cartoons of the 1950's and 1960's that were part of our weekly Saturday viewings as kids. Those are the cartoons that most of us want to see. Almost all of the very old stuff (from the 1930's and even 1940's) is just not entertaining compared to that produced in the 1950's and 1960's.
As other people have speculated, this is a sleazy attempt by Warner Brothers executives to soak us by selling a set of 60 cartoons, when only about 25 of them have any significant appeal. It is really disingenuous for WB to have full colour artwork adorning the Volume Five box, when most of the cartoons are black and white. Also, what about the other characters? Where are Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Coyote & Road Runner, and so on? Not in this set.
Unless WB stops this nonsense, I will not be buying Volume Six.
Rating: - this one is alright, but..........
this is alright, but if they were smart, they would have organized each character into their own dvd sets. first off, they needed to put the other two abbott and costello parody cartoons on with the one they amazingly did add on this set! secondly, they keep ignoring foghorn leghorn, volume 6 better have a whole dvd with a good 20 of those. but these volumes are sloppy, i dont want some 30 year old morons personal favorite picks just because that screwball works at WB, they should come out with ALL bugs bunny in one dvd set, ALL foghorn leghorn in another, ALL hollywood parody in another... all racial/war ones in another... all in nice slipcase dvd sets, organized, so you dont get over half cartoons, cheesy weird BORING ones from the 30s....
Rating: - Raving for classic cartoons.
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 is packed with lots of great classic cartoons that were made from a different era. This collection is equally great as the previous four volumes. At a time when standards were different, animators were free of making these fun likable animated shorts that were made from the depression era to the baby boomer era. These cartoons are completely uncut, just the way they were released at the movies. They're digitcally remastered so you can hear great sound and see a great clear picture. This collection has bonuses including interviews with animators, writers and producers behind the cartoon shorts. Plus clips from the classic "Bugs Bunny" TV shows from the early 1960's, with classic commercials too! Plus more exciting features!
Keep in mind this is a collection designed for adult fans who grew up with these shorts on weekday afternoon and Saturday morning TV. Some other shorts in this collection were not shown on TV due to the fact they had certain racial dialogue and some slapstick (or violent) scenes that would not be appropriate for children nor appropriate for cartoons produced today.
It's good the people of Warner Bros. Studios are helping to preserve history so it's not lost forever even for some of those controversial cartoons. Otherwise, most people would say they never existed.
There are over a thousand cartoons made at Warner Bros., so there's a good chance this series is going to continue for a long time. Just wait until Volume ... Read More
Rating:  - and the Theme of this set is (drumroll please)
Old and Boring. 'nuff said.
We really enjoyed the first four collections, but this one felt like Warner was intentionally trying to rip off consumers. They could have tried to include a few funny ones on discs 3 and 4. The first two discs were just kinda funny, but, for the price, not worth our time. Next time I'll believe other negative reviews and pass, if I see the word old or boring.
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