Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 is the first volume of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection. It is a three-disc Blu-ray set that features fifty cartoons. Among the bonus features is the 1968 cartoon "The Door", released for the first time on any format. It was first released 15 November 2011 on Blu-ray.

A DVD version of the box set was released 3 July 2012, minus the third disc. There is also a limited edition Blu-ray with a larger-sized box, with the same normal Blu-ray digibook, plus a litho cel, a collectible tin, and a shot glass.

Disc 1[]

1.  "Hare Tonic"
2.  "Baseball Bugs"
3.  "Buccaneer Bunny"
4.  "The Old Grey Hare"
5.  "Rabbit Hood" 
6.  "8 Ball Bunny" 
7.  "Rabbit of Seville"  (low pitch audio)
8.  "What's Opera, Doc?" 
9.  "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
10.  "A Pest in the House"
11.  "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" 
12.  "Duck Amuck"
13.  "Robin Hood Daffy"
14.  "Baby Bottleneck" 
15.  "Kitty Kornered"
16.  "Scaredy Cat" 
17.  "Porky Chops"
18.  "Old Glory" 
19.  "A Tale of Two Kitties"  
20.  "Tweetie Pie"  
21.  "Fast and Furry-ous"  (DVNR)
22.  "Beep, Beep" 
23.  "Lovelorn Leghorn" 
24.  "For Scent-imental Reasons"  
25.  "Speedy Gonzales" 

Special Features[]

• Behind the Tunes
  • Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of What's Opera, Doc?
  • Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott
  • Powerhouse in Pictures
  • Putty Problems and Canary Rows
  • A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
  • The Charm of Stink: On the Scent of Pepé Le Pew
• Alternate Audio Tracks
  • Audio commentaries
    • Eric Goldberg on "Baseball Bugs", "Buccaneer Bunny", "Rabbit Hood", "Rabbit of Seville", "Robin Hood Daffy", "Scaredy Cat"
    • Greg Ford on "The Old Grey Hare"
    • Jerry Beck on "8 Ball Bunny", "Speedy Gonzales"
    • Archive audio interview of Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese on "What's Opera Doc?"
    • Daniel Goldmark on "What's Opera Doc?"
    • John Kricfalusi (with archive audio of Bob Clampett) on "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
    • Paul Dini on "A Pest in the House"
    • Michael Barrier and Mel Blanc on "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"
    • Michael Barrier (with archive audio of Chuck Jones) on "Duck Amuck"
    • Michael Barrier (with archive audio of Bob Clampett) on "Baby Bottleneck", "A Tale of Two Kitties"
    • Michael Barrier on "Kitty Kornered", "Beep, Beep"
    • Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on "Old Glory"
    • Greg Ford (with archive audio of Friz Freleng) on "Tweetie Pie"
    • Michael Barrier (with archive audio of Michael Maltese and Treg Brown) on "Fast and Furry-ous"
    • Michael Barrier (with archive audio of Michael Maltese) on "For Scent-imental Reasons"
  • Music and Vocal-Only Tracks
    • Music-only tracks include: "What's Opera Doc?", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", "Duck Amuck", "Robin Hood Daffy", "Speedy Gonzales"
    • Vocal-only tracks include: "What's Opera Doc?"

Disc 2[]

1.  "One Froggy Evening" 
2.  "Three Little Bops"
3.  "I Love to Singa" 
4.  "Katnip Kollege" 
5.  "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall" 
6.  "Chow Hound" 
7.  "Haredevil Hare"
8.  "The Hasty Hare"
9.  "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"
10.  "Hare-Way to the Stars" 
11.  "Mad as a Mars Hare"
12.  "Devil May Hare"
13.  "Bedevilled Rabbit"
14.  "Ducking the Devil"
15.  "Bill of Hare"
16.  "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"
17.  "Bewitched Bunny"
18.  "Broom-Stick Bunny" 
19.  "A Witch's Tangled Hare"
20.  "A-Haunting We Will Go"
21.  "Feed the Kitty" 
22.  "Kiss Me Cat"
23.  "Feline Frame-Up"
24.  "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z"  
25.  "Boyhood Daze"

Special Features[]

• Behind the Tunes
  • It Hopped One Night: The Story Behind One Froggy Evening
  • Wacky Warner One-Shots
  • Mars Attacks! Life on the Red Planet with My Favorite Martian (provided in HD)
  • Razzma-Taz: Giving the Tasmanian Devil His Due (provided in HD)
  • The Ralph Phillips Story: Living the American Daydream (provided in HD)
• Alternate Audio Tracks
  • Audio commentaries
    • Michael Barrier, Corny Cole, Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese on "One Froggy Evening"
    • Jerry Beck and Stan Freberg on "The Three Little Bops"
    • Eric Goldberg on "I Love to Singa", "Chow Hound", "Bewitched Bunny", "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z", "Boyhood Daze"
    • Michael Barrier, John McGrew, Paul Julian and Gene Fleury on "The Dover Boys at Pimento University"
    • Michael Barrier and Pete Alvarado on "Haredevil Hare"
    • Michael Barrier and Maurice Noble on "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"
    • Jerry Beck on "Devil May Hare"
    • June Foray on "Broom-Stick Bunny"
    • Greg Ford on "Feed the Kitty"
    • Amid Amidi on "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z"
  • Music and Vocal-Only Tracks
    • Music-only tracks include: "One Froggy Evening", "The Three Little Bops", "Hare-Way to the Stars", "Ducking the Devil", "A Witch's Tangled Hare", "Feed the Kitty" and "Boyhood Daze"
    • Music-and-effects tracks include: "Bewitched Bunny", "Broom-Stick Bunny" and "Feline Frame-Up"
    • Vocal-only tracks include: "The Three Little Bops"

Disc 3: Bonus Materials (Blu-ray only)[]

• A Greeting from Chuck Jones
• Chuck Amuck: The Movie
• Chuck Jones Extremes & Inbetweens
• Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood
• The Animated World of Chuck Jones
  1. "Point Rationing of Foods"  (unrestored)
  2. "Hell-Bent for Election"
  3. "So Much for So Little"  
  4. "Orange Blossoms for Violet"
  5. "A Hitch in Time" 
  6. "90 Day Wondering" 
  7. "Drafty, Isn't It?"  (unrestored)
  8. "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics"
  9. "The Bear That Wasn't"
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Pencil Test
• "The Door"
• Bonus cartoons
  1.  "Fright Before Christmas" (unrestored)
  2.  "Spaced Out Bunny" (unrestored)
  3.  "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century" (unrestored; cut version)
  4.  "Another Froggy Evening" (unrestored)
  5.  "Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension" (unrestored)
  6.  "Superior Duck" (cut version)
  7.  "From Hare to Eternity" (1998 dubbed print)
  8.  "Father of the Bird" (unrestored)
  9.  "Museum Scream"

Gallery[]

DVD Cover

Limited Edition

Back cover, without slip

Back cover, with slip

Controversy[]

Despite most of the newer restorations of Looney Tunes cartoons on this Blu-ray/DVD releases correcting the problem of DVNR (Digital Video Noise Reduction) which earlier restorations from the late-1990s/early-2000s had, a handful of cartoons on this Blu-ray/DVD set had heavy use of digital video noise reduction applied to them, which unintentionally erases or blurs some of the picture on certain scenes of the cartoons even more so than previous restorations, which has caused controversy among some Looney Tunes fans.^[1]

Among these affected shorts in the newer re-restorations on this Blu-ray/DVD set include "Fast and Furry-Ous", "Long-Haired Hare" and "Tortoise Wins By A Hare", all of which, coincidentally, were originally first restored for Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 DVD release back in 2003.^[2] The most recent Blu-ray collections, however, largely abandoned such noise reduction.^[3]

Notes[]

• The trailer for this volume features clips from many shorts, but of these, only "Boyhood Daze" and "Chow Hound" are in this set. A note at the end says "Not all of the Looney Tunes shorts shown in this trailer are included in the Platinum Collection".
• The Blu-ray release of this set is out of print and goes for around $60-$70 on online auction sites such as eBay.
• The German release omits the second and third discs.

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