Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol 6.

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I'd heard that Warner was going to discontinue the 'Golden Edition' collection of shorts, which is a real shame because getting to see all the old shorts in the original editing is awesome. Anyhow. I was quite surprised to see Volume 6 when we were at the store and I picked it up.

In a lot of ways, Volumes 5 and 6 have been my favorites so far. They have a lot of weird stuff that I've not seen as much or in some cases at all. Volume six has a lot of war era cartoons, and those are really neat but I've seen a lot of them on Toonheads. However, there's also a lot of Bosco and Foxy shorts that I haven't seen at all or have only seen once. Disk 3 gets even more creepy, moving from WWII into the post-war boom. It has several cartoons that I have to infliction on prickvixen because they are horrible Randian screeds done with beloved cartoon characters. They're absolutely appalling and half baked. They sound EXACTLY like where modern republicans seem to get their understanding of the economy.

And finally, there's disk 4. Disk 4 is, I suspect the 'The animators did a bunch of acid and then drew stuff' disk. It's GREAT! Oh man how I loved those weird-sounding WB intros and I confess that I do actually like the AP style. These really took me back to my childhood. Dark distant memories of strange barely familiar cartoons. This one in particular tickled ancient parts of my brain:

Meet Norman Normal. He's a lot like yooooooOOuuu! This cartoon is so awesome! Short of the one where Porky makes a cartoon, this is one of my favorite collections (despite the sometimes hard to watch racist and sexist overtones of parts)

Anyhow. I'd like to write a longer review but I'm going to be late for a date. Seriously though. At $40 (The cost of 4 movie tickets around here) this disk set totally worth a look.

Comments

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, #6 is reportedly the last one. I have yet to order my copy. I'm especially eager for "Much Ado About Nutting" on disc 4. Always loved that one.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Jerry Beck over at "Cartoon Brew" had a lot to do with the collections. Really amazing stuff. It's unfortunate that they're stopping at six, but at least they made sure to get out what I would call the core of WB's finest shorts.

The Randian ones you speak of were actually paid for by a right-wing think-tank to promote capitalism, and remain to this day some of the most bizarre works WB ever did. They rank up there with the various pro-socialist works put out by the Soviets during the same time period.

(I'm just happy they made sure to get the one with the squirrel and the coconut.)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

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Wow, those sixties cartoons are weird. The combination of the then-hip limited animation (and notice the really nice head turns here and there) with the attempts to have more adult humor look pretty strange to my eyes.