Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3
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Directed by	Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Robert McKimson Bob Clampett Frank Tashlin Tex Avery Arthur Davis Cal Dalton Ben Hardaway Jack King Maurice Noble Hawley Pratt
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger Eddie Selzer John W. Burton David H. DePatie
Starring	voice of Mel Blanc
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date	October 25, 2005 (2005-10-25)
Running time	442 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 is a DVD box set from Warner Home Video that was released on October 25, 2005.^[1] It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, nine documentaries, 32 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 11 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 11 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.

Volume 3 is the first in the series to have a disclaimer on the box art stating that the set "is intended for the adult collector" and may not be suitable for younger audiences. It is also the first to feature a warning, given by Whoopi Goldberg, a fan of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters, who tells the viewers that some of the cartoons on the set contain content that is politically incorrect by today's standards, but will be shown uncut for historical reasons, because "removing these inexcusable images and jokes from this collection would be the same as saying [these prejudices] never existed". Future volumes also contain this warning, which is presented instead as a title card before the main menu.

As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:

• Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3^[2]
• Disc 2: not released
• Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2^[3]
• Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4^[4]

These single-disc versions have changed package of contents, as well as excluding all bonus features.

• Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3 includes the short Super-Rabbit from Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 replacing shorts Rebel Rabbit and Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
• Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 includes the shorts Hollywood Capers and The Film Fan from Disc 2 replacing shorts Porky's Romance, Porky's Party and Porky in Egypt
• Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 includes the shorts The CooCoo Nut Grove, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, The Honey-Mousers and The Last Hungry Cat from Disc 2 replacing shorts Super-Rabbit, Daffy Duck and Egghead, A Gruesome Twosome, An Itch in Time and Gonzales' Tamales

In the UK (Region 2), the set was released unchanged in 2006.

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.

• Music-and-effects-only audio tracks on Duck! Rabbit, Duck! and Hillbilly Hare
• Audio commentary
  • Jerry Beck and Martha Sigal on The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
  • Michael Barrier on Bowery Bugs and Hillbilly Hare
  • Greg Ford on Case of the Missing Hare
  • Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Wackiki Wabbit
  • Eric Goldberg on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

• Chuck Amuck: 1991 Documentary
• The Bugs Bunny Show: The Honey-Mousers bridging sequences; Ball Point Puns audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc

• A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy: A look at the creation, comedy, and cultural influence of "The Hunter's Trilogy", three cartoons ("Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", and "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!") in which Daffy sets up Bugs to be shot by Elmer and the two argue over what hunting season it is (only for Daffy to get shot every time).

• Music-only audio track on Wideo Wabbit and The Honey-Mousers
• Music-and-effects-only audio track on The Last Hungry Cat
• Audio commentaries
  • Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on Hollywood Capers
  • Michael Barrier on The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
  • Greg Ford on She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, Thugs with Dirty Mugs, and The Mouse That Jack Built with pre-score music
  • Daniel Goldmark on Swooner Crooner
  • June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Honey-Mousers

• What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 1 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts:
  • A Wild Hare (1940) (unrestored, but with recreated titles)
  • The Heckling Hare (1941)
  • The Big Snooze (1946)
• Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)
• It's Got Me Again! (1932)

• Fine Tooning: Restoring the Warner Bros. Cartoons: A look at how the Warner Bros. cartoons are digitally restored for the Golden Collection DVD sets.
• Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White: A look at the very early Warner Bros. shorts, which either starred Bosko, Buddy, or were thinly-plotted animated music videos based on music from Warner Bros. music library at the time.

• Music-only audio tracks on Robin Hood Daffy, Rocket Squad
• Music-and-effects-only audio track on The Windblown Hare, Claws for Alarm
• Audio commentaries
  • Jerry Beck on I Haven't Got a Hat
  • Mark Kausler on Porky's Romance
  • Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Porky's Party, Claws for Alarm
  • Daniel Goldmark on Pigs in a Polka
  • Joe Dante on Porky Pig's Feat
  • Eric Goldberg on Robin Hood Daffy
  • Paul Dini on Rocket Squad

• What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 2 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts:
  • Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
  • Hare Trigger (1945) (unrestored)
• The Bear That Wasn't (1967; MGM cartoon directed by Chuck Jones),
• Point Rationing of Foods (1943)
• Porky's Party Storyboard Reel

• Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank Tashlin: A look at the life and animated work of director Frank Tashlin.

• Music-only audio tracks on Gonzales' Tamales and Birds Anonymous
• Audio commentaries
  • Paul Dini on Super-Rabbit
  • John Kricfalusi on A Gruesome Twosome
  • Milton Gray on A Gruesome Twosome
  • Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Draftee Daffy
  • John Kricfalusi and Bill Melendez on Falling Hare and An Itch in Time
  • Jerry Beck and Art Leonardi on Birds Anonymous and Gonzales' Tamales
  • Greg Ford on No Barking and To Beep or Not to Beep
  • Michael Barrier on Odor-able Kitty and Walky Talky Hawky

• Private Snafu cartoons: Spies (1943), Rumors (1943), Snafuperman (1944)
• Falling Hare Storyboard Reel
• TV pilot: Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (1963)^[6] - with optional commentary by Jerry Beck and Art Leonardi

• The Charm of Stink: On the Scent of Pepé Le Pew: A look at Chuck Jones' amorous skunk character, Pepe Le Pew
• Looney Tunes Go to War!: A look at the outrageous (and often offensive) cartoons released by Warner Bros. studios during World War II.
• Strictly for the Birds: Tweety and Sylvester's Award-Winning Teamup: A look at how Sylvester and Tweety's pairing led to Friz Freleng winning the Oscar for the 1957 short Birds Anonymous.

In The New York Sun, author and critic Gary Giddins had complained that Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 were lacking in black-and-white shorts and seemed to avoid the more politically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book, Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books, Giddins noted that Volume 3 made up for its forerunners' shortcomings by including some of the racial caricatures of the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.^[7]

• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present and miscellaneous)

• Aminian, Rod (2007-03-09). "Looney Tunes DVDs are 'collector's gold'". The Gonzaga Bulletin. Spokane, Washington: Gonzaga University. p. WE34. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20.
• "Warner Home Video Delivers a Triple Threat of Classic Animation; Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Three, Looney Tunes Movie Collection, Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 2 Available for the First Time on DVD October 25, 2005". Business Wire. 2005-10-19.