The Golden Age of Looney Tunes

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes is a collection of LaserDiscs released by MGM/UA Home Video in the 1990s. There were five sets made, featuring a number of discs, and each disc side represented a different theme, being made up of seven cartoons per side. The first volume was also released on VHS, with each tape representing one disc side.
Like many other "Looney Tunes" home video releases by MGM/UA, this set uses faded 16 mm Associated Artists Productions television prints as MGM/UA and Turner Entertainment, owners of the rights to the shorts, then had no access to Warner Bros.' negatives.
With the exception of the "Censored Eleven" shorts, every "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" short in the Turner library was released in this collection.
Volume 1.
The first volume of the set, "The Golden Age of Looney Tunes" was released on December 11, 1991 on laserdisc. Due to potentially offensive material in the cartoon "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips", later sets were released with that short replaced by "Racketeer Rabbit", which was also released on Volume 3. The first volume contains 70 animated shorts from 1931 through 1948 (1933–1948 on the cover). Each side of the first volume's discs contains animated shorts fitting a particular theme or category - this arrangement is used in all five volumes of "The Golden Age of Looney Tunes". Each side was also released on VHS as ten separate volumes
Volume 2.
"The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Vol. 2" was released on July 1, 1992 on laserdisc. The second volume contains 70 animated shorts from 1931 through 1948. The second volume's categories are as follows:
Volume 3.
"The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Vol. 3" was released on December 23, 1992 on laserdisc. The third volume contains 70 animated shorts from 1931 through 1948. The third volume's categories are as follows:
Volume 4.
"The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Vol. 4" was released on July 14, 1993 on laserdisc. The fourth volume contains 73 animated shorts from 1932 through 1948. The fourth volume's categories are as follows:
Volume 5.
"The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Vol. 5" was released on April 2, 1997 on laserdisc. The fifth volume contains 55 animated shorts from 1932 through 1949. The fifth volume came out over three and a half years after "The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Vol. 4" was released - by this point, Turner had been bought out by Time Warner. A majority of the shorts in this volume use the newer American 1995 Turner "dubbed" prints, except for Country Mouse and The Merry Old Soul, which have their original Associated Artists Productions prints. Side 8 does not have Turner prints.
The final box set in the series contains bonus material such as an alternate version of "Hare Ribbin"' and two live-action film segments with cameos by Bugs Bunny: "My Dream Is Yours" and "Two Guys from Texas". The set also includes three World War II-era cartoon shorts featuring the sailor Hook that were made specially for the U.S. Armed Forces. The shorts are "The Good Egg" (not to be confused with the regular Warner Bros. short with the same name), "The Return of Mr. Hook" and "Tokyo Woes". The fifth volume's categories are as follows:
Available shorts.
This is a listing of the shorts in the Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series (as well as a few non-"Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" shorts) available on "The Golden Age of Looney Tunes" set. See the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography for a more detailed list of all the shorts. All films before "Honeymoon Hotel" are in black-and-white. Unless otherwise noted, all other cartoons are in three-strip Technicolor.
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