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I Tawt I Taw ... More Looney Tunes! Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four, a Wealth of Animated Classics Available on DVD for the First Time November 14, 2006 from Warner Home Video.


BURBANK, Calif. -- Looney Tunes Golden Collection The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a yearly series of four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros.' home video unit Warner Home Video, each containing about 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts.  to Include 60 Unedited, Classic, Digitally Re-mastered, Animated Shorts and Loads of Special Features

On November 14, 2006 consumers will shout "Andale! Andale! Arriba ar·ri·ba  
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 retailer when Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980.  (WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy)
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) releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four. Following the tremendous success of the first three installments of the Golden and Spotlight Collections, WHV will expand their Looney Tunes library with the highly-anticipated fourth volumes of each series. Each collection is filled with loads of digitally re-mastered classic shorts presented completely unedited.

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four will retail for $64.92 and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four will retail for $26.99.

"The release of new Golden Collection volumes has become a highly-anticipated yearly event for Looney Tunes fans. We think consumers will be really pleased with the selection of shorts we have chosen for this volume. Viewers will find some of their favorites as well as some rarities," commented Dorinda Marticorena, WHV Vice President, Kids and Sports Marketing. She added, "Warner Bros. artists were brilliant in their creation of Looney Tunes because they have brought to life such enduring characters. More than half a century later, Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Porky Pig and the rest of the Looney Tunes family are as popular as ever."

That wascally wabbit wabbit - /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a  and the rest of the gang are back in an all-star collection encompassing The Looney Tunes characters' most memorable appearances. Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four will feature a four-disc collector set with 60 unedited classic, digitally re-mastered, animated shorts and will be packed with special features including commentaries, alternate audio programs, "Behind-the-Tunes" featurettes, rare shorts and more. Each disc in this set will be devoted to a theme or character and will feature 15 shorts.

Disc one focuses on everyone's favorite carrot-crunching hare, Bugs Bunny and includes such shorts as Roman Legion-Hare, Rabbit Hood and Sahara Hare. The disc also includes Knighty Knight Bugs Knighty Knight Bugs is a 1958 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Mel Blanc provided for the voices of all the characters in this cartoon. , a short in which a medieval Bugs Bunny traded blows with Yosemite Sam and his fire-breathing dragon. The cartoon won an Academy Award(R) for "Best Short Subject: Cartoons."

Disc two showcases the work of animator, screenwriter and director, Frank Tashlin whose trademark cartoons featured quick editing, wild and outrageous gags, and extremely odd angles. This disc contains The Case of the Stuttering stuttering or stammering, speech disorder marked by hesitation and inability to enunciate consonants without spasmodic repetition. Known technically as dysphemia, it has sometimes been attributed to an underlying personality disorder.  Pig, which features Petunia Pig, and also includes Little Pancho Vanilla, Little Beau Porky pork·y 1  
adj. pork·i·er, pork·i·est
1. Of or like pork: a porky flavor.

2. Slang Fat or corpulent.
, Porky in the North Woods and several others.

The third disc is devoted to "the fastest mouse in all Mexico," Speedy Gonzales and includes Cat-Tails for Two Cat-Tails for Two is a 1953 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Robert McKimson and written by Tedd Pierce. It was animated in 1952. Voices by Mel Blanc and music by Carl Stalling. It was the first appearance of Speedy Gonzales. , which features a skinnier Speedy with a sizeable gold front tooth. Disc three also includes Tabasco Road, Mexicali Shmoes and The Pied Piper of Guadalupe, all of which were nominated for Academy Awards(R).

Disc four is entirely devoted to the theme of cats and features such shorts as The Night Watchman WATCHMAN. An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it is to watch during the night and take care of the property of the inhabitants.
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, The Aristo-Cat and others. The Night Watchman is a Merrie Melodies cartoon that was the first short with Chuck Jones as director.
Exclusive bonus DVD features include:

Disc 1: Bugs Bunny Classics
-- Commentaries
-- Alternate Audio Programs:
-- Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott
-- Bugs Bunny Superstar Part 1 (1976 documentary)
-- Powerhouse in Pictures
-- Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 1/2 Minutes (1989 short)
-- The Bugs Bunny Show
-- Trailer Gallery

Disc 2: Frank Tashlin
-- Commentaries
-- Bugs Bunny Superstar Part 2 (1976 documentary)
-- Porky and Daffy in The William Tell Overture (2006 short)
-- Frank Tashlin's Storybooks
-- From the Vault

Disc 3: Speedy Gonzales
-- Commentaries
-- Alternate Audio Programs
-- Friz on Film (2006 Documentary)
-- From the Vault:

Disc 4: Cats
-- Commentaries
-- Alternate Audio Programs
-- Behind the Tunes (2006 documentary featurettes)
-- From the Vault


Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four will feature 28 of the best animated shorts pulled from Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Four. The set will include two discs starring an assortment of Looney Tunes' zaniest cartoon characters plus bonus features. The first disc, which is devoted to Bugs Bunny, features 14 shorts including Rabbit Hood, Operation: RABBIT, Barbary-Coast Bunny and others. The second disc, devoted to the topic of cats, showcases 14 shorts including Dough Ray Me-ow, Kiss Me Cat, Cat Feud and several others.
Exclusive bonus DVD features include:

-- Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
-- Trailers


For more information on this and other titles distributed by Warner Home Video, visit www.whvdirect.com.

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