Looney Tooney DVD's

Grabbed the 4 disc Looney Tooneys dvd's at Best Buy on the way home from work; quick watch of the Bugs Bunny disc looks promising - vivid reds and greens (the red background on the Blue Ribbon titles is REALLY RED). They aren't scraped spotlessly clean like Snow White was. Sounds like the highs were filtered/denoised - punching in the treble control on my Adcom preamp and jiggling the knob revealed the highs to be nonexistant on The Rabbit of Seville. Gotta go watch some more!

 

Cool, I was just going to post a request for some reviews. I was briefly in Wal-Mart today, where the price was $42 and change, but I didn't pull the trigger as I was in a rush and the lines were looooonnnnggggg.

 

I just picked mine up. Going to crack it open now!

 

Ummm..how do I get this to play in widescreen?

Is there widescreen?

 

I believe they should all be 1:33.

 

Circuit City had it on sale at $49. Retail is $59. How's the rest of the retail world looking?

 

Media Play is $49 too.

Best Buy was $54.

Tower was $112. Just kidding.

 

They look great. I watched several cartoons now and scanned through the discs somewhat. The only few that look not-so-good are the first couple on the Bugs DVD. They are overly sharpened. Other than that they look great. Very nice job. Nice selection too.

 

I price matched at Best Buy w/ Target's $ 45.99 price.

Why isn't this is in widescreen? These were in the movie theatres 50 years ago on a WIDESCREEN. I don't get it!

 

I let others speak more knowdgle then me, but very few WB cartoons were in widescreen.

 

If they were shown as widescreen you'd actually be cutting off a lot of picture on the top and bottom. They were filmed in 1.33:1 (full screen).

 

Now let's get going on the Tex Avery MGM shorts!

 

OH! Thanks for clearing that up.

 

MGM still haven't released the Ted healy/3 Stooges shorts from MGM! Their vaults are locked up. It's a shame.

 

Speaking of Tex.. There is an interesting post on animationblast.com that follows:

French Enjoy The Real Tex Avery. While in the United States, our DVD releases consist of crappy DIC cartoons which bastardize Tex Avery's name (see yesterday's news), cartoon aficionados in France are getting a five-DVD set in December of Tex Avery's MGM cartoons. The only oddity with their release (and this is assuming the French website's listing is correct) is that the DVDs have all of Tex's MGM output from 1942-1955 except for the final three cartoons he directed there, but they also include three of the four cartoons he directed immediately afterwards at Walter Lantz Studios (I'M COLD, CRAZY MIXED-UP PUP and THE LEGEND OF ROCKABYE POINT). The set also includes a 2-hour documentary by French animation scholar Patrick Brion. If I actually owned a DVD player, this is one set I wouldn't hesitate to buy.

There is a link that goes to the french site-
http://www.dvdnet-fr.com/lire-news-dvd-564.html



Thats just about worth getting an allregion player for...

 

Whooooooooooooooo - the bonus material is really good, folks - buy this thang NOW!!!!

 

Be patient - that French set is from the Laserdisc transfers - the real deal ala the Looney Toons set has been hinted as being in the works by a friendly animation historian - he can't spill the beans, but Tom and Jerry are a definite event next year, and Tex will most likely get the same treatment...

 

Awesome news.... love live Tex!

 

My Wal Mart has it for $38.97. That's as low as I've seen it.

 

Beautiful, just beautiful!

And that's just from seeing about 2/3 of the first disc, and a few of the extras.

Can't wait to stretch out with this one over the weekend.

 

Are any of the cartoons edited (censored)?

 

The packaging says Uncut. So far it looks like they have been left alone.