Looney Tunes DVD Box 2 Coming Nov. 2nd

Jerry B. is a nice guy - he tends to answer pretty quickly if you send him a question...

 

I dunno, the Internet seems to bring out the best in some, years ago, it would've been an iffy chance of getting a response...Life is grand in the digital age...

 

Future Shop has it on sale this weekend for $48.99 CDN. That is about 5 cents more than the above U.S. Costco price.
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I thought that Jerry Beck over the years had assisted Warner Brothers in finding all of the original cartoon titles. The first DVD I put in, was Disc 4. Right off the bat I notice that "Have You Got Any Castles" opens with the generic Blue Ribbon title.

Very nice to see the original title/credits restored to "I Love To Singa".

 

I pre-ordered my from Columbia House about a month ago, and paid $38.95 plus tax, with free shipping. I got it last Monday, about a week after it arrived in the stores.

 

I noticed a lot of the Tweety cartoons open with what appears to be a generic Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon title, as there is always a jump cut to the title card.


Also, the commentator on the "Book Revue" track mis-identifes big band trombonist Tommy Dorsey as Glenn Miller.

 

Well, email certainly speeds up the process (and no writing letters/stamps/envelopes) - JB is a good sport...

 

Well, I broke down & joined Big Brother in ownership of the new package. Mighty fine viewing indeed. A must have if you don't already.

 

Film historian Michael Barrier does identify the trombonist in "Book Revue" as Glenn Miller. The Jerry Beck & Will Friedwald book Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, page 154, identifies the caricature as Tommy Dorsey.

"A jam session ensues with Brass (Tommy Dorsey)..."

It's probably Dorsey. However when you look at photos side by side, for me at least, since I wasn't around in those days, these two musicians had a similar look. And they both played the trombone.

On the left Tommy Dorsey. On the right Glenn Miller.

 

Spent a couple of relaxing hours today viewing Disc 4. Am really enjoying the suplimentary material, particularly the commentaries from Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier and Greg Ford.

 

And I've got a 5-year-old imitating an Ewok every few minutes.

 

It is Dorsey. Glenn Miller was killed in a plane crash in December 1944 and I doubt they would have drawn a caricature of a recently deceased person.

 

Okay, I was just posed a question about the voice of Little Red Riding Hood in "Little Red Riding Rabbit". I figger someone here will be able to answer this question.

 

I believe it was Bea Benaderet. She did most of the female voices in the years before June Foray took over.

 

Thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhanks a lot. In June Foray's commentary on the DVD, she mentioned the name, but it went by so fast I didn't catch it.

 

Bea Benaderet also was the original voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones, and you may remember her as Kate Bradley on Petticoat Junction.