The Extras - 50 Cartoons: Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Vol. 3 Announce

Episode Date: July 13, 2026

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Hi, I'm film historian and author John Fricky. I've written books about Judy Garland and The Wizard of Oz movie, and you're listening to The Extras. Hello and welcome everyone to our highly anticipated Looney Tunes Collectors Vault Volume 3 announced podcast, and joining me are the two men we have to thank for these wonderful releases. George Feltonstein of the Warner Archive and animation historian Jerry Beck. Hello, gentlemen.

Hello, Timothy. We're here. More cartoons. I love it. Yes, more cartoons. And it just feels like it's been too long since George and I have had a chance to speak with you, Jerry, because it's been a few months since the last release. But this is an exciting day because you mentioned George that it was coming out,

but now we get to see what the cartoons are. There's 50 included in this Blu-ray releasing on September 8th. We'll go through that full list and talk about some of them during the podcast today. This is a third volume of the Vault series after four volumes of the collector series. So was there anything different about how you approached selecting the 25 cartoons on the first disc? I mean, there is a basic formula, which I have to state over and over again because it's so convoluted and confusing due to various extraneous situations. So I will explain again. The first disc is basically the equivalent of what would have been volume 7 of the collector's choice,

meaning remastered cartoons that had never been part of a Warner Brothers cartoon collection on DVD or Blu-ray. The second disc contains cartoons that had been on DVD. but had not been on Blu-ray in remastered form as part of a Warner Brothers cartoon collection. Right. So that I'm putting out all the specifics so people understand the guardrails and guidelines under which we're operating to put these sets together. Yeah, that's very important because otherwise you might question, well, why was this chosen

over that? And it's been a very specific way of going. about it, but you've done it pretty consistently now. So those who have purchased it, I think, should know by now those coming new to it. It's always good to, you know, relate again how you guys went about approaching this. Now, was there anything, since this is kind of number seven that you mentioned or the third of the vault series, was there anything where you went into it thinking there are certain characters we haven't touched on yet that we want to be sure that we do? Or was it just a matter of just, again, just kind of going through the vault and making sure that you get these out.

Well, we have a little bit more. And Jerry, you can, you can opine on this as well. We have a little bit more of a historical backbone here because we have the very first Looney Tunes cartoon sinking in the bathtub with Bosco. And then we also have Lady Player Mandolin, which is the very first Mary Melodies. cartoon. So there have been people who have been very vocal about wanting more from the black and white era. So to have a historical collection like this and not have basically landmark cartoon releases such as the two I just mentioned, this is a great opportunity to put that in, as no pun intended,

a bedrock for which we can build. And I'm very excited about this release because I think it is very, very diverse in terms of it goes from the 30s, the 40s to 50s to 60s. And a lot of characters are represented. And there's some great one shots. Happily, I can say that Jerry and I watched the test disc earlier this week to make sure everything was exactly as it's supposed to be. I did find there was one cartoon that didn't look as good as I thought it could, and I was delighted to find out my colleagues had caught the error and had already corrected it. You know, we've had some bumps before with the amount of releases we put out,

and with the constraints of our small staff, occasionally there are errors on releases. I'm not speaking about animation, just in general. So we're looking out to try to make sure there aren't any problems. This has already gone through the sniff test. And I think people are really going to enjoy this collection because it has many ones where you could say we knock it out of the park. Ever since we started the collector's choice series, George and myself,

we've been aiming for what we want, which is we want all the cartoons. We want all the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies from 1930 through 1969, and we inch by inch piece by piece, brick by brick, trying to make that happen. And as time has gone on, as these collections have gone on, we've been able to do more and dig deeper, you know, deeper cuts, as they say. And, yeah, we make sure to have the superstars. I think without looking, again, they're mainly on the second disc. But the first disc, we can go for things that are truly overlooked by, you know, the traditional

sets that are sold that used to be sold in supermarkets and, you know, in places like that. Now we're really, really focusing in towards, you know, restoring the entire library. And to do that, we look at more black and whites. We look at more cartoons without major stars. The best thing about it is that because this is a serious, aimed at the adult animation collector. It's not a babysitting tool for moms and kids. There are some cartoons that are perfectly appropriate to be a babysitter for moms and kids and also still be entertaining to adults.

But there are other cartoons that are more appropriately designed for the adult collector. And that's really what we're putting our emphasis on here. And that's why we have, you know, notification on the packaging so that people know exactly what they're getting. You know, it isn't like 15, 20 years ago where there were animation collections at big box retailers. It just doesn't happen anymore. So with ability to sell direct to consumer online, we can be very targeted with what, we're presenting. And that has opened the door for us to include several shorts that haven't been around for a while. So that's very exciting. Right now, we're blessed to be sitting here with Tim

and talking about a new two-disc collection with 50 cartoons for 2498 list price. It's like I've said, 50 cents a cartoon. Wow. And it's, I think, a very entertaining pattern. package. It is. If you wouldn't mind letting everybody know what the titles are, I think it would be terrific coming from your incredible mind for passion on these cartoons. All right. Well, I will do a reading. We're doing this unrehearsed, everybody. Yeah, yeah. This is just this is Disc 1. So we'll start. Disc 1. Now, we start off now, as everybody knows, these disks are in alphabetic order.

We found that really works pretty well in any way you're doing it, whether you're collecting, whether you're having them on in the background, at a party, whatever it is. The selection being so wildly all over the place really works. That's what I think. And so we've been lucking out that a lot of interesting ones end up first on the collection. And this is no exception. The very first one is one of those feeling miscellaneous musical Mary Melo. cartoons, Billboard Frolix, a great two-color cartoon, but what's especially important about it

and what's great about it being first on the set is that it's the cartoon that introduces merrily we roll along. That theme song of the merry melodies was first used in this cartoon. And it's a great historic way to open the film. And of course, it's got those billboard gags. I'm not going to describe every cartoon, so I better stop here. But we then follow that with another cartoon that I believe isn't two-colored, the country mouse, right, which is a jaw-dropping. What is it? Is it Cameron Egg? Yeah.

Camer and egg. Most of these are, by the way. Right. It's just jaw-dropping. You see those from the 1930s because as time went on on the old 16 millimeter princester used to run on Channel 5, the cartoons, the green would dissipate and the red would be remain. And what we say later on is. The joys of Eastman color, 16mm prints.

I'm used to seeing these films like as red as a beat. Right. The way you're supposed to see them is amazing. Continuing the list, doggone modern. Early Chuck Jones with the two curious puppies in a house of tomorrow. Check it out. Don't ax me as a later, Daffian Elmer. I think it's one of the last with Arthur Q. Brian as Elmer, because he passed away at this time.

Feather bluster, a very unusual foghorn, leghorn, because it takes place in the future when Foggy and the Barnyard Dog are senior citizens. Anyway, check that out. Hey, Jerry, we miss Don't Look Now. Oh, I keep ignoring Don't Look Now, and I don't know why. You should look at it. No, no. Don't Look Now is Tech Savory with a little devil in it, right, George?

Yep. Thank you, George, for the assistance on that. That's a cartoon. It's interesting. A lot of my friends who, as I am, into the later Harvey Comics, we believe that the idea for the character of Hot Stuff, The Little Devil, comes from this cartoon. I've talked to people about this, and that may be the case. And then we hit a long-neglected Bugs Bunny, a Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny, one that has never been on DVD or Blu-ray, George, a Fethe. feather in his hair. Well, I have a special affection for this cartoon because I think I've shared here that I started collecting film on my own, probably sixth grade, but like when I was

younger, I'd ask my dad, hey, when you go to the camera store, will you buy me a Bugs Bunny? And if I earned enough in my allowance. And I had an eight millimeter black and white silent version of feather in his hair with the little subtitle. So to go from that to the fact, see, a lot of people today don't realize it was not possible to own complete cartoons, no less with sound and color, you know, all that started happening about the same time home video was starting in the mid till 80s. but it was very hard. There were these home movie editions of some of the cartoons.

And the first one I got was A Feather and His Hair. It's a terrific fun cartoon. I'm so glad we were able to restore it. It's from the negative. It looks great. And it's part of the collection of the 25. Yeah. I love all these cartoons,

but that one is definitely a highlight. And I think everyone will agree when they see it. We have a couple of the cartoons that Freeling did around picnic ants or whatever or insects, insect characters, the gay aunties, another one that just falls through the cracks, just like ants, actually. The next title is again, another incredible Bugs Bunny that people have been clamoring for, and we're so happy to have it on here. Fris Freeling, Yosemite's Sam, not been seen, not on video, horse hair. And it's a great, it's really, really a great one. It's from the later period, but it's primo. But, you know, when we watched the disc the other day,

and we were checking it out, I mentioned to you, and I think it's worth mentioning here, you really see the UPA-style influence in this cartoon. You know, and Frelling didn't just stay in the same corner. that he was in, he continued to evolve as a director. Oh, yeah. And I just thought that the look of the cartoon was very, very interesting. Actually, in the case of Warner's right up to the very end of the original studio,

63-64 releases, you know, their take on that stylized UPA, that was in vogue at that time. Oh, for sure. To not look like that would be old-fashioned or like the older Terry Toons. You know, it just was an old-fashioned kind of thing to be. literal with the backgrounds, and it was pretty hip and pretty cool looking, especially in movie theaters, to see those really, really modern designs. And yet they kept the characters. You know, they didn't really modernize their look. They didn't need to. They were timeless. Yeah, they were too

big. Oh, the next title. I mean, again, we're not really here to go over each one in depth. We'll do that maybe at another time, but Joe Glow the Firefly. Okay, there's a handful of of post-1936 to 1942 black and white Looney Tunes that don't feature Porky Big. There's a few that have miscellaneous characters that are just one-offs. There are a few that just featured Daffy Duck by himself. And Joe Go to Fireflies of Chuck Jones, an early Chuck beautifully art-directed. He had this thing for giants, for miniature people. If you really look at a lot of his cartoons, he did things with fleas, he did things with flies.

He did all sorts of interesting perspective challenges. Joe Glow the Firefly is really a classic. And it's one of the rare cartoons that I think works really well in black and white. I almost can't imagine it in color. It's like a film noir in a way, but Joe Glow the Firefly. We'll follow that black and white cartoon with the very first black and white Mary Melody's cartoon Lady Player Mandolin. which, you know, harmonizing started the studio. They were aware they had to do the very first ones in particular,

had to be really good to sell the series to the exhibitors, the theater owners, the public. And so the very first cartoons are especially special, in my opinion. A lot of action, a lot of visuals going on, and a great song that they were required to put into it. Following Lady Player Mandolin, a Freeling cartoon from the 30s, The Lion Mouse. The next title is Mice Follies.

That's one of the Honey Mouseers cartoons. Yeah, I really love that cartoon. Yeah, yeah. Another Freeling from the 30s that I really like, my green fedora, which has that song in it. You know, was it Joe Penner kind of a thing. Oh, the next cartoon, nothing but the tooth,

which features Porky Pig, and it's a great porky and it makes me think back to those VHS clamshell releases that MGMUA put out before I started working there the Porky Pit Cartoon Festival featuring nothing but the tooth you know I mean like what were they thinking but they were put together by people who didn't know what the cartoons were so they come up with these weird names so giving them proper historical context is very valuable Stay with us. We'll be right back. Hi, this is Tim Millard, host of the extras podcast,

and I wanted to let you know that we have a new private Facebook group for fans of the Warner Archive and Warner Brothers catalog physical media releases. So if that interests you, you can find the link on our Facebook page or look for the link in the podcast show notes. The next cartoon is another freeling, but a very interesting little story behind it. It's of the I sting. And it's, again, it's a,

a battle with the mosquito bugs. And most people might not know that about 50% of the animation in this film is actually reuse from one of the private snafu cartoons where he's being invaded by the malaria mosquitoes. And they just took most of that animation, put it in color, and put it into a bigger cartoon. It's great. I love it. A pizza tweedy pie.

A pizza tweety pie. Yes, they go to Italy in that one. Shake Your Powder Puff, one of the black and white merry melodies from the 30s. Do you remember, George, they had the old Sunset Productions card at the beginning? Right. Yes. They had these miscellaneous characters. I think there was a character who holds his nose.

I don't even know if you know what I'm talking about, but that image comes from that cartoon, which is very weird. After Shake Your Powder Puff is another black and white, absolute classic. Definitely going to let George take this over, but it's one of my favorite cartoons, Sinking in the Bathtub. It's the first Looney Tune, the very first one released September of 1930. And the thing that's important is it's a spoof of the song singing in the bathtub, which became a staple song in Warner Brothers cartoons. Even in Forward March Hair, Bugs is sitting in the Army officer.

or helmet. Oh, you know, taking your bath going, singing in the bathtub, you know. Singing in the bathtub was, and it was emblematic of what the purpose of Looney Tunes and merry melodies were initially, which was to promote songs published by the Warner Brothers publishing companies and specifically songs written for Warner Brothers movies. So they continued to do that. for many years. They went to Texhavery in 1936 and said, we're putting out this movie, The Singing Kid, Al Jolson does this number.

I love to sing it with Cap Calloway. Suddenly there was one of the greatest cartoons ever made. I love to sing it. Yeah. About the moon, you know, so that's where it all started with sinking in the bathtub. And I don't want to point out, you and I have been involved with these cartoons for decades. And another song that's in the film is tiptoe through the tulips, which became kind of a,

was reborn by Tiny Tim in the 60s. Yes, but this is... It made the cartoon to me a little extra hip in the 70s when I caught up with it. I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. You know, let's see now. After Sinking in the bathtub is a very miscellaneous cartoon, Sleepy Time Possum.

You know, they all, all the directors, at least once a year, maybe twice, would have the opportunity to do something completely new and different. and maybe that character or premise would work, they'd repeat it, and it might catch on. And that's exactly what happened with every character, basically, whether it was Tweety, Pepe Lepew, Foghorn, Lakehorn. They all started as a supporting player, or it's a one-off, and it caught on with the public. It did very well. Sleepy Time Possum, one-off. That's it.

Slightly Daffy is the next cartoon. This one has been very much requested. The interesting thing about it is the fact that it's a remake. I've often said even on this show that when they made these cartoons after the war years for the 1930 into the 1940s, they didn't really reissue them. The whole idea of Blue Ribbon Reissues came about in the later 40s. So the thinking, and this happened at other studios, absolutely, it's happened at other studios, was to take black and white cartoons and redo them.

That's why they redid Porky and Wacky Land. As dough for the dodo, which is kind of amazing. They did that, Clampett did a lot of those. He did that one with Porky and Daffy are late for work. Back Alley Opera was a remake of Notes to You, a black and white. So similarly, without getting into it any further now, Slightly Daffy is a remake of a black and white cartoon. And I say remake, it means some of it, they reuse the animation,

some of its brand new animation. And it's a cartoon that most people haven't even seen. It's one of the ones that's been out of the limelight. We've remastered it from the original negative, and it's quite exciting that it's part of this. And I definitely want you to comment on the next title, George, because you are best suited to do that. And that was the cartoon called A Star is Hatched.

This is with Emily Chicken. Yes, the Emily Chicken version. I mean, this is the Emily Chicken cartoon. And to mention specifically, when we put out, we have four different films of a Star is Born. We have the 1937 Selsnick production, which Warner Brothers bought the rights to to remake with Judy Garland, and then it was remade with Barbara Streisand, and then it was remade with Lady Gaga. But this Astor is Hatched was a direct parody of the first A Star is Born in 1937. So we did have that on the Blu-ray of the 1937 of Starsborn.

But here it's now in the context of Warner Bros. cartoons. Quite enjoyable. Right. And then that brings us to the end of the set with a trilogy. We end with a trilogy of Tweety. This is where the alphabetization gets a little bit not quite serving us. But I agree. I give us a pass because three great Tweety cartoons in a row,

it's not really an overdose, and they're all funny. Yes. And they're ones that have been requested many, many times. Tree cornered Tweety, which is fantastic. It's a Tweeting and Sylvester cartoon done as a drag net spoof. Where else will you see that? Trick or tweet and tweet and sour. these are actually Primo Tweety and Sylvester cartoons.

Freeling was really a genius. They don't get enough attention in my opinion. I agree. He really did mix up the formula a lot in the same way and in some ways that Hannah Barbera did with Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry to a layman, to people who aren't watching this podcast, to people who aren't us,

Tom and Jerry are kind of cats chasing mice. Cat chases his house. Tweety is Sylvester and Tweety. that's it. No, they all have individual plots and twists and curves that make them even funnier, you know, and the great timing and the great animation in those films. Anyway, that's the way we conclude the first disc of this volume, Volt 3. And as we move on to disc two, we are dealing with 25 high-definition Blu-ray debuts. Some of the cartoons are quite familiar and in a very, very positive way. These are really, really great. Now, the first disc is great, but if you're a collector, it's, I got to have these. Look, we have the opportunity to really cherry pick great titles that may have been on DVD before, but never on Blu-ray. And so that's what this is.

So the quality is jaw-dropping here. It starts with Ballot Box Bunny, which is perfect for this year and next year, and the year after. Sam and Bugs running for office. Boobes in the Woods, which is one of the best of the McKimson later, Porky and Daffy Chases. Booby hatched. There's an oddball one. I love that cartoon.

That's the Tashlin. And the Case of the Missing Hair, that's a classic. It's Chuck Jones, you know, with the magician, early Jones from the early 40s. Speaking of which, the next cartoon is Conrad the Sailor, which with our friend Pinto Colvig is the voice of a character I think that Chuck was trying to get going. He's in at least three cartoons. I don't know what happened there.

Then we get into some really, really cool things with Daffy. The next one is Daffy, the Commando, one of the great wartime cartoons. And Daffy uses... He does his part. Yes, he takes out the cartoon mallet on his foe in this one. Duck soup to nuts, a super classic Elmer Daffy battle back and forth. I'm not going to say much more.

Fox Terror, here's the deal. It's a foghorn, leghorn. But for me, for years, for decades, I never understood what the title meant. I still don't exactly get the joke. A lot of titles obviously are puns. I think the idea was Fox Terrier, which is... Yes, that's what I've always thought, unless somebody has evidence to the contrary. Right.

But calling at Fox Terrier, which is... terror sounds like, you know, a horror film or something. So, I mean, I don't know. The boxy by proxy. The Freeling with the dumb sheep dog and the... That's always been a cartoon I really like. Oh. George.

Jerry. Fresh Airdale. The masterpiece. Yeah. It's a classic Jones oddity. Let's put it that way. Goldie Mouse and the three cats combines Sylvester,

Freeling, and a fairy tale spoof. I don't want to leave it at that. Very good. Okay, the next one, a very important cartoon, one from World War II. It's pronounced, hair meets hair. It's Bugs Bunny took a wrong turn on his way to Albuquerque, ends up in the black forest.

in the later period of World War II. Yes, yes. This very interesting thing in this cartoon, as many of you may know, it was written by Maltese, Michael Maltese, who later teamed with Chuck. He introduces a gag in this cartoon where Bugs goes in drag.

That happens a lot, but he's drag as a Vagnarian opera. As he would be again in what's out. Approdoc 12 years later. But expanded upon by Jones into a close. So here's kind of the beginning of that concept. Great cartoon. Holiday for shoe strings is a very much a favorite.

I love those Hungarian Rhapsody cartoons. That's what I call them. The Hollywood Daffy. That's the, I believe that's the 19- Essential. Yeah. The next cartoon is Attachlan. It's, I got plenty of mutton, which is one of those one shots from his second period at Warner Brothers in the 1940s.

Okay, George. I'm going to let you talk about this. It's another must-have cartoon that has been requested, but it hasn't been on Blu-ray. Mississippi Hair. I mean, this is such a showcase for, this is a wonderful opportunity to point. out how great when they were working with Bugs that Bugs could be an interpreter of almost any kind of character. Right.

And this is on a riverboat. He's fighting with, you know, a nasty, you know, blustery southern guy. And it's just filled with gag after gag. And Bugs never loses his cool. He never does. and I just love the interaction between Bugs and his nemesis. It is a very funny cartoon. Yes, absolutely.

Okay, let me pull the next one. The next one's also on a boat, and it's very, very famous, and it's another Bugs versus Sam cartoon, Newtney on the Bunny. And I'm going to leave it there. Let me see what I've got. Oh, the next one. is my favorite duck, Adafi.

I have to tell you that, I was telling George off camera before, I'm just going to say it, one of the very first cartoons that I was able to acquire, having my own, very own copy of it back in the 70s when I started collecting films. And at the time, it was red. It was red as a beat. But I didn't care. I loved it so much. Of course.

And it's got so much. great things in it. And it's, again, it's an early Jones. And I was pointing out to George that it's interesting that I had always known in red. And to me, it was always in red. So finally see it in color was interesting because it isn't, George was pointing out, it's like colors are pastel. It's a very strange color scheme in this film. So it, you know. It looks gorgeous, though. And it's tremendous. But you had a red print when you were a kid. I had a black and white print. Oh.

The only difference is that a black and white print won't get any worse. Right, it won't get any worse. I've had red prints that have literally faded to clear where the red disappears. Yes. Soundtrack and nothing, you know, anyway. I've seen that. I have that.

Pizzaccato Pussy Cat, a Freeling musical classic. I was going to say that's one of my favorites. Yeah. the oh, puss and booty, which I believe is one of the last, without me looking, or maybe it is the last black and white looney tune, I think. It is a Tashlin, and it's really a forerunner. In fact, they even borrowed, they remade it, so to speak,

as a Tweety and Sylvester, because they were doing that back then. They remade a lot of these. But it doesn't feature Tweety or Sylvester. It's just a cat and a canarian. But it's a great, it's a really good card. I love that. the cartoon, yeah, and it looks wonderful.

Yeah. Speaking of a cartoon, another early acquisition by Jerry Beck in his early film collecting days, my first technicolor print of a cartoon was the next one, which is a classic. And everybody acknowledges that it is. And it's by McKimson. Rabbit skin. Oh, well, this has been so requested. Yeah. Because I believe until more recent times, this was the only cartoon with Pete Puma. Yes. Yes, that's right. And, you know, how many lumps?

I mean, like, when we were kids, you'd go to school and people would quote that cartoon all the time. Right. Because, you know, the character is so wild. Stan Freedberg does the voice. He's amazing. Yes. It's just such a great cartoon.

I think there have been more recent iterations where they've done more with Pete Puma, just as they have done with Pussyfoot and Gossamer and all these other characters that really only had one or two experiences. They resonated in the minds of viewers that in more contemporary times, they have revived those characters. But Rabbit's Kin is long overdue for the beautiful high-deaf upgrade. And we've put a lot of work into these, you know,

new scans and making sure that they look really terrific and very, very pleased with. Specifically, I had to watch Rabbit Skin twice when we got the new disc in because I was like, oh my God, it looks so great. And it never stops cracking me up. Yeah, that's great. Okay, let's see. We've got a few more. We're in the R's now, the R section.

We did Rabbit Skin. The next one is a Pepey Lapew really scent. And this is from the later 50s. And what's interesting about it is finally, Chuck has decided to introduce some different storylines. Barely. Barely. It's pretty much the same thing. The one big difference is that this particular one is narrated by June Foray as an off-screen narrator, which makes it different right there.

So, great showcase for June. Stage door cartoon. one of the very great. Yeah. The precursor to hairdo. Yes. I never heard anybody say that, but you're right. No, I always think of stage door cartoon as the rehearsal.

And hairdo, which followed, I think, like, five years later, was the honing down of the gags, you know, pardon me, excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, pardon me, you know. It's basically, you know, the two of them in the theater and, uh, stage door cartoon really kind of set the tone. And then hairdo just, that's another one that is just one of my desert island bugs bunnies for sure. Absolutely. Now, before we talked about a star is hatched, but the next cartoon on the list is a star is bored. Star is bored.

George, I want you to comment on that. You're the stars. Well, this is really more about. Astoras Hatch was a parody of a Star is born. A Star is bored is just a punny use of the title to have kind of show-busy themed cartoon that's very much a product of the late 50s. Right.

It's a terrific cartoon. And looks like the final cartoon on Disc 2 is another Bugs Bunny by McKimson in the 40s. It doesn't, it's kind of an overlooked one in my opinion of the windblown hair. Very overlooked and very good. Yeah, which is the parody of the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf and the whole bit. But it's, it's Primo. So, and that is our set.

That is an amazing, if I do say so myself. You know, we went back and forth on the selections. We came up with what we thought was a great running order for both discs. And no matter what we do, we still have another mountain, thankfully, to climb. And long may we keep climbing because there's going to be so much more that we can bring to the fans. And I think that's the most exciting thing is it's the success and the fan support of prior releases that have enabled us to be able to keep going. I can't stress that enough how much we appreciate the support of the fans. Yeah.

Before we kind of wrap it up here, I did want to ask you. I think in the announcement you said there would be also some commentaries. Yes, there are some commentaries on disc two. One of them is done by this really great animation historian. I think his name is Jerry Beck. Oh, am I on there? Yeah. Jerry Beck.

Yeah. I'll put him on here. I'm sure there's others. I'm sure there are others. Better than nothing, I guess, George, but no, no, that's fantastic. Now, were those a part of the Golden? Yes. There are commentaries that have been carried over from their original incarnation

as part of the DVD Golden Collection somewhere around 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. But when you're doing something like this and your obsession doesn't diminish, And I think I can speak for both Jerry and myself in saying that our obsession is not diminished. Nope. Our passion for these cartoons and our mission statement to get them out to the people who want them to have them on their shelf like you do, Tim. Right now I'm seeing in back of you, Looney Tunes, Blu-Rays.

Yep. Hallelujah. Yeah. And I'll speak on behalf of the fan just for a little bit to say thank you both for that and enthusiasm. And I think the work you've been doing, we're kind of in a golden age right now with physical media releases of Looney Tunes. It just feels that way and we should all be enjoying it so much. Well, for 10 years, there was nothing. And I won't give up very easily. I just am very persistent in trying to win battles and in the process earn profit for the company.

company. This is not rocket science. There are millions of people out in the world who love Looney Tunes, who love Mary Melodies, who love Warner Brothers cartoons. They love Bugs and Daffy and Porky and Elmer and Roadrunner and everybody else. And it's our, I don't want to say job, It's our honor to carry on the works of Frelling and Clampett and Tasselin and Jones and McKimson and Arthur Davis and everybody else who is involved in creating these timeless American classic films. I didn't call them cartoons for a reason because Jerry and I both feel very strongly about this. this is American filmmaking animation. These films need to be treated with the same respect that any other classic film should be treated

and presented as such. Because when they were originally made and released, they were not looked upon as a source of revenue. They were looked as a source of filling the bill at the company-owned theater. You know, Warner Brothers cartoons played in Warner Brothers' own theaters. Then television came along and provided a whole new revenue stream for these cartoons. But again, no one was looking at them in the context of classic American cinema.

That's what these films are. They're short. They're animated. Not every one of them is a masterpiece. but there are very few of them that aren't at least good to start with. But, you know, I'll selfishly say that there are no funnier cartoons, with the exception of what was done at MGM, but there was no funnier cartoons made by far than the cartoons made here at Warner Bros.

Yeah. And it's one of my many responsibilities to make sure that legacy is not strayed or strewn or overlooked. It's terribly important. And it's part of the studio's DNA. And to be able to share that with the fans in a reasonably priced release that looks great and sounds great,

and my colleagues in our Creative Services Department have come up with wonderful packaging. I'm very proud of what we're bringing to the market and I'm hoping that there will be another volume greenlit soon and we'll know soon because September 8th comes around and we've got a nice set of pre-orders that could green light moving on to volume 4 right away so here's hoping yeah but most importantly I want to say thank you to Jerry for decades of partnership both of us driven by the same love for these films

and so wanting them to be seen properly and made available, there's nothing better than having them on your shelf. Nobody can take it away from you. Right. It's the whole reason why we treasure physical media and we're hammering home the point. It's great that you can see these films other ways, elsewhere, whatever,

but when it's yours, it's on your shelf, it's there for keeps and that's what we want to keep going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's another fabulous lineup. People are very excited who have been going through the post reading this. And I think everybody listening and watching to this will be very excited as well and looking to get those pre-orders in. So thanks again for coming on and taking us through this. Thank you.

Thanks, Tim, for having us. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, George. Thank you, Tim. Thank you. That's all, folks. Well, as always, it's great to have Jerry and George on to talk about and to announce these titles. They really are the two people driving these releases, curating them, bringing them to us.

You can just feel their passion and love for these Looney Tunes cartoons. What a great time it is for Looney Tunes fans. So lots of fun. I hope you enjoyed this conversation today. We will have pre-order links when they are available. so look for that either in the comment section or you can also follow us on social media. We post them there as soon as they become available.

Now, after the release happens in September, we'll get George and Jerry back on and we'll talk about some of these cartoons in more depth. Today was really about just announcing what you can expect on this release. So, very exciting stuff. Well, until next time, stay slightly obsessed about Looney Tunes.