The Extras - Warner Archive Unveils Looney Tunes Collector's Vault PLUS Two January Blu-ray Reviews

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

Send us a textGeorge Feltenstein joins us to reveal the Warner Archive's exciting plans for the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault series and discuss their ongoing preservation efforts for class...ic animation and film.• Collector's Vault Volume 1 will feature 50 fully restored cartoons - double the content of previous collections• First disc contains 25 cartoons never before released in remastered form• Second disc includes 25 shorts previously only on DVD, now in HD• Warner's preservation team is actively working to resurrect the original Bugs Bunny Show from 1960-62• Both Pepe Le Pew and Speedy Gonzales will appear in the new collection• Complete cartoon list will be announced in a month or so• Review of Gabriel Over the White House (1933) - a politically prescient drama with Walter Huston• Review of Last Stand at Sabre River (1997) - Tom Selleck stars in this TNT Western based on Elmore Leonard's novelPurchase Links:Pre-order THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE Blu-rayGABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933) Blu-rayLAST STAND AT SABER RIVER (1997) Blu-raySupport for these releases ensures Warner will continue preserving and releasing more classic animation and films from their vast library.REVIEW - THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE with Tim Millard, host of The Extras Podcast. The Extras Facebook pageThe Extras Twitter Warner Archive & Warner Bros Catalog Group As an Amazon Affiliate, The Extras may receive a commission for purchases through our purchase links. There is no additional cost to you, and every little bit helps us in the production of the podcast. Thanks in advance. Otaku Media produces podcasts, behind-the-scenes extras, and media that connect creatives with their fans and businesses with their consumers. Contact us today to see how we can work together to achieve your goals. tim@theextras.tv

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, Tim Lard here, host of the X-Rays podcast, and I just saw The Day the Earth Blew Up, a Looney Toons movie, and I want to say that this is a big thumbs up. If you're a Looney Toons fan, it has everything that you want in a Looney Toons movie. It has the gags, it has funny, it has silly, and it was great to see in the audience there, you had people who were very young, and of course you had all the 45 and up crowd, those who grew up with Looney Tunes. And it was great fun to see both age groups laughing at the appropriate places at the appropriate gags. And I could just tell that those folks that I used to work with, some of them that I knew, who worked on this film over at
Starting point is 00:00:39 Warner Brothers Animation, they really put their heart and soul into this and they really wanted to say true to the Looney Tunes ethic that was established back in the 30s and 40s in the classic days of Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes means so much to Warner Brothers so it was great to see the work that they did in this film and Daffyy Porky Pig Are the stars of this show there is no Bugs Bunny. The Toon Your Pig is also in there But if you enjoy those characters, they are very fun and it's a great teaming up But it's a lot of fun if you've been thinking I don't know do I want to deal with the hassle of going to the theater? You know what if you're a fan of Looney Tunes I hope you will because this film does need your support it
Starting point is 00:01:28 doesn't have a big budget. It has not had the marketing budget that typically would go into a Warner Brothers release because it is being distributed by Ketchup Entertainment. So I hope that if you are a Looney Tunes fan that you will go out and support this film. you'll go to the theaters, and already the film is being released on Blu-ray here in the United States at least. And I know it's only in the theaters here in the United States, but go to the theater, support it,
Starting point is 00:01:56 and if you enjoy it, then buy the Blu-ray. That pre-order is ready, it's gonna be coming out sometime in May, but please get to the theater, support it there. That always helps the downstream release on Blu-ray but it also will help Ketchup Entertainment know that they can take this to Europe, to the UK and to the rest of the world where I know there are so many Looney Tunes fans as well. I think you'll really enjoy it and you'll have a good time as well. I think you'll really enjoy it and you'll have a good time enjoying seeing some of your favorite Looney Tunes characters on the big screen. Hello and welcome to The Extras. I'm Tim, a larger host and today we have a very exciting show show I have George Feltenstein joining me to give some more
Starting point is 00:02:48 clarification about this brand new announcement of the next phase of the Looney Tunes releases from the Warner Archive and that's specifically in reference to the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault volume 1 which was just recently announced this last week. You're going to get some nice clarification on what's going to be going into this release and why they made the transition from the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice to the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault. So animation fans, I think you're going to get a lot of great information there.
Starting point is 00:03:21 And George gives us a little detail about another Looney Tunes project that he and Jerry are working on. So you'll want to hear what he has to say about that as well. So lots of good stuff for animation fans. And for classic film fans, we do have several reviews that we will be going over from the January releases. So you want to stay tuned for that. Hi, George. Hi, Tim. Great to be with you, as always. Yeah, I'm very, Tim. Great to be with you as always. Yeah. I'm very excited today.
Starting point is 00:03:47 We recently obviously talked about the announcements of what you're bringing in April, and there's a lot of excitement because you have such a diverse grouping, once again, of animation, classic, and then newer films as well. And then just a few days ago this last week, you made another announcement, which I know has the whole classic animation community very excited. And it goes back to something that you mentioned with Jerry at the end of last year,
Starting point is 00:04:20 where you said that the kind of the next evolution of Looney Tunes would be coming out this year and you knew it would be very exciting to the fans. So this is our opportunity for you to kind of explain it and announce it here on the podcast. Well, I appreciate the opportunity to do so. The timing was just because frankly we had just gotten the key art all locked in. So it was a kind of a preview of what's to come.
Starting point is 00:04:51 We obviously have not announced the 50 cartoons that will be in the collection, but I wanted people to know what was coming and what was the plan and kind of explain it. I would say toward the end of last year, Jerry and I were tossing ideas about, and Collector's Choice was clearly very welcomed by the fan community and the Arden animation enthusiasts because it was providing beautiful representations of each of these animated shorts that had not been on DVD or Blu-ray in a remastered form. And I always say that because, as I've discussed here previously, subpar masters were added to certain collections as extra material, which was very confusing
Starting point is 00:05:49 to the consumer and therefore made people believe that something had been released where, to my mind, and that's why I tried to get it stopped, was that taking a 25, 30-year-old master of a cartoon as a bonus doesn't do us any favors, and it really confuses everyone. That's why I always say remastered, because any of the cartoons that were included in the golden collection in the DVD era, were remastered as main cartoons in those collections. The same goes for the platinum collections. I think it's important to take a little trip down memory lane. I think I've talked about this before with you,
Starting point is 00:06:42 but the strategy for Looney Tunes on DVD was a huge battle that went on for, I'm going to say, six, I think six years. Because it was just at the time I had moved from MGM UA to Warner Brothers that the DVD format began and naturally the thought was, well, we need to do Looney Tunes. And at the very beginning, I wasn't picturing them. I didn't know how DVDs were going to be packaged right before the launch. I thought they'd be in jewel cases like CDs. I was just picturing all the cartoons in various... Because that's what a lot of people want. They want all thousand of the cartoons. They brought them right now.
Starting point is 00:07:46 And I get it. But the bigger problem we had, those of us, including Jerry, being not an employee of Warner Brothers, but certainly an honorary employee and a supporter and a fan and a collaborator and a contributor and a consultant and because Jerry and I had worked together on the Laserdisc compilations and whatnot and he had also done some work for Warner before I got here in the videocassette land. So we wanted to take the best approach and make these releases for the adult collector. At the same time, these were being marketed by the family team and they wanted to have something to put in Walmart for the moms and kids.
Starting point is 00:08:37 So we came up with a two tier strategy. The golden collections were meant for the adult collector. The golden collections were meant for the adult collector. We thought there'd be 10 of them, but sales continued to deteriorate to the point where we got to the sixth one. It didn't make sense to continue to the financial colleagues. They couldn't support that. And at that time, Bl blu ray was just starting and so there was a look to what do we do on blu ray. And my involvement on the platinum collections was peripheral.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Because that made that was a really difficult thing to balance you needed new, never before available animated shorts, but you also couldn't leave out the things people were dying to see in high definition. It reminds me of when we did the Golden Collection, volume one, we left off two incredibly iconic Warner Brothers cartoons. And we did so because to have all the very best in volume one didn't make sense because you needed to have some kind of big magnet for future volumes. And that created terrible controversy because people do like to complain. And if you take the way people complained in 2003, compared to the way people complain in 2025,
Starting point is 00:10:11 it was a garden party back then. The world has become a much more angry place. And the evolution of social media has just encouraged anger and bitterness and darkness, as well as some really wonderful things. It isn't all bad. And I'm sure that most of the fans of what we do, a lot of them don't participate in social media.
Starting point is 00:10:39 And a lot of people also take the time to say very nice things. It's not everybody being negative. But I really wanted to clarify what we wanted to do here. People should really think of the collector's vault. The first disc that has 25 cartoons that have been remastered that have never been on DVD or Blu-ray, that's essentially what would have been Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 5. But we wanted to diversify the offering going forward and offer more cartoons. We came up with the idea that we would have a 25 animated short collection be disc number one. And for a modest increase in price, very modest, giving the consumer more of a value proposition, we would have 25 cartoons which have never been part of any prior collection on Blu-ray.
Starting point is 00:11:51 First time in high definition in a collection of Looney Tunes. So there are so many incredibly great cartoons that have been limited to DVD only in the past. This gave us an opportunity to really raise the value up the ante, make a release that's more exciting. We're giving double the amount of cartoons, but not double the price. I think when people see the list of what we have planned, they'll be very, very excited and very enthusiastic, I hope.
Starting point is 00:12:32 You will, George. You will. And as with other collections, we're assuming there will be a volume two and a volume three. And if consumers respond to this and are supportive of it from the beginning, that will, if they're supportive from the beginning, that will mean that there will be another release, at least one additional release in 2025 and more thereafter. And I think the overall response we had and have, continue to have, for the collector's choice volumes one through four, I think we're building on that offering more and there'll be a diversification of the characters, more characters that you didn't see, like people were really upset there was no Pepe Le Pew in Collector's Choice, volumes 1 through 4.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Well, Pepe Le Pew will be part of Collector's Vault volume 1, he has not been cancelled. Speedy Gonzalez will be part of Collector's Vault Volume 1. He has not been canceled. All the characters will be represented in Volume 2 with a lot of quality, given that we're upgrading cartoons that were only available on DVD to high definition. Yes, you may have seen some of these things in high definition on television, but if you did they were so compressed. Also, some of the older high definition masters were not
Starting point is 00:14:16 addressing film damage and dirt and proper color correction the way you will see on the second disc of the collector's vault. There's going to be a lot of fine tuning going on, so I hope people will respond and be impressed by the stellar quality of each of the animated shorts in that collection. So that explains what our theory was, what our intention was, because it was concerning to me that while we were going through and finding the cartoons that had not been made available at all, not including what was on Laserdisc because for the pre-48 Mary disc as for the pre forty eight marry melodies and the pre forty eight color
Starting point is 00:15:09 looney tunes those had been on laser desk. Obviously laser desk is not a viable format anymore although i do have about a thousand of them at home and i still use my player. What we need to be in the 21st century. It's been a long time. A lot of really, really terrific films are going to be in this new collection and looking amazing. I think people will really be impressed. We're addressing picture issues as well as audio quality.
Starting point is 00:15:45 Some of the cartoons, you know, don't have great audio tracks because of, let's say the picture has been maintained impeccably, but the audio track, which is stored separately, might be two or three generations away. We're trying to find better audio tracks. So there's an intention going on to make this a really stellar two-disc presentation and I hope the fans will be very happy. The company really cares about its library and these are as important in the library as any other film, whether it be a feature film, television episode. And I think this
Starting point is 00:16:34 would be a great time for me to address something kind of related. And this is very, very embryonic. But one of the things that I wanted to do when I first got to Warner Brothers, and Jerry asked me the very same thing, and that is we are trying diligently and very hard. We are trying to resurrect The Bugs Bunny Show, the original half hour network series that ran on ABC for two seasons and then ran on Saturday mornings in all sorts of forms as they continued to chop the negatives and chop the shows. Our preservation department is actively working on this. And I've been begging for over 20 years for someone to focus on this.
Starting point is 00:17:31 And this work is actually being done. It's going to take a long time, and it's going to require microsurgery. Because the original color negatives of those half hour shows were butchered and people weren't thinking about the future and I'm hopeful that maybe in a year, maybe it'll take two years, however long it takes, we're starting with black and white fine grains that are a complete perfect record of what each of those half-hour shows were.
Starting point is 00:18:19 And we're laying them down as a bed. And then we're taking the camera negatives from each show and seeing what's missing. Now the core of each of those half hours was three cartoons and obviously for the cartoons themselves that had bridging footage the cartoons are fine. It's the bridging footage that we need to recreate the exact half hour. Because Chuck Jones and Fritz Freling and Robert McKimson and the Warner Brothers cartoon department of 1961, 60, 62, I believe, they created new animation that we only got to see little pieces of years later in the Bugs Bunny Rubber
Starting point is 00:19:06 Runner show and so forth because already the shows had been decimated. So I just want folks to know I have no idea when we'll finish the project, but the Warner Brothers Preservation Department is working on this now diligently and carefully, and I'm hoping that that's good news for everyone. 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
Starting point is 00:19:41 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. So that's fantastic news. I think everyone's gonna be very excited to hear that that work is ongoing. It means a great deal to me and I know everyone, all the fans have really been asking about this. Yeah. And before I worked here, I didn't understand why this wasn't a priority because people
Starting point is 00:20:16 want to see those shows the way they remember them. I never got to see those original shows, you know, because by the time I was able to watch these cartoons on TV as a little kid, it was the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner hour and things were chopped up. So I think it'll be amazing. We'll try to get those post and Tang commercials in there. I mean, it will be the original shows as they were. So they were made in there. I mean, it will be the original shows as they were. So they were made in color. They were broadcast in black and white until Saturday mornings. But this
Starting point is 00:20:51 is part of what's going on with Looney Tunes here at Warner Brothers. It isn't just what we're doing with Collector's Vault. And my prayer is that we'll be able to release a Collector's Vault release, you know, two, three, four times a year if things go well and the fans support the releases. This is very good news for our beloved classic animated cartoons. And I kind of think that sums up my explanation of where our head was at in coming up with Collector's Vault. A lot of people were saying, why did they just call it Collector's Choice Volume 5? Well, this is more than that.
Starting point is 00:21:38 We want to build on that and we want people to really enjoy what we're doing. Yeah. So, if I could interpret just from my perspective what that means and the value proposition that you're presenting is that if you were loving the collector's choice volumes, you're gonna get that with that disc one, that continuation. And then if you were waiting and anxiously posting,
Starting point is 00:22:05 when are they gonna get around to upgrading some of these other DVD releases? You're going to get to get your cake and eat it too. You're going to get the ones that were never released and now you're going to get the ones that were in DVD and you're going to now have them in Blu-ray with all new masters and the audio is going to be much better. And now you're going to present that 50 cartoons instead of roughly 25, what you had before, or just slightly more. So I think there's a lot here for the fans. Once they kind of understand this, what this vault series will be to say, this is great. I'm gonna love hearing what the new cartoons are,
Starting point is 00:22:47 never before, and that I'm gonna really enjoy seeing what you guys have been able to go back to from the DVDs to put out on these releases. So it's a great value, and I think it needs a new name for that reason. That was our intention, and that is our hope. And I'm of the belief that we will be able to announce the contents probably in about a month.
Starting point is 00:23:14 There are some in the collection that are being newly remastered just for this collection and the negatives were delayed arriving from the Library of Congress. So we had to move the release. We were planning to do a June 10th release. That's why I moved to June 17th release because we needed more time to create the new masters. This is really, we're very excited about it. We hope that the fans appreciate that we're not turning our back on this at all. We're very passionate about it.
Starting point is 00:23:56 There was too long of a delay between the Platinum Collection, volume three, and Collector's Choice, volume one. And I'm grateful that the company is entrusting the Warner Archive to kind of lead the parade for Boonie Tunes and all the legacy that means to this company. And I think one last thing I'll say George is that
Starting point is 00:24:25 as you started this discussion going back to your early days, this all evolves over time. And when a collection runs its course and the sales no longer continue to support it, then as a business you have to pivot and then a new format comes out, Blu-ray, 4K. Then you're given new opportunities or there's a new surge in interest or different things.
Starting point is 00:24:50 And I think that what you and Jerry do just to keep the product coming out for the fans, for the collectors is a great service and one that's highly appreciated. So many people post very positive comments, George, of the work that you and Jerry do and how much they appreciate it. So I want you to know that as well.
Starting point is 00:25:12 That is out there and I read a lot of those. And I know the listeners of the extras feel that way as well and on the YouTube channel. So many positive things that people say, bless you and Jerry for the work you do in continuing to bring these out to the fans. And I think with this new Looney Tunes Collectors Vault Volume 1, that same appreciation is going to be there. I'm really looking forward to it and looking forward to talking with you and Jerry about the cartoons on there as well
Starting point is 00:25:42 in another month or so. So. We're very excited about it. And a lot of thought went into this. And I think a lot of the fans know this, but Jerry and I aren't just the creative minds behind this. We are fans with incredible passion and enthusiasm, just like all the other enthusiasts out there. We love these films. We want to see them presented properly. We want to make sure that we do right by all the
Starting point is 00:26:18 wonderful animated films that were made here, and that we present them in the best possible way. And it's a very exciting time. And that's why I wanted to share the little piece of news that in the background, it's embryonic. We are working on trying to make the Bugs Bunny show a reality. So that's all folks for now, At least about the cartoons, but this is also a good segue into talking about some of our recent war archive releases that you and I have not talked about yet. Yeah, there were two from January
Starting point is 00:26:53 that just for one reason or another, we haven't gotten around to. And I know that there are many listeners out there who appreciate hearing what you and I have to say about these. You announce them, but then I get a chance to watch and we can talk together about our review of the final release. So we want to be sure and do that.
Starting point is 00:27:15 And we should start, I think, with the oldest one, and that is the 1933 film, Gabriel Over the White House. And you mentioned when this was announced that you had wanted to time it around the inauguration. It came out a little bit after that. But what a perfect choice because it is set, you know, the story is about this man who's elected president and he is, you know, kind of in bed with all of the corporate titans. And then he has this accident and he has a change. And it's really interesting to see
Starting point is 00:27:53 the transformation that he has to try to change a country for better. I didn't really know this film when I watched it and I was enthralled. It just moves. It's got great atmosphere. The story is very good. And of course, the acting is fantastic in it. So I really enjoyed this film. I thought that it was a wonderful opportunity to upgrade this film. It had only been available on DVD and the source master it came from was about 30 years old. So for this new 4K scan of our best preservation elements and to give it a really golden treatment and to put it out at an appropriate time, I just thought was the right thing to do.
Starting point is 00:28:51 And the director, Gregory LaCaba, who is a multi-talented director, he directed a lot of really great films in different genres and styles and feel. This film is really, some people have referred to it as a wild movie that it's like so over the top. And it's very unlike your usual 1933 MGM movie, but it very much has a message, I think, of hope and speaks to the greatness of true patriotism and loving the freedoms of our country. I mean, you think that's the takeaway message of it. Walter Houston's performance as the president is really quite remarkable. This is a film that was pretty much consigned to really, really good film school classes,
Starting point is 00:29:52 hardly seen anywhere, occasionally, maybe at two o'clock in the morning on Turner Classic Movies or something. And like I said, we did have a early Warner Archive DVD, which came from a very old master. The quality of a presentation can change how much you can enjoy what a film has to say. A really terrible print of
Starting point is 00:30:19 a really great movie is still going to be great because the movie itself is great. But when you have a beautiful presentation of a great movie, especially one that you may not have known about, this is a film I really recommend people. They're going to do a blind buy, take a risk, watch the movie, you will be glad to add it to your collection. It was always kind of an, I don't want to say underground, it was kind of like if you were savvy enough in your American film history to know about Gabriel over the White House,
Starting point is 00:31:01 that puts you as a film buff and a film fan in a special category of people who really know their stuff. This film needs to be better known and falls into the rare and hard to find category that was why it was part of the Warner Archive collection and the early DVDs. But now it's a Blu-ray from a beautiful master and it looks terrific. And I'm finding that a lot of these films from the 30s, as I'm watching them, you know, obviously the restoration just really brings them to life. But topically, it's almost like, I mean, we're talking 90 years ago, George, coming up on 100 before
Starting point is 00:31:46 too long. And yet the relevance of the subject matter, it's still the same relevance, people, jobs, economy. Like there are so many things in this specifically that are as relevant today as they were 80, 90, 100 years ago. And that makes it prescient for the viewer now, but you can see it historically as well for that time. So I just found that it worked on so many levels. And then of course, Walter Houston is fantastic
Starting point is 00:32:18 and the other actors as well. So definitely a great blind buy if you don't know this one. I've even read some comments from people who did that and they were so glad that they did. So really fun to review this one. And there are some extras on here, George, from what, 1933, the cartoons that you have on? Yes. You have Bosco in person, Buddy's Beer Garden, and The Dish ran away with the spoon and I watched all three and
Starting point is 00:32:45 they're really fun and totally fit the theme of 1933 here with this film. Well, it puts you in the mood of what you would have experienced if you went to a movie theater and if you wouldn't have seen exactly these cartoons, you would have seen something like them. I always find that to be a great deal of fun, just to be able to add that on. The response we have gotten on this film so far, especially in terms of there have been some pretty big articles written about it in major newspapers and online sites, where people who don't usually talk about our releases wanted
Starting point is 00:33:27 to talk about Gabriel over the White House. Obviously, these are very politically sensitive times. And a film that is 92 years old, having a message for us now, it's kind of like, you know, people speaking to us from the great beyond. It's quite remarkable. And I really hope people enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah. That is fun that people have been refinding this again.
Starting point is 00:33:55 And that's what these new Blu-rays allow, George, people to refind it. And when you put a little publicity and promotion behind it, the new launch of the Blu-ray, and it brings back into the conversation, so to speak. So that's great to hear. Well, we have one other film that we wanted to talk about, and this is Last Stand at Saber River from 1997. And this one stars Tom Selleck in a Western that was based off of an Elmore Leonard novel. I thought this was great fun. If you enjoy Westerns, if that's a genre that interests you,
Starting point is 00:34:34 I thought the acting from Tom and his supporting cast was very good. And then it's a fun, interesting storyline of this ex Confederate officer or soldier who comes back to his home and his wife and his family, and things have changed. And so it has a lot of great drama and a lot of great action in it as well, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Well, the TNT network, back in the days when it was started by Ted Turner, they really
Starting point is 00:35:09 formed their own TNT Originals production unit where Turner Broadcasting was funding the making of films specifically for TNT and Ted loved westerns and with the exception of the occasional Dances with Wolves in 1990, Unforgiven in 1992, Wyatt Earp in 1994, there were a few westerns being made for the big screen but not a lot. And Ted did a great service to fans of the genre by making many Westerns, as well as many other non-Westerns for TNT. The TNT telefilms were really a step above most made for television films. There were still in the 90s movies being made for
Starting point is 00:36:11 network TV, although that was dying out as cable was becoming a resurgent medium. I think a lot of the films that were made for TNT were up to the level and as good as the things that were being made for HBO, which were probably the best things ever made that weren't for theatrical release. But this particular TNT Western, not only because of Tom Selleck's continued popularity for decades as a performer, but because the story was written by Elmore Leonard two years before this movie, Get Shorty came out in the theaters and people who didn't know Elmore Leonard's incredible, unique sense of writing became aware of him. And he of course already had a huge
Starting point is 00:37:06 fan following. So I think this was a combination of Elmer Leonard and the TNT Western coming together under the best conditions. And here we went back to the camera negative in Scandad 4K. And you don't feel like you're watching a telefilm. You feel like you're watching a theatrical film of what would now be called a modest budget. But it's good storytelling, good acting. Suzy Amis is the female lead. There's a lot of action, but there's a lot of heart. And it's also very relatable. The writing is of such high quality that it kind of sticks
Starting point is 00:37:53 with you. And we intend to do more with the TNT library over the next coming years. We would like to do a lot more bringing these films to Blu-ray because people are wearing out their DVDs or their VHS copies. This is the time, certainly not for all of them, but for some of them, their excellence demands an excellent presentation. I'm excited about a lot of the ones we have in the hopper that we're planning on
Starting point is 00:38:31 for later on this year and next year and hopefully the year after. And I think he did some other Westerns. So hopefully those are in that batch you're talking about. Oh, yes. Yes. I've been asking already. So looking forward to that. So yeah, another
Starting point is 00:38:46 thumbs up on this one. It's a very solid movie. And for for fans of the Western genre, this is a lot of fun. So well, that kind of wraps up our discussion for today, George, as a lot of territory, even though it was just a few topics that I think that's, you know, really fun for both animation and film fans. And as always, George, it's great to hear from you and the explanation on these things so that people can get from the source and get the truth and not just speculation or rumors or conjecture that is sometimes out there. So I want to thank you again for coming on the extras. Well, thank you, Tim. It's always a pleasure.
Starting point is 00:39:26 And I look forward to the next get together. We'll have a lot of fun things to talk about that we will that we will. Well, that's exciting news. I'm so glad that George was able to jump on to give us the full announcement for that Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1. We'll get George and Jerry back on to talk about this release either closer to the release or soon after and they'll also be announcing probably in another month or so the actual cartoons that are included.
Starting point is 00:39:58 So lots of great stuff ahead for animation fans, for Looney Tunes fans, and so that's something to look forward to. If you want more information about anything we talked about today, check out our Facebook page and other social media links as well. Those are in the podcast show notes. And for the two reviews that we did today, there are purchase links if you're interested in those. Those were two fine films that I hope you'll add to your list if you haven't already. And if you haven't followed the show, please think about doing that. It's a great way to stay on top of all of our podcasts so that you don't miss one or that you get the information about it right away. We appreciate it if you've already done that. And as always, we appreciate any
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