Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2
{{Short description|2012 American cartoon anthology}}
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| name = Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2
| image = Looney Tunes Platinum Collection - Volume 2.jpg
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| director = Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Arthur Davis, Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton
| producer = Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton, Fred Quimby (Disc 3 only)
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| starring = voice of Mel Blanc
| music = {{ubl|Norman Spencer|Carl Stalling|Milt Franklyn|Scott Bradley (in Disc 3, Special features)}}
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| distributor = Warner Home Video
| released = {{Film date|2012|10|16}}
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| country = United States
| language = English
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 is a Blu-ray and DVD box set by Warner Home Video released on October 16, 2012. It contains 50 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Bugs-Bunny-Looney-Tunes-Comedy-Hour-looney-tunes-platinum-2-announced/17319|title=The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 2 Announced|access-date=2012-08-01|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623024115/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Bugs-Bunny-Looney-Tunes-Comedy-Hour-looney-tunes-platinum-2-announced/17319|archive-date=2015-06-23}} Disc 3 is exclusive to the Blu-ray version of the set. Unlike Volume 1, which was released in a digibook, Volume 2 was released in a standard 1 movie case. This release was followed by Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3.
All but ten cartoons — What Makes Daffy Duck, Birdy and the Beast, Home, Tweet Home, The High and the Flighty, Porky's Hare Hunt, Hare-um Scare-um, Prest-O Change-O, The Lion's Busy, Strife with Father, and A Horse Fly Fleas — had previously been restored as part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, or as part of a Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD.
Disc 1
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#
!Title !Characters !Year !Director !Series |
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1
|1940 !MM |
2
|Bugs |1944 !LT |
3
|Bugs |1949 !LT |
4
|1957 !MM |
5
|1957 !LT |
6
|1943 !LT |
7
|What Makes Daffy Duck{{refn|group=n|name=new|New to Blu-ray and DVD.}} |1948 !LT |
8
|1946 !LT |
9
|1956 !LT |
10
|1938 !LT |
11
|1940 !LT |
12
|1938 !LT |
13
|1948 !MM |
14
|1952 !MM |
15
|1951 !LT |
16
|1952 !LT |
17
|Birdy and the Beast{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1944 !MM |
18
|Home, Tweet Home{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1950 !MM |
19
|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner |1952 !MM |
20
|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner |1953 !MM |
21
|1951 !MM |
22
|1948 !MM |
23
|The High and the Flighty{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1956 !MM |
24
|1957 !LT |
25
|1959 !LT |
(*): Original opening bullet titles restored
=Special features=
==Behind the Tunes==
- Man from Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett
- Bosko, Buddy, and the Best of Black and White
- Leon Schlesinger: The Merrie Cartoon Mogul (provided in HD){{cite web|url=http://www.dohtem.com/bugs/news/ |title=Looney Tunes DVD News |publisher=Dohtem.com |access-date=2012-11-30}}
==Alternate audio tracks==
- Audio commentaries
- Michael Barrier on Buckaroo Bugs, Long-Haired Hare, Book Revue, Porky in Wackyland and The Foghorn Leghorn
- Eddie Fitzgerald, John Kricfalusi, and Kali Fontecchio on Buckaroo Bugs
- Greg Ford on A Wild Hare, Ali Baba Bunny, Show Biz Bugs (with pre-score music), Back Alley Oproar, Scent-imental Romeo and The High and the Flighty
- Jerry Beck on You Ought to Be in Pictures, Canned Feud, Tabasco Road and Mexicali Shmoes
- Mark Kausler on Porky in Egypt and Birdy and the Beast
- Constantine Nasr on Deduce, You Say!
- Music-only tracks include: Ali Baba Bunny, The High and the Flighty, Tabasco Road and Mexicali Shmoes
- Music-and-effects tracks include: Scent-imental Romeo
Disc 2
class="wikitable sortable" |
#
!Title !Characters !Year !Director !Series |
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1
|1941 !MM |
2
|1951 !LT |
3
|1952 !MM |
4
|1953 !MM |
5
|1951 !MM |
6
|1954 !MM |
7
|1956 !LT |
8
|1941 !MM |
9
|1943 !MM |
10
|1947 !LT |
11
|Porky's Hare Hunt{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1938 !LT |
12
|Hare-um Scare-um{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1939 |Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton !MM |
13
|Prest-O Change-O{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |Two Curious Puppies, Proto-Bugs |1939 !MM |
14
|1940 !MM |
15
|1942 !MM |
16
|1945 !LT |
17
|The Lion's Busy{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1950 !LT |
18
|Strife with Father{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1950 !MM |
19
|1943 !MM |
20
|A Horse Fly Fleas{{refn|group=n|name=new}} |1947 !LT |
21
| |1941 !MM |
22
| |1936 !MM |
23
| |1956 !MM |
24
| |1944 !MM |
25
|Dough Ray Me-ow | |1948 !MM |
=Special features=
==Behind the Tunes==
- Forever Befuddled
- A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy
- Looney Tunes Go Hollywood
- A Conversation with Tex Avery
- Looney Tunes Go to War!
==Alternate audio tracks==
- Audio commentaries
- Michael Barrier on Wabbit Twouble, Rabbit Seasoning, Drip-Along Daffy, Tortoise Beats Hare and Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
- Greg Ford on Rabbit Fire and Hollywood Steps Out
- Eric Goldberg on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
- Chuck Jones on Tortoise Beats HareAccording to the packaging for Golden Collection, Volume 2
- Mark Kausler on Tortoise Wins by a Hare and Russian Rhapsody
- Jerry Beck on Porky's Hare Hunt, Elmer's Candid Camera and Dough Ray Me-Ow
- Paul Dini on The Bashful Buzzard
- John Kricfalusi and Bill Melendez on An Itch in Time
- Will Friedwald on Page Miss Glory
- Constantine Nasr on Rocket-bye Baby
- Music-only tracks include: Rabbit Fire, Drip-Along Daffy, Barbary Coast Bunny
- Music-and-effects tracks include: Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
Disc 3: Bonus Materials
- King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
- Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons
- Friz on Film
- ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons
- Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private Snafu
- The World of Leon Schlesinger
- Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)
- Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)
- Crying for the Carolines (1930)
- It's Got Me Again! (1932)
- Haunted Gold title sequence
- Schlesinger Productions Christmas Party with optional commentary by Martha Sigall and Jerry Beck
- Friz at MGM - Captain and the Kids cartoons
- Poultry Pirates (1938)
- A Day at the Beach (1938)
- The Captain’s Christmas (1938)
- Seal Skinners (1939)
- Mama’s New Hat (1939)
- The Best of the Rest of Tex - a selection of Tex Avery's best cartoons from MGM
- Blitz Wolf (1942)
- Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
- Screwball Squirrel (1944)
- Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
- King-Size Canary (1947)
- Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
- Señor Droopy (1949)
- Wags to Riches (1949)
- Symphony in Slang (1951)
- Magical Maestro (1952)
- Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)
- Private Snafu cartoons
- Coming!! Snafu (1943)
- Gripes (1943)
- Spies (1943)
- The Goldbrick (1943)
- The Home Front (1943)
- Rumors (1943)
- Snafuperman (1944)
- Censored (1944)
- Mr. Hook cartoons
- The Good Egg (1945)
- The Return of Mr. Hook (1945)
- Tokyo Woes (1945)
See also
- Looney Tunes Golden Collection
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present)
Notes
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