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S. C. MacPeter
a year ago
[URL="https://www.facebook.com/warnerarchive/posts/pfbid02fn5Md1KUhjXhMWnsMNuCf8LF2sG2eqS7ipHVjN8UYGYT562s2YK5qdZh4467zGLcl"]Volume 2 has been announced for the 28th of November[/URL]

.......and that's NOT all folks!
Coming from the Warner Archive Collection on November 28th
25 classic Warner Bros. cartoons making their Blu-ray debut!
Further details to come VERY shortly

Warner Archive wrote:


looneylife326
a year ago
Love to see it! Two days before my birthday!
ArcLordOne
a year ago

[URL="https://www.facebook.com/warnerarchive/posts/pfbid02fn5Md1KUhjXhMWnsMNuCf8LF2sG2eqS7ipHVjN8UYGYT562s2YK5qdZh4467zGLcl"]Volume 2 has been announced for the 28th of November[/URL]

.......and that's NOT all folks!
Coming from the Warner Archive Collection on November 28th
25 classic Warner Bros. cartoons making their Blu-ray debut!
Further details to come VERY shortly

Originally Posted by: S. C. MacPeter 


Warner Archive wrote:


I thought that would be next year! Well, I have my holidays planned out...

nickramer
a year ago
I was wondering when this will be finally announced officially. Jerry actually hinted at this during the "Animation Brain Trust" panel at this year's San-Diago Comic-Con. See at the 18:20 mark:

S. C. MacPeter
a year ago
I also knew this was in the works, but in fairness I think everyone here knew it would happen. Vol 1 started selling like gangbusters right away, George and Jerry probably got the greenlight for this set immediately after release date. Considering there's more films, and if the curation is just as solid as the first one, I bet we'll get even more sets. I just hope this time, the cartoons were actually redone
Kristjan
a year ago
Devastating news.................. for my Wallet. 😂
vdubdavid
a year ago
I'm just as excited as everyone else at this announcement and will surely make another pre-order as soon as practicable. Meanwhile, I wonder what is possible given the 'Blu-Ray debut' stipulation.

If we are obliged to stick with 1947/8 and later shorts, I would like to see shorts from the post-Golden Collection 'Super Stars' DVDs get some reevaluation. Besides the ones that were given phoney widescreen crop jobs, the remastering on the later discs (I'm thinking the Porky Pig & Friends and Sylvester/Hippety Hopper ones in particular) featured some skewed color grading that I've love to see undone.

Since some of the shorts on those discs, such as 'The Pest Who Came to Dinner', 'Dog Collared' and 'Pop 'Im Pop!' were de-Blue Ribbon-ized with their original opening rings, raising them up to Blu-Ray standard ought to be an easy win and would earn guaranteed goodwill from the animation community. That's if there's still no possibility of genuinely lost title sequences being found/reinstated, that is.
Slowly I Turn
a year ago
On The Extras podcast George states that a third volume "is already being worked on". Assuming 2 coming out at Christmas time will have great sales, then seems like a third volume is almost assured.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hcZglqSN1M2kuYVUe9tFu 

The mention of volume 3 is around the 19 minute mark.
S. C. MacPeter
a year ago
Curation for the disc has been announced just now, by Warner Archive.  Good titles, I wasn't expecting his many one shots and oddball characters but I am not complaining!

1. BEHIND THE MEAT-BALL (1945) Directed by Frank Tashlin
2. BROTHER BRAT (1944) Directed by Frank Tashlin-with Porky Pig
3. CATTY CORNERED (1953) Directed by Friz Freleng-with Tweety and Sylvester
4. CROSS COUNTRY DETOURS (1940) Directed by Tex Avery
5. DAFFY’S SOUTHERN EXPOSURE (1942) Directed by Norm McCabe-with Daffy Duck
6. DING DOG DADDY (1942) Directed by Friz Freleng
7. THE EAGER BEAVER (1946) Directed by Chuck Jones
8. FAIR AND WORM-ER (1946) Directed by Chuck Jones
9. FIN 'N CATTY (1943) Directed by Chuck Jones
10. FROM HAND TO MOUSE (1944) Directed by Chuck Jones
11. GHOST WANTED (1940) Directed by Chuck Jones
12. GREETINGS BAIT (1943) Directed by Friz Freleng-with Wacky Worm
13. HAMATEUR NIGHT (1939) Directed by Tex Avery-with Egghead
14. HARE-BREADTH HURRY (1963) Directed by Chuck Jones with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote
15. A HICK A SLICK AND A CHICK (1948) Directed by Arthur Davis
16. HISS AND MAKE UP (1948) Directed by Arthur Davis
17. A HOUND FOR TROUBLE (1951) Directed by Chuck Jones-with Charlie Dog
18. I WANNA BE A SAILOR (1937) Directed by Tex Avery
19. THE LEGHORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT (1950) Directed by Robert McKimson-with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk
20. LICKETY-SPLAT (1961) Directed by Chuck Jones-Co-Directed by Abe Levitow
-with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
21. ONE MEAT BRAWL (1947) Directed by Robert McKimson-with Porky Pig
22. THE PENGUIN PARADE (1938) Directed by Tex Avery
23. RABBIT RAMPAGE (1955) Directed by Chuck Jones-with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
24. THE REBEL WITHOUT CLAWS (1961) Directed by Friz Freleng-with Tweety and Sylvester
25. THE WACKY WORM (1941) Directed by Friz Freleng-with Wacky Worm

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vdubdavid
a year ago
Wow, that is such an eclectic mix of shorts. They really are going for broke to get some of the more obscure ones out, particularly the Tashlins and Jones one-shots ('Ghost Wanted'? Sold!)

Though I look at all those shorts that are currently only known to exist as Blue Ribbon reissues and wish against all reason we could be surprised with restorations of original title sequences for any of them.

That being said, this is another automatic pre-order.
fulano7
a year ago
Great selection. Lots of one-shots from the 1940s. That's the way to go!

I'm very optimistic about these releases.

See, there are ~300 shorts whose best physical media release is DVD (Golden Collection, Super Stars, and Academy Awards Collection). I don't know what they are going to do with them.

Most of the DVD-only releases are available via Jack Sparrow, restored, in HD Web-DL form. And most of them are available via official iTunes purchase, although this format is subject to arbitrary unavailability.

I'd like them to slap all those on disc already, because there are more obscure films being released via Collector's Choice while more popular gems remain in the Golden Collection/Web-DL limbo...

Anyways, 10 years from now the future of LT in bluray looks very bright. Let's do the math: they are scratching the obscure, never-released-restored-on-physical-media ones. That's about 200 shorts, that got new restorations on MeTV, HBO Max, and Ride. That means that if they keep the pace of 2 vols. per year and 25 shorts per volume, in 4 years they will fully scratch the transfers that we nowadays share precariously on Jack Sparrow, from the 2020-2023 batch. More 4 years and they can possibly scratch all the Golden Collection/Super Stars-exclusive transfers. It may seem distant, but for comparison, it took 10 years for the publisher (2 books per year) to fully release the Peanuts strips. We are talking about a 1002-film run (LT/MM). So, almost inevitably, if they keep releasing these things, we will end up in the last ~200 or so shorts. If the classic animation releases don't get cancelled, in around ~17 years we're headed for completion. It's going to be interesting.
I always come to TTTP in Exile in the hope of finding news about Warner announcing Tex Avery Collection.
Bobby Bickert
a year ago

13. HAMATEUR NIGHT (1939) Directed by Tex Avery-with Egghead

Warner Archive wrote:



Actually, it's "Egghead's brother".
Kyroe
a year ago

Wow, that is such an eclectic mix of shorts. They really are going for broke to get some of the more obscure ones out, particularly the Tashlins and Jones one-shots ('Ghost Wanted'? Sold!)

Though I look at all those shorts that are currently only known to exist as Blue Ribbon reissues and wish against all reason we could be surprised with restorations of original title sequences for any of them.

That being said, this is another automatic pre-order.

Originally Posted by: vdubdavid 



Cross Country Detours has its original non-Blue Ribbon titles restored on MeTV though.
nickramer
a year ago
For those that are confused about "Rabbit Rampage" being on there, while the short was included in the final "Golden Collection" set, it has not been released on Blu-Ray before and it was riddled with DVNR on the previous set. Hopefully, we won't have that nonsense on the disc.
Thad Komorowski
a year ago

For those that are confused about "Rabbit Rampage" being on there, while the short was included in the final "Golden Collection" set, it has not been released on Blu-Ray before and it was riddled with DVNR on the previous set. Hopefully, we won't have that nonsense on the disc.

Originally Posted by: nickramer 



RABBIT RAMPAGE was part of the huge batch restored for Max, and while it looked fine, the opening titles had some noticeably horrific After Effects meddling where a chunk of the screen stays static on the pan. It will probably be the same version here (likely cropped to try and minimize the damage).
RareSox
a year ago

[URL="https://www.facebook.com/warnerarchive/posts/pfbid02fn5Md1KUhjXhMWnsMNuCf8LF2sG2eqS7ipHVjN8UYGYT562s2YK5qdZh4467zGLcl"]Volume 2 has been announced for the 28th of November[/URL]

.......and that's NOT all folks!
Coming from the Warner Archive Collection on November 28th
25 classic Warner Bros. cartoons making their Blu-ray debut!
Further details to come VERY shortly

Originally Posted by: ArcLordOne 


Originally Posted by: S. C. MacPeter 


I thought that would be next year! Well, I have my holidays planned out...

Warner Archive wrote:



Great job summoning Hallmark Channel, Facebook Mom. /j
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ArcLordOne
a year ago
Gross, man. I just ate...
S. C. MacPeter
a year ago
The set has been delayed to December 12th. I get the impression its pre-order has so much demand that they need more time for creating the discs to meet said demands
S. C. MacPeter
a year ago
The first review for Collector's Choice Volume 2  is out, seemingly a repeat quality wise to Volume 1 minus two issues

-WACKY WORM is pretty crappy to an unacceptable degree
-EAGER BEAVER is apparently out of sync

The two new restorations do look very great!