LOONEY TUNES VOLUME 5, POPEYE & WOODY DVD SPECULATION!

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 5

News has hit theGAC Forum that a trailer for the upcoming Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Five will be included on the Popeye the Sailor DVD set on July 31!

Past releases of the Golden Collections have been announced in July so we should get an official release date soon! This is the final major vintage cartoon DVD release expected for this year and it should arrive in November. What other vintage cartoon DVD's are there this year? Check out this previous post!

UPDATE: Just announced! Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Five will arrive October 30th!!

According to the forum, based on the clips seen in the trailer, this is a small sample of some of the cartoons we should see in volume five:

"Milk and Money" (LT, Avery, 1936)
"Little Red Walking Hood" (MM, Avery, 1937)
"The Daffy Doc" (LT, Clampett, 1938)
"Patient Porky" (LT, Clampett, 1940)
"Prehistoric Porky" (LT, Clampett, 1940)
"Porky's Preview" (LT, Avery, 1941)
"The Wacky Wabbit" (MM, Clampett, 1942)
"Scrap Happy Daffy" (LT, Tashlin, 1943)
"The Old Grey Hare" (MM, Clampett, 1944)
"Hollywood Daffy" (MM, Freleng, 1946)
"Bacall to Arms" (MM, Clampett, 1946)
"A Pest In the House" (MM, Jones, 1947)
"Buccaneer Bunny" (LT, Freleng, 1948)
"Paying the Piper" (LT, McKimson, 1949)
"Little Red Rodent Hood" (MM, Freleng, 1952)
"The Turn-Tale Wolf" (MM, McKimson, 1952)
"The Super Snooper" (LT, McKimson, 1952)
"Red Riding Hoodwinked" (LT, Freleng, 1955)
"Bugs Bonnets" (MM, Jones, 1956)
"A Star is Bored" (LT, Freleng, 1956)
"Goldimouse and the Three Cats" (LT, Freleng, 1960)
"The Abominable Snow Rabbit" (LT, Jones, 1961)
"Senorella and the Glass Huarache" (LT, Hawley Pratt, 1964)

Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938

And while we're on the topic, Cartoon Brew has posted some stills of the upcoming Popeye DVD and they look AMAZING! The restoration is remarkable! Check out the stills here and here.

Jerry also tells us that this set is going to be loaded down with special features including individual featurettes on all the characters, spotlights on music, influence on pop culture,
Thimble Theater featurette, audio commentaries, pop-up commentaries, and a bunch of Ko-Ko the Clown cartoons!

Wow! This may be the best DVD set ever!



The above picture is a still from the Popeye set and the below picture is a still that I pulled off of one of the public domain DVDs that I have. This should give you an example of the restoration that was put into this set.

Woody Woodpecker and Friends

Also, those of you who are interested in the Woody Woodpecker and Friends DVD set that is coming out on July 24 may be interested to know that woodywoodpecker.com has updated their site to give you an in depth detail of the upcoming set.

The site give a complete disc track list as well as bonus feature list and some cool downloads! Check it out!

THIS DAY IN 1931: BOSKO'S SODA FOUNTAIN

On November 14th, 1931, the Warner Bros. animation department released their sixteenth cartoon staring Bosko, the Ink-Talk Kid. In Bosko's Soda Fountain, Bosko is a soda jerk who takes pleasure in serving the local denizens ice cream in a musical and comical fashion. Meanwhile, Honey is teaching Wilbur to play the piano coaxing him with the promise of ice cream when they are done. She calls up Bosko and asks him to bring over an ice cream cone, to which, Bosko races over to her house nearly spilling the ice cream cone several times.

Does this sound like a pretty weak plot to you? Well this is the basis of most of the old Looney Tunes cartoons of the 30s. With the invention of 'talkies' (movies with dialogue) Warner Bros. animators Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising created Bosko in 1927.

He was ment to be a parody of white actors who pretended to be black in vaudeville plays. This became the stereotype for black cartoon characters for many years. Mickey Mouse followed this model as well but was masked as a mouse whereas Bosko was definitely a 'Negro boy'.

The Bosko cartoons showcased Warner's cutting edge voice-synchronization techniques and Bosko went on to be Warner Bros. very first cartoon star.

In 1933, Harmon and Ising left Warner Bros. but because they made sure they kept the right to the character, Bosko went with them to MGM where he appeared in a few Happy Harmonies cartoons before disappearing completely.