Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 14, 2006. The fourth release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, eight documentaries, 20 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 18 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 14 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.
This is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is dedicated to Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is dedicated to Speedy Gonzales. Disc four features Sylvester, plus lesser known feline characters such as Conrad the Cat and Claude Cat, among others. Previous Golden Collections included at least one All-Stars disc with no common theme.
Like Volume 3, Volume 4 contains a warning about the politically incorrect humor and racial stereotypes in some of the cartoons, but unlike Volume 3's warning, which was a filmed introduction done by Whoopi Goldberg, Volume 4 simply presents a title card before the main menu with the following:
The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.
The Region 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others.
Contents
Related releases
As with the first three volumes, the individual discs were released separately in Region 2:
Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4
Disc 2: Best of Porky & Pals, Volume 3
Disc 3: Best of Speedy Gonzales, Volume 1
Disc 4: All Stars, Volume 5
In Australia (Region 4), the stand-alone Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4 was released in 2008. It was the only disc to be released in that territory.
In Region 1, discs 1 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4.
Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Favorites
All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
Special features
Audio commentaries
Eric Goldberg on Rabbit Hood and Mississippi Hare
Paul Dini on Operation: Rabbit and Hurdy-Gurdy Hare
Jerry Beck on 8 Ball Bunny
June Foray and Jerry Beck on Rabbit Romeo
Music only tracks on Knight-mare Hare, Sahara Hare, Barbary Coast Bunny, To Hare Is Human and Rabbit Romeo
Music and effects track on Operation: Rabbit and Southern Fried Rabbit
Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott: A look on Raymond Scott's most famous instrumental piece that was used in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts Powerhouse (instrumental)
Powerhouse in Pictures
Bugs Bunny: Superstar, Part 1 (1975):
What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
The Wild Hare (1940)
A Corny Concerto (1943)
I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 ½ Minutes (1989)
The Bugs Bunny Show
Ballpoint Puns Bridging Sequences
Foreign Legion Leghorn recording sessions
Trailer Gallery:
Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Carnival
Disc 2 - A Dash of Tashlin
All cartoons on this disc are directed by Frank Tashlin.
Special features
Mark Kausler on The Case of the Stuttering Pig and Porky in the North Woods
Michael Barrier with Frank Tashlin on Now That Summer is Gone, Cracked Ice and Porky's Poultry Plant
Daniel Goldmark on You're an Education
Greg Ford on Plane Daffy and I Got Plenty of Mutton
Jerry Beck on Puss n' Booty
Eddie Fitzgerald on The Stupid Cupid
Bugs Bunny: Superstar, part 2, which contains the following shorts:
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
My Favorite Duck (1942)
Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
The Old Grey Hare (1944)
Porky and Daffy in The William Tell Overture (1991)
Frank Tashlin Storybooks
Little Chic’s Wonderful Mother
Tony and Clarence
Private Snafu shorts
The Goldbrick (1943)
The Home Front (1943)
Censored (1944)
Disc 3 - Speedy Gonzales in a Flash
All cartoons on this disc star Speedy Gonzales.
Special features
Audio commentaries
Stan Freberg and Jerry Beck on Cat-Tails for Two
Greg Ford with Friz Freleng on Mexican Boarders
Art Leonardi and Jerry Beck on Nuts and Volts
Paul Dini on The Wild Chase
Music only track on Tabasco Road, Mexicali Schmoes, and West of the Pesos
Music and effects track on Cat-Tails for Two
90 Day Wondering (1956 Army reenlistment film by Chuck Jones)
Drafty, Isn’t It? (1957 Army recruitment film by Chuck Jones)
Friz on Film (new 1-hour documentary)
Disc 4 - Kitty Korner
Special features
Audio commentaries
Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on Conrad the Sailor
Eddie Fitzgerald on The Aristo-Cat
Greg Ford with Chuck Jones on The Aristo-Cat
Jerry Beck on Dough Ray Me-ow
Daniel Goldmark on Pizzicato Pussycat
June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Unexpected Pest
Music only tracks on Cat Feud, The Unexpected Pest, and Go Fly a Kit
Music and effects track on A Peck o' Trouble
One Hit Wonders
Sing-a-Song of Looney Tunes
The Art of the Gag
Wild Lines: The Art of Voice Acting
Looney Tunes: A Cast of Thousands
Porky’s Breakdowns (1939 joke reel with Porky swearing) (unavailable on UK release)
Sahara Hare Storyboard Reel
Porky's Poor Fish Storyboard Reel