About this Project and FAQ

Who am I?

This website was created by BF10 for the main purpose of logging the restoration progress of the Looney Tunes shorts, while also maintaining the home media status for the shorts.

Acknowledgements

I would also like to thank these contributors and websites for assisting me in my website one way or another.

• Looney Tunes Wiki for basic short and home media information.
• Catra-Dohtem for more descriptive information on releases, primarily for VHS and LaserDisc material.
• LaserDisc and VHS collectors for providing cover art (front and back) for out of print releases, courtesy of listings from eBay and VideoCollector.co.

What is this project about?

Throughout the 40 years that the theatrical Looney Tunes shorts came out, over 1000 shorts were produced from the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. Of course, this is an extremely large number of cartoons, and over the years, some (but not all) of the shorts have been released to home media in varying quality.
To learn more about the restoration process and home media, see the history of Looney Tunes restorations here.

Why did you make this?

Perhaps the largest factor was the lack of proper documentation for the restoration process of the shorts altogether. Some people may be familiar with the list of restored and non-restored cartoons on the FANDOM wiki. However, FANDOM's recent predatory practices had made navigating the list much more of a pain than necessary (particularly ad infestation for unregistered users and bloatware), plus having gone through various different formats that might be hard to read off.

There are other related websites dedicated to such, including Dohtem's Bugs Bunny Video Guide and Maximizing Bugs Bunny, although they don't necessarily document the best order for getting the shorts available on home media and tend to be outdated. Another mention is the specifications of the home media sets themselves, their contents, and a calculator to see which shorts the person has/are missing, which can be useful for collectors.

This project aims to provide up-to-date information about the Looney Tunes shorts restored on home media, while aiming to be the least intrusive option. Additionally, this website aims to document home media that the shorts were included and provide more formal information about them, all in one place. In the end, this is intended as a hub for collectors to know where to get started and to count their collection as a whole.

It is worth noting that this project has been in development before the shorts were pulled from streaming services such as Max.

What about post-Golden Age (1970-present) material, such as the television shows and movies?

This website is mainly intended for documenting the shorts, particularly of that during the Golden Age (1929-69). Post-Golden Age shorts are documented in a rather limited capacity since they tend to have a much smaller interest to the community than the Golden Age shorts, but still share a similar format to the Golden Age shorts. In recent years, they've also been distributed with the Golden Age shorts on home media.

Television shows and movies are largely out of scope for this project. Most of them are also easily available on home media and/or streaming and for the most part aren't well received compared to the Golden Age material and thus less likely to attract any interest. As a result, I won't be documenting most television shows or movies, and mostly be aiming for the shorts. Television show/movie sets may be documented if they do include shorts, although this is still a limited approach.

Where's the Private Snafu/Mr. Hook/Army shorts?

They are currently out of scope since they're not released in the same theatrical manner as the other miscellaneous shorts, and even in that case they do not have a sizable amount that are officially restored to be worth recording. They're all in the public domain, so you should be able to find them pretty easily, although they often won't be in a restored state.

What do you mean by "unofficial criteria" on some of these shorts?

There have been heavy debate on whether certain shorts can be considered "widely available on home media," particularly from the following releases:

• Releases that aren't available in America but contains English versions of the shorts; this primarily covers I Love Tweety and the Super Stars release of Wascally Wabbit, which all were primarily released in Region 2 and nowhere else.
• Any widescreen cropped prints of shorts originally produced in Academy aspect ratio, which infamously loses the video present at the top and bottom of the shorts. Examples includes the post-1953 shorts in the Hare Extraordinaire and Frustrated Fowl Super Stars sets, and "Little Go Beep" in the Daffy Duck's Quackbusters Blu-ray.
• The bonus cartoons present on non-Looney Tunes home media releases, particularly those from Warner Archive Collection. These shorts are often described by the collectors as "orphan" shorts that have been made available on home media, but have yet to actually be placed on home media related to its franchise. Since they largely span towards several different releases that often has low intrinsic value to those not interested in the movies present on the releases, they are considered "unofficial" for the purposes of this website.

In order to avoid major debacle for these shorts, I have listed them under "unofficial" releases. Depending on who you ask, they may be considered being on home media or not. For completion purposes, I consider "unofficial" releases its own category that can be added with the officially released shorts if you so desire. It is worth noting that non-US VHS/LaserDisc releases or censored releases for unrestored shorts do not fall under this criteria due to low interest in difference or low availability.

Why are the Censored Eleven "restored" even though they don't actually have official releases?

They were actually restored for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in 2010, where eight of the shorts were aired in full. They were originally slated to be released on DVD around the time, but has been pulled due to executive backlash. They do exist, but are currently vaulted.

Why are Fresh Hare, Rhythm in the Bow, and Porky's Midnight Matinee "restored" even though they don't actually have official releases?

"Fresh Hare" was restored during the days of the Golden Collection; footage of the short cropped up on two documentaries that are included as bonus features on future releases: King Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution as part of Platinum Collection: Volume 2 Blu-ray, and in the Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary! as part of the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray. The restoration hasn't been made available in full currently, very likely due to its ending.

"Rhythm in the Bow" and "Porky's Midnight Matinee" were restored in the batch of shorts restored in 2020; they're currently in the hands of private collectors.

Why are you missing this (public domain/Thunderbean) release?

Only official home media releases produced or endorsed by Warner Bros. are included on this website. Grey-market public domain and Thunderbean releases are often produced without authorization or approval from Warner Bros. If you're still interested in these releases, find them at your own risk, but note that they do not follow the same quality standards as Warner Bros. and may be of poorer quality.

Why are you missing this (international, non-English) release?

Any releases that do not feature the shorts in their original English language are not counted here, as the shorts were originally only filmed in the English language in mind and most international dubs are not fully complete towards all 1002 shorts. Some releases may contain audio tracks for different languages (notably the I Love Tweety releases), but they must have English as an option for all shorts included in order to be documented here. Having English subtitles by itself but not English audio do not count.

I tend to primarily only include recent international releases that includes shorts not included in pre-existing US releases. International LaserDiscs and VHSes are still preserved for both archival purposes and due to easy availability of PAL and region-free players, but there's way too many DVDs to list and most are cutdowns of the Golden Collection or related sets and would be heavily redundant to log here.

Where can I find these VHS/LaserDisc/DVD/Blu-ray releases?

For home media still in print (usually most DVDs and Blu-rays), using Amazon, MovieZyng, or GRUV Entertainment (the Universal Pictures Home Entertainment official marketplace) will be able to provide the most reliable listings that will likely give you a legitimate copy. You may also find Warner Home Video releases available in video store retailers near you. Note that Warner Archive Collection releases are only officially sold on Warner Archive's own marketplace on Amazon and a few related online distributors; any Warner Archive releases sold physically in retail are likely counterfeit. For your convenience, Amazon, MovieZyng, and GRUV links are provided on discs that are in print.

For home media that are out of print (such as VHSes and LaserDiscs, both of which are long out of support and obsolete), you're primarily on your own for these. Some of them do crop up on auction sites such as eBay, but they will likely not come cheap. Please beware of counterfeit releases. You may compare with specifications on this website to see if you have a legitimate release, which has largely been a concern in the collector's community. The following are common signs to determine if a disc is counterfeit:

• The image looks a lot more compressed than how you normally see it when aired on TV or streaming services.
• The cover art looks off or completely different from the official release, and the disc did not ship in a proper case (such as a Blu-ray being in a 4K box).
• If this is a DVD, load it on your computer. If the disc is specified as a DVD-9 but your DVD is much less than about 8GB in size, your copy is a counterfeit.
• If this is a Blu-ray, check the bottom of your disc and make sure they're not any other color other than silver (black disc bottoms are a common sign of a burned/counterfeit Blu-ray). If the bottom is silver, your copy is legitimate.

This set with Looney Tunes shorts was announced, can you add it to the site?

Not immediately. Shorts on several home media releases, particularly from Warner Archive, tends to be subject to change when officially shipped. To prevent having to go through the mess of updating several pages when a mistake was found, we only add information once a title has been released and reviews confirm the same titles were kept. Any official Looney Tunes sets are the exceptions, as those rarely change, but we usually don't put them until the shorts are actually announced. Do note that even on officially announced sets, some older sets may still state that shorts are yet to be restored; this will usually be removed if the set actually reaches its street date, as there is history of certain home media sets being pulled or altered before release.

This cartoon has DVNR and/or other miscellaneous errors, why is it not pointed out?

Minor DVNR and/or other non-intrusive errors might not be subject to be pointed out unless they heavily impact the presentation of the short and/or provide notable inaccuracies with how they were presented. Most watchers will generally perceive the shorts under normal circumstances, with "blink and miss" errors that affect a single frame not often to be pointed out. No restoration is made perfect, and I don't have the time and energy to nitpick every little DVNR error a short may have. Any major errors that can easily be observed by a casual viewer are more likely to be pointed out in notes, but currently the only one that can bump a short down to unofficial status is if it is cropped from its originally produced screen ratio.

It is worth noting that while re-restorations can generally be upgrades, they may contain different errors and/or new DVNR depending on the process of how the short was restored. Your mileage will largely vary on whether you prefer an older version of a short as the best version, but for the purpose of this site, the most recent restoration for the HD format are preferred regardless of any minor digital errors.

Does the color backgrounds of the shorts represent something?

They represent the original color rings (or closest colored opening rings background) the short had when it originally released, usually as an indicator for which season each short was in. Due to Blue Ribbon reissues overwriting original title sequences, they might not match the color rings on currently circulating prints of shorts reissued in the Blue Ribbon program.

Will you be doing any other theatrical cartoons, such as Tom & Jerry, MGM, Popeye, etc.?

Currently not in my scope so far.

Comments?

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