Terminology Glossary

• AAP shorts: Also known as the pre-1948 package, refers to a package of 337 shorts that was sold to Associated Artists Productions in 1956. Consists of every Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies except for "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!" and every color cartoon from "Honeymoon Hotel" up to "Haredevil Hare".
• Censored Eleven: Refers to eleven shorts in the AAP package that was withheld from television distribution in 1968 from their current owner at the time, United Artists.
• Cheater short: Essentially what is considered as clip shows nowadays; shorts that largely recycle footage from previous cartoons as the framing device, often for budget reasons.
• Double dip: Releasing the same print of a previous transfer onto a different disc, resulting in basically getting a (usually unnecessary) copy of the short.
• DVNR: Digital voice noise reduction, a process that removes grain and dirt from film as it is transferred to digital media or tape. While it is effective on live-action segments, it often leads to a loss of details on animated releases due to being mistaken as grain or dirt. This process is rarely used in most recent releases, but were commonplace during early DVD and Blu-ray releases. Animation historian (and common commentator during the Golden Collection) Amid Amidi has an article describing more about DVNR.
• LTCC: Looney Tunes Collector's Choice
• LTCV: Looney Tunes Collector's Vault
• LTGC: Looney Tunes Golden Collection
• LTPC: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection
• LTSS: Looney Tunes Super Stars
• Post-1948 shorts: Refers to the package of shorts that Warner Bros. was able to keep after shipping the rights of previous shorts to other companies. Consists of every cartoon starting from "You Were Never Duckier", including post-Golden Age shorts.
• Post-Golden Age: Refers to content that was released or created after the cartoon studio shut down in 1969. Conversely, Golden Age by itself refers to content from 1929-69.
• Remastering: The process of technically updating the film to fit modern standards, but not necessarily cleaning up the film to match up to theatrical standards. Considered unrestored for the purpose of this website.
• Restoration: The process of repairing and returning the film to be as close to the original theatrical release, fixing issues frame by frame alongside managing any color fades on the film print.
• Sunset shorts: Refers to a package of 192 shorts that was sold to Sunset Productions in 1955. Consists of all black-and-white cartoon except for most of the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies.
• Twelve Missing Hares: Refers to twelve Bugs Bunny shorts that was withheld from being aired on the June Bugs marathon on Cartoon Network in 2001 that aimed to air every Bugs short (and his prototype shorts) from "Porky's Hare Hunt" to "From Hare to Eternity".
• "Unofficial" releases: Sets that are not classified by this website as an "official" release despite being released by Warner Bros., see the About page to learn more.
• V#: Volume #