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''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes'' is a series of 5-disc laserdisc and 10-tape VHS box sets released by MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment. Five volumes were released on laserdisc, but only the first volume was issued on VHS. The VHS tapes were also available for individual sale. Every cartoon that Turner owned the rights to was eventually released as part of one of these sets, with the exception of 11 cartoons not seen since 1968 due to racial stereotypes - these are often called the Censored Eleven. At the time this series was released, Turner only had access to faded 16 mm television prints; since then, Time Warner acquired Turner, and some of the shorts released here have since been reissued by Warner Home Video, often in restored versions. ==Volume 1== The first volume of the set, ''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes'' was released on December 11, 1991 on laserdisc. Due to potentially-offensive material in the cartoon ''Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips'', later sets were released with that short replaced by ''Racketeer Rabbit'', which was also released on Volume 3. The first volume contains 70 animated shorts from 1931 through 1948 (1933-1948 on the cover). Each side of the first volume's discs contains animated shorts fitting a particular theme or category - this arrangement is used in all five volumes of ''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes''. Each side was also released on VHS as ten separate volumes *Side 1, 1930's Musicals, featured several early entries in the ''Merrie Melodies'' series. Music played an integral part in each cartoon on this side. *Side 2, Firsts, featured debut cartoons for several major characters. One featured cartoon, ''Daffy Duck and Egghead'', technically, was the first Daffy Duck cartoon in color, and the first where the character actually has that name. This was used because Turner did not own the rights to ''Porky's Duck Hunt''. *Sides 3 through 6 were each dedicated to cartoons from one of the following directors: Tex Avery (side 3), Bob Clampett (side 4), Chuck Jones (side 5) and Friz Freleng (side 6) *Side 7, Bugs Bunny by Each Director, was one of two Bugs-centric sides on the first volume. It featured at least one Bugs Bunny cartoon from each director that did at least one between 1940 through July 1948. Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson and Frank Tashlin each contributed one entry, while Friz Freleng contributed two. *Side 8, 1940's Zanies, featured several character-driven cartoons from the 1940s. *Side 9, Hooray For Hollywood, was dedicated to cartoons in which show-business itself played a major part. Many cartoons on this side featured caricatures of notable celebrities of the time. *Side 10, The Art of Bugs, was the other Bugs-centric side on the first volume. All three Cecil Turtle encounters are on this side, as are the debuts of Beaky Buzzard and Marvin the Martian. Another notable cartoon is ''The Old Grey Hare'', which is famous for its end gag involving the title card. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Golden Age of Looney Tunes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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