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The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a yearly series of four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Brothers Home Video, each containing about 60 Looney Tunes
and Merrie Melodies
animated shorts. The series began in October 2003, with Warners following the lead established by Disney's Walt Disney Treasures DVD box sets by releasing their own animation for the collector's market.

A majority of the cartoons included on the set are uncut, unedited, and digitally restored and remastered from the original successive Technicolor film negatives (or, in the case of the black and white shorts, the original black and white negatives); however, there are some cartoons in these collections that are derived from the "blue ribbon" reissues (altered from their original versions with their revised front-and-end credit sequences), and some that are "dubbed versions" (re-transferred and altered versions by Turner Entertainment).

The DVDs also feature several special features including audio commentaries, pencil tests, and interviews/documentaries of the people behind the cartoons such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Carl Stalling, and Mel Blanc.

Volume 1 (released on October 28, 2003) contains cartoons mostly from the 1950s with a smaller selection of shorts from the 1940s. Popular shorts include The Rabbit of Seville
, Duck Amuck
and Drip-Along Daffy
. Volume 1 contains 56 cartoons, all in color.

Volume 2 (released on November 2, 2004) contains a broader selection of cartoons from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s including What's Opera, Doc?
, One Froggy Evening
, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
, and I Love to Singa
. Volume 2 contains 60 cartoons: 58 color and 2 black & white.

Volume 3 (released on October 25, 2005) contains an even broader selection of cartoons from the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s including such popular shorts as Robin Hood Daffy
, Hillbilly Hare
, and the Academy Award winner Birds Anonymous
. Additional features include three Private Snafu cartoons, a 1963 television show pilot entitled Philbert, and two Harman-Ising era shorts: Sinkin' in the Bathtub
(the first Looney Tunes short ever) and It's Got Me Again, the first WB cartoon nominated for an Academy Award
. Volume 3 contain 60 cartoons: 52 color and 8 black & white.

'Volume 4 not yet released.

Volume 1 primarily focused on cartoons by directors Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. Volume 2 paid tribute to Bob Clampett and Tex Avery. Volume 3 paid tribute to often-overlooked animation director Frank Tashlin.

A Looney Tunes Golden Collection will be released once a year into the foreseeable future.

Along with the release of the Golden Collections, WB also released Looney Tunes Premiere Collections which packaged only half of the cartoons of the Golden Collection'' on two DVDs. This practice stopped in 2005 with Warners Home Video instead releasing the Looney Tunes Movie Collection.

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