Fine Tooning: Restoring the Warner Bros Cartoons
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- From the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs. This looks at how they were restored from original film print negatives and laserdiscs. Shows off the wear and tear that got fixed up.
This is uploaded for the purpose of education for the viewer on the history of this piece of animation. I do not own this, and if the Warner Brothers wants it taken down then I will take it down.
It's especially nice to get the full WB orchestra's sound restored. YT has some session recordings with Carl Stalling to listen to that are mind boggling (at least to me.) Sadly, they are audio only but it slays me how Stalling's "click track" method was used. These musicians were playing a score timed to the "click track" to perfectly coincide with the accompanying animation. In other words, the music was recorded separately and, through the use of the "click track," each frame in the cartoon was perfectly matched to the music. These people were geniuses.
These classic cartoons look jaw-dropping beautiful on blu ray. High definition makes a huge difference.
yes! and the DVDs already look incredible. If you like this, I have more looney tunes features like this that I could upload
From what I’ve seen, it looks like WB used a Spirit 4K scanner to bring these cartoons into the digital arena.
I didn't think something like this would ever exist but I'm happy that it does exist now
I think the entire collection should be restored and made available to the general public. With someone like Jerry Beck supervising this project, there’s no way it could fail.
Warner Bros. Presents
“Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Collection”
Directors: Tex Avery, Friz Freling, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Greg Ford, Terry Lennon, Douglas McCarthy & Chuck Jones
Head Writers: Tedd Pierce, Warren Foster & Mike Maltese
Music Direction: Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn, John Seely, George Daugherty, Cameron Patrick, Bill Lava, Richard Stone & James Newton Howard
Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg, Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bergman & June Foray
Project Supervisor: Jerry Beck
Project Consultants: Linda Jones Clough, Ned Price, George Feltenstein
Restoration Editor: Rick Gehr
Image Restoration: Warner MPI, Reliance MediaWorks
Restoration Colorist: Mike Williams
Audio Restoration: WB Sound Stages
Special Thanks: Warner Bros. Archives, Linda Jones Clough, Noel Blanc, Eric Goldberg & Sam Register
When these were made the WB studio heads regarded these as an extra. I wonder what they’d think if they knew these are now regarded as one of America’s greatest cultural artifacts?
Everything mentioned here in this mini documentary is still true! We want all the cartoons, all the big studios represented and restored. The trouble is that the major companies can no longer afford to do the job themselves, but they refused to allow outside help. I think they should allow this help because there are probably people there that would do this project out of love for the cartoons. thus it is a labor of love. I think them, that’s far, for what they were able to do. We have seen some marvelous restorations, removal of blue ribbon title cards and restoration of the original titles, and all that stuff is very very important to us. The only thing I can add is that it’s too late to stop now! Let’s not shut down physical media, but expanded to include niche audience like ours. and if some of this work has to be farmed out to those smaller video companies who might like to release them more than the companies that owns them, why not? these cartoons don’t need to fall into the public domain in order to see the light of day.
Having a lot of the cartoons shortened by the “Blue Ribbon” titles feels like blasphemy in my opinion.
The soundtrack restorations are not always because for various of the pre-1948 shorts they ended up using the turner 1995 dubbed version’s soundtrack, which were already kinda restored anyway
I've been a huge fan of Loony Toons my whole life and I snatched up those DVDs as soon as I could!
That's a marvel. The computer era has done so much for photographic preservation, music preservation, everything else, and in this case both.
It was a magic constellation of Carl Stalling, Mel Blanc, and Chuck Jones, that could never happen again.
As a body of work, the Warner Bros. cartoons are the most satisfying, the characters the most iconic. It's incredible that the Warners themselves didn't appreciate them (Jack Warner once famously said "All I know is we invented Mickey Mouse," but then none of the studio moguls cared much about their cartoon units), but fortunately the fans and the restorers do.
Would love to find a complete copy of one of my all time favorites, Hareless Wolf.
Now the challenge is bringing these classics into the HD arena.
"We preserve everything!
...except for the Censored Eleven and other stuff, that is."
Those are definitely preserved, but they aren’t widely distributed by Warner brothers. Some of them are already public domain and the others will be entering the public domain in the coming decades. That freedom of copyright restriction will greatly increase their circulation and preservation projects. And ideally further knowledge and education on why the shorts are referred to as the “censored eleven” in the first place and give more historical context about them.
Here we go "folks"! It's so amazing and full of chasing after undefeatable heroes memories, to find out how our unforgettable animated stars will be fully restored. Stay safe everyone!
Restored. NOT edited! They are great just how they were made! Do not rape my childhood!
our family has a long Looney Tunes history from the very beginnings - look forward to seeing what you accomplished
Currently The Warner Bros.™ Cartoons were Restored for MAX™
As They're Streaming On Max™
As For Home Entertainment Releases
Unfortunately, a lot of these old cartoons have gone missing from Max™️ recently. I might have to issue a complaint to them about this.
@@darthkurlandoh,so for some reasons
That means Classic Cartoons Arén't Streaming Anyways?
@@ramiroezequielnoriega2599 not all of them, I’m afraid.
Does Will Not Have Availability to Watch Classic Cartoons?
I love the classic Looney Tunes. They always make me laugh. 😂
can you please upload Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes?
4:40 open matte looney tunes or merrie melodies cartoon intro
That's not the open matte version of the intro; which has the WB shield smaller in size and the text surrounding it also had their sizing adjusted accordingly (if you see any 1960's shorts that use that WB cartoons intro, it's most likely using that version of the intro)
@@AndrewsMagicandMore i kinda said that because of the round film corners
Are these the original cartoons, uncensored and complete?
As far as I know, they are.
Did they use their Spirit 4K scanner to bring the Looney Tunes into the digital realm?
Not back then since this was the late 90s/early 2000s
@@seandudley556 though the Golden Collection versions of the Looney Tunes cartoons were supposedly remastered for HD in mind.
@@AndrewsMagicandMorethat’s a good point.
@@seandudley556even though that scanner can be seen at 4:40.
9:19 | What's the name of the cartoon?
"Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears" (1944)
Zachary Noah
Thank you.
I need this collection. Did every cartoon get restored?
i'm pretty sure they've restored almost every short in existence by this point. the main issue is actually releasing them since there's 1000 shorts and it took them 6 years and 6 volumes of the golden collection just to get like 300
There are some that haven’t been touched yet.
Seems to me a bit of a waste to go through all the trouble and expense to restore old cartoons, only so that modern audiences can be triggered and have them all banned.
Modern audiences will grow up and appreciate them in a new light. Today's political correctness will fade but these classics never will.
@@RobHoffman83 _"Modern audiences will grow up and appreciate them in a new light. "_
Let's hope so.
...only a small fraction of the shorts are banned. like a fraction of a fraction. they still show a majority of them on MeTV and Boomerang.
I’m okay with them being shown as long as there’s some kind of disclaimer about the content so that today’s audiences can understand.
Restore visually, great. What worries me, is in the search of woke, dialogue is altered so no offense could be taken. And so ruine the biting satire.
The post-Schlessinger era MM and LT cartoons are worthy candidates for restoration, but those of the Schlessinger era that *did not* feature the "familiar characters", and those black & white Harmon & Ising cartoons should be *DITCHED!*
That’s a subject for debate. Would having a disclaimer about the content in front of those shorts be acceptable? It just wouldn’t make any sense to pretend that they never existed.
@@darthkurland A *disclaimer* would be useful for some post-Schlesinger cartoons that had "questionable" content, but the Schlesinger-era and Harmon & Ising early works are of such poor quality, even in their own time, that they are *simply not worth wasting any time over restoring them.*
@@neilforbes416 I’m just saying that the Looney Tunes collection isn’t really complete without those shorts.