# Warner Bros. cartoon questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583 "2005-12-29T16:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583/21 "2005-12-31T14:10:52Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Don’t all local stations have copies of the originals? What are those copies on, tape? How hard is it to convert a high quality tape to digital format then to DVD? > I could do it on my computer in a matter of hours. But it wouldn’t be as good a quality as the DVD. The difference between the old television prints and the DVD prints is night and day. The third volume actually shows how the restoration works- they actually use an original Technicolor print of the film (three strips- red, green, and blue), then they scan that into a computer. Then they are able to remove any imperfections that may be on the print (dust specks, etc.) using a special software program. Very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583/22 "2005-12-31T15:24:42Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I just wish they had done the DVD collections when Chuck Jones was still with us. It would have been nice to have his commentary on the discs. I remember seeing Chuck Jones on _Later_ with Bob Costas. Costas was usually a very good interviewer on that show, and could draw a lot out of a person; but this one wasn’t very good. I have endless respect for Chuck Jones; I’ve read one of his books and even have a framed pencil sketch of the Grinch, but I think almost all of his talent went into making the cartoons, and not so much into talking about them. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583/23 "2005-12-31T23:05:56Z")
Although the directors have all died, Michael Barrier did record interviews with them which he plays excerpts of during his commentaries. It’s not the same thing as actually have them doing the commentaries, of course, but it’s as close as we’re going to get. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583/24 "2005-12-31T23:08:48Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > 1. Tweety is given a jet-propelled cage by his (her?) little-old-lady owner Tweety’s a boy, so the “his” is correct. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583/25 "2006-01-01T02:07:39Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > I believe that’s _Bugs Bunny’s Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary_, which appears as one of the bonus features on the _Golden Collection Vol. Two_ DVD. And I think WB is doing a terrific job with the Golden Collection sets. Sure, they haven’t released _everything_ yet, but the three volumes released to date have been packed with classics–which cartoons could you possibly ditch to make room for the ones mentioned here without someone then complaining that _those_ ones were missing? Come on, they’re horribly disappointing. My favorite of its most trivial flaws is the merchandise-style, out-of-character mugging the characters are drawn up to do in the menus. It’s completely out place for a DVD collectors set (look at Disney’s Treasures for an example of how a animation fan’s collectors set should be done. All character art is perfectly in character, even angry Donald’s). What I like about it is that such mugging is lambasted on the very disc in the commentary of the aniversary short bonus (I don’t remember the name of the short, it’s the one with the behind-the-scenes bloopers - Blooper Bunny, maybe?). I think a much more relavant catagorizing of the shorts would be by director, since each one had an instantly recognizable style; and then in chronological order (or maybe not. There’s alot of fat to cut in the WB library that a “best of mix” might be preferable than chronological). Also, they could have offered at last official re-releases of the long censored, racially and culturally insensitive shorts, like Disney was bold enough to do, instead of only the same shorts we’ve all been able to see over and over again for the past fifty years on TV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warner-bros-cartoon-questions/337583.md?page=1)