Classic cartoon fans never had it as good as they did in the first decade of the twenty-first century. From approximately 2001-2008, the most prominent home video companies opened their vaults and shared riches with the unsuspecting public with high-profile animation collections with literally hundreds of cartoons.
Shortly before the big economic bust, DVD sales began to dwindle, and the vault doors closed. Warner Home Video still occasionally tosses fans a bone and Steve Stanchfield’s Thunderbean Animation label has more than picked up the slack in releasing the ‘unimportant’ public domain gems, but there are still droves of great cartoons in limbo.
Most of the accepted masterpieces from the Warner Bros. cartoon library have been released (and then some) in the prolific Looney Tunes Golden Collection line, the subsequent Blu-Ray releases, and even as bonuses with classic live-action features.
Here’s a list of the ten best Looney Tunes cartoons that you won’t find on any ‘legal’ release in the digital era.
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Shortly before the big economic bust, DVD sales began to dwindle, and the vault doors closed. Warner Home Video still occasionally tosses fans a bone and Steve Stanchfield’s Thunderbean Animation label has more than picked up the slack in releasing the ‘unimportant’ public domain gems, but there are still droves of great cartoons in limbo.
Most of the accepted masterpieces from the Warner Bros. cartoon library have been released (and then some) in the prolific Looney Tunes Golden Collection line, the subsequent Blu-Ray releases, and even as bonuses with classic live-action features.
Here’s a list of the ten best Looney Tunes cartoons that you won’t find on any ‘legal’ release in the digital era.
Read more »