Willingham served as sole writer for its entirety, with mark buckingham penciling more than 110 issues. Animation fans will recall that looney tunes shorts originally ran as accompaniments to feature films, in cinemas. Who says cartoons need explosions and intergalactic space travel to entertain. The complete history of hollywood s great studio every warner bros. Download complete looney tunes golden collection dvdrip. Directed by friz freleng, and released by warner bros. Foney fables 1942 merrie melodies theatrical cartoon. Loony tunes collection dvd set all 16 series season. In depth information about foney fables, produced by leon schlesinger studios. Merrie melodies episode guides, cartoon characters and crew lists. The four discs in this collection are devoted to themes and.
Looney tunes allstars, volume 2 gets back to the basics way back. Looney tunes golden collection volume 5 is a looney tunes collection on dvd. Snafu fin n catty foney fables fox pop freddy the freshman fresh hare gas pvt. Whats the story fairytale and folk characters ranging from snow white and cinderella to the big bad wolf and little boy blue are kicked out of their world and now live in a secret pocket of new york city. Foney fables 1942 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Fables is an american comic book series created and written by bill willingham, published by dc comics vertigo. Foney fables wackyland wackyland2looney tunes observations. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and interpreting film. Foney fables is a 1942 merrie melodies short directed by friz freleng. His analysis moves effortlessly from eisensteins and murnaus transition from theatre to film to fritz langs confrontation. Animation fans are going to definitely want looney tunes golden collection, volume five, but, really, this is a set every film fan should have. This enormous, sprawling compilation caters to fans of the series by presenting 356 of the featurettes, toplined by such beloved characters as bugs bunny, daffy duck and.
The aesops fables were a series of animated short subjects, created by american cartoonist paul terry. Wb merrie melodies il libro delle fiabe foney fables 1942. Chronicles the broadcast of the various ltmm shows, and which films aired in which programming packages. Fables was launched in july 2002 and concluded in july 2015. Looney tunes looney toons fresh hare bugs bunny 1942hdfuiaajy48. It is available in its original black and white form on the region 1 release of the film as well as on disc three of the porky pig 101 warner archive collection dvd thanks to fellow member dbear for the information. Foney fables, directed by friz freleng, is a sequel of sorts to tex averys a gander at mother goose 1940, in which both cartoons poke hilarious fun at popular fairy tales and nursery rhymes. For some reason, the 90s turner print of smitten kitten, the 66th tom and jerry short directed by william hanna and joseph barbera had edits on boomerang europe. A dvd featuring all except for the first one, the isle of pingo pongo, which is in the censored eleven and tokio jokio spot gag cartoons was released in 2016. Daffy duck and the dinosaur dvd, 2006 at the best online prices at.
Foney fables is a 1942 merrie melodies cartoon directed by friz freleng. Foney fables looney tunes golden collection volume five disc two looney tunes spotlight collection volume five disc. Cartoons, by jerry beck and will friedwald 1989, henry holt, isbn 0805008942 looney tunes on television by kevin mccorry and jon cooke. For one, they are very familiar stories immortalised by society like jack and the beanstalk and a lot of aesops fables which are in the public domain, so most of the gags would hardly be dated. Volume 1, disc 4 foney fablesvolume 5, disc 2 for scentimental reasonsvolume 1, disc 3 forward march hare. This allows the writer a good advantage of creating timeless gags. Looney tunes collection dvd set all 16 series video. Gac forums archives read only, no posting welcome to the golden age cartoons forums. Trade paperbacks and novels released in the fables series created by bill willingham. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 1940s. Freleng and his animation unit did a heck of a great job with foney fables.
With roughly 1,000 shorts, you might wonder whats available on dvd, bluray, and itunes. They form a secret society, a hidden enclave in modernday new york. Foney fables farm frolics pigs in a polka the wacky worm a day at the zoo. The looney tunes golden collection was a series of six fourdisc dvd box sets from warner home video, each containing about 60 looney tunes and merrie melodies animated shorts. Vecchie favole ripresentato in forma di scenette gag umoristiche e satiriche negli anni di guerra. In film fables jacques ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. This is the complete set of looney tunesmerry melodies that warner brothers released under their golden collection dvd set.
Within the book of fairy tales, we find muchloved stories like these. Free shipping get free shipping free 58 day shipping within the u. This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by warner bros. Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actorturnedwriter howard estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on aesops fables. Berner and blanc also voice merrie melodies foney fables 1942 directed by friz freleng which also serves a gagfilled recounting of severely abridged versions of some of the most popular fairy tales to make for great fun. As gullivers travels comes up for release, we take a look at the top ten fables that were made in the past.
A gander at mother goose already was anything but classic, but foney fables is even worse. The looney tunes cartoons, movies and new looney tunes show have been produced for years. Discuss classic cartoons from the golden age of hollywood. A gander at mother goose is voiced by sara berner, mel blanc, robert c. Take a look and see what others have said about foney fables. Details about looney tunes collection dvd set all 16 series video season cartoon lot complete. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to foney fables. When the adversary conquered the lands of legends, the inhabitants were forced into exile. Quality varies on these, but most were sourced from 16mm film prints or video transfers of same. Foney fables is a spot gag cartoon on fairy tales, very much in the vain of a gander at mother goose 1940, sharing the realistic hand skipping pages of a storybook with the former cartoon. Sleeping beauty chewed out by prince charming for sleeping in, tom thumb, the grasshopper and the ant the grasshopper can afford to be lazy because he has war bonds, the boy who cried wolf, jack and the beanstalk, the wolf in sheeps clothing the fifth columnist of his day. The series featured various other pencillers over the years, most notably lan medina and steve leialoha.
Watch looney tunes season 48, episode 129 foney fables. The listing, vhs cartoon explosion foney fables has ended. One was the nevercredited lenard kester who spent some time in the friz freleng unit in the early 40s and painted these scenes for foney fables 1942. Although terry later claimed he had never heard of aesop, he felt that estabrooks idea was something worthwhile. Fables collected editions series by bill willingham. Part cat, all imagination, check out this character and many more as 20 beloved classics from the. To be specific, this is all the main feature cartoons, with some of the bonus cartoons thrown in for good measure. Thought this thread would prove useful to you looney tunes fans. A total of 307 shorts were released during the 1940s. A life underwater the life story of an 80yearold sea nomad is currently streaming on netflix having won multiple awards, including 4 royal television society awards. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 19401949. For an alternate concept in a spotgag cartoon, nothing could be a better choice of selecting a topic by parodying fairy tales. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on october 30, 2007.
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