Looney Tunes

[Brian Harrington]

Wow, I've never seen those. Probably not many sold. Only 100 feet, so they snipped a minute or 2 off.

It seems like it would have been a no-brainer to release a nice range of LTs and MMs on Super 8 sound as done with Tom & Jerry. It must have been an issue where WB didn't want to license them for the home market. AAP probably felt the same way. Other than the PD ones, none seemed to have been issued in their original form in the U.S.

[Osi Osgood]

It might surprise some, but I actually collect the occasional 16mm Looney tune, but only those that for some odd reason, never seem to be seen today, for instance "Bedeviled Bruin", one of Chuck Jones hilarious Bear family cartoons. For some odd reason, this one has rarely been seen in this day and age, still rare to this day, but I secured a nearly never projected IB Tech 16mm print, at first, as a possible candidate for a super 8 release. 😀

[Brian Harrington]

It was released on Blu-ray last year. Also airs on Boomerang. https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/...-Deviled_Bruin

Can be watched right now:

16mm prints of LT/MMs go for big bucks, even if beet red.

[Ken Finch]

I have just one” Merrie Melody” which I picked up second hand some years ago at a film fair. It is in a plain white box but mounted on a blue plastic reel Rodox Color Texnik which I suspect was the original distributor. I do not remember having projecting it, probably because it needs new leader and I forgot about it!!

[Brian Harrington]

The ebay gods must be reading all this, since suddenly I've seen more listed lately than previously. Most are from non-US though, with shipping costs higher than I would even pay for the film.

Some nice Red Fox LPPs of M-G-Ms (Tex Avery), and in the U.S., but still pretty expensive. I didn't know Red Fox released those. I wish Kodak would have realized how bad Eastman color stock was a decade earlier.