Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection

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Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection
DVD cover
Directed byChuck Jones
StarringHubie and Bertie, Sniffles
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
August 28, 2012 (United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection is a DVD and Blu-ray set featuring cartoons focusing on Hubie and Bertie and Sniffles and featuring various other mouse characters in Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts. It was released on August 28, 2012.[1]

Disc 1

All cartoons on this disc star Sniffles and are directed by Chuck Jones.
# Title Co-Stars Year
1 Naughty but Mice 1939
2 Little Brother Rat* 1939
3 Sniffles and the Bookworm Bookworm 1939
4 Sniffles Takes a Trip 1940
5 The Egg Collector Bookworm 1940
6 Bedtime for Sniffles 1940
7 Sniffles Bells the Cat 1941
8 Toy Trouble Bookworm 1941
9 The Brave Little Bat 1941
10 The Unbearable Bear 1943
11 Lost and Foundling 1944
12 Hush My Mouse* 1946

(*): Original opening, credits, and ending titles restored.

Special feature

Disc 2

:All cartoons on this disc star Hubie and Bertie and are directed by Chuck Jones.

# Title Co-Stars Year
13 The Aristo-Cat* Claude, Hector 1943
14 Trap Happy Porky** Porky, Claude, Hector 1945
15 Roughly Squeaking Claude, Hector 1946
16 House Hunting Mice 1947
17 Mouse Wreckers* Claude, Hector 1949
18 The Hypo-Chondri-Cat* # Claude 1950
19 Cheese Chasers* Claude, Marc Antony 1951

(*): Previously released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection sets or other DVDs.

(**): The original opening, credits, and ending titles have been restored for this release.

(#): The original opening has been restored.

Special features

  • Bonus documentary: "Of Mice and Pen"
  • Audio Commentaries
  • The Hypo-Chondri-Cat storyboard reel
  • 11 bonus cartoons [2]
# Title Characters Director Year
1 The Country Mouse* Beans, Porky Friz Freleng 1935
2 The Lyin' Mouse* Friz Freleng 1937
3 The Mice Will Play* Tex Avery 1938
4 Little Blabbermouse* Little Blabbermouse Friz Freleng 1940
5 Shop, Look, and Listen* Little Blabbermouse Friz Freleng 1940
6 Mouse Mazurka** Sylvester Friz Freleng 1949
7 Mouse Warming Claude, Hector Chuck Jones 1952
8 Mouse-Taken Identity*** Hippety Hopper, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr. Robert McKimson 1957
9 Mice Follies The Honey-Mousers Robert McKimson 1960
10 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House Daffy, Granny, Speedy, Sylvester Friz Freleng 1965
11 Merlin the Magic Mouse Merlin, Secona Banana, Sam Cat Alex Lovy 1967

(*): 1995 DUBBED VERSION

(**): Restored, but Standard Definition for both DVD and Blu-Ray release.

(***): Unrestored, but would later be restored for Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem.

References

  1. ^ "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - 'Mouse Chronicles: A Chuck Jones Collection' on DVD and Blu-ray". 5 August 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Mouse Chronicles coming to DVD and Blu-ray". 9 May 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2013.