Almost Complete Collection Wartime WB

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6 is out with all kinds of great features and most but not all of the Schlesinger / Warner Bros. war cartoons.



My favorite is the Martha Sigall commentary on the Schlesinger Christmas parties. I have had lots of this footage from other sources but not with Martha listing the names and tell in the inside stories behind all of her coworkers.

Another killer feature is Russian Rhapsody (Gremlins from the Kremlin) in a beautiful print. Mark Kausler does a great job identifying the studio likenesses of the Gremlins on the commentary track.

Now to what is missing. This is the disk that has the war cartoons and they make a big statement about war propaganda and how important to history it is to show these films as they were originally shown even if they are no longer Politically Correct. And then they leave out films like Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips and Coal Black and de Seban Dwarfs.

Okay, Coal Black is not really about the war, it only deals with war time themes and Tokyo Jokio is dated and unfunny but Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips is prime war propaganda and is left off this disk solely because of a fear of offending. Even after their big disclaimer to the contrary they are ashamed of the Bugs Bunny Seven and refuse to release them to the public. It is good to be ashamed of the racist past of our country. But burying the evidence of the crime is still the act of the guilty.