Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection

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Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection was the second Looney Tunes home video collection from Warner Home Video. It was the only home video collection in which the black-and-white cartoons were featured in their said original presentation (until the Looney Tunes The Collector's Edition VHS tapes came out), and also marks the home video debut for the black and white cartoons. Originally released on nine videos in 1985 with three additional tapes released in October 1986.

Each tape began with a newly animated sequence in which the police are chasing the Tasmanian Devil (who ironically did not have a spotlight video in this collection, though only one of his cartoons on a motorcycle ("Bedevilled Rabbit") appears on only one of the VHS tapes in this collection (A Salute to Mel Blanc)). Taz drives his bike through a theater in which Bugs, Daffy and Porky are on stage with many characters marching across the stage behind them, akin to the beginning of The Bugs Bunny Show (complete with a few instrumental bars of "This Is It" accompanying the scene). The animated sequence ends with a red-and-white WB shield as seen in the classic shorts emerging as Taz drives through the scene.

Some prints of the cartoons in these videos are time-compressed (sped-up from their original speed). These titles include "Porky's Duck Hunt", "You Ought to Be in Pictures", "The Wearing of the Grin", and "Dough for the Do-Do" on the Daffy Duck and Porky Pig tapes. The reason behind the time compression for these four cartoons are due to space restrictions in the VHS tapes at the time, especially due to the longer running time for "Porky's Duck Hunt" (8 minutes, 50 seconds) and "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (9 minutes, 45 seconds).

Time Life Video offered a mail-order set of Looney Tunes tapes during the early 1990s. It was called The Looney Tunes Library, and consisted of the Looney Tunes Video Show, Golden Jubilee and Cartoon Cavalcade tapes. Some of these tapes were packaged with different artwork than the versions offered in stores. Time-Life Video no longer offers these sets.

Key

(*): Cartoons that have not been restored or as of yet been added on DVD or Blu-ray (though most of them have since been made accessible on Max (formerly HBO Max) and other streaming services).

(**): Time-compressed cartoons.

Releases

Cover	Title	Shorts
	A Salute to Mel Blanc	"Robin Hood Daffy" "Bedevilled Rabbit" "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" "Ballot Box Bunny" "Past Perfumance" "Little Boy Boo" "Who's Kitten Who?" "Rabbit of Seville"
	A Salute to Friz Freleng	"Birds Anonymous" "High Diving Hare" "Speedy Gonzales" "A Mouse Divided" "Bunker Hill Bunny" "Show Biz Bugs" "Greedy for Tweety" "Knighty Knight Bugs"
	A Salute to Chuck Jones	"Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" "For Scent-imental Reasons" "One Froggy Evening" "Rabbit Seasoning" "High Note" "Feed the Kitty" "Zoom and Bored" "What's Opera, Doc?"
	Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures	"Long-Haired Hare" "Bunny Hugged" "The Grey Hounded Hare" "Roman Legion-Hare" "Hare Do" "Bully for Bugs" "Ali Baba Bunny" "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!"
	Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues...	"Duck Amuck" "The Daffy Doc" "Beanstalk Bunny" "Deduce, You Say" "Rabbit Fire" "Drip-Along Daffy" "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Porky's Duck Hunt" (**)
	Porky Pig's Screwball Comedies	"Curtain Razor" "Boobs in the Woods" "Often an Orphan" "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (**) "The Wearing of the Grin" (**) "Mouse Wreckers" "Cracked Quack" "Dough for the Do-Do" (**)
	Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase	"Fast and Furry-ous" "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" "Operation: Rabbit" "Hook, Line and Stinker" "Zip 'n Snort" (*) "Ready, Woolen and Able" (*) "Beep, Beep" "To Beep or Not to Beep"
	Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers	"Tweet and Lovely" (*) "Tweety and the Beanstalk" "Tree for Two" "The Last Hungry Cat" "Mouse-Taken Identity" "Tweety's S.O.S." "Canned Feud" "Hyde and Go Tweet" (*)
	Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies	"The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" "Tortilla Flaps" "Cat-Tails for Two" "Cannery Woe" "Lumber Jerks" "Gonzales' Tamales" "Here Today, Gone Tamale" "Tabasco Road"
	Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers	"Rabbit of Seville" "Hare Brush" "Design for Leaving" "Bugs' Bonnets" "What's Opera, Doc?" "Cat Feud" "What's Up Doc?" "Rabbit Seasoning"
	Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies	"Lovelorn Leghorn" "The Foghorn Leghorn" "Plop Goes the Weasel!" "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" "Leghorn Swoggled" (*) "Feather Dusted" (*) "A Fractured Leghorn"
	Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales	"Scent-imental Romeo" "Past Perfumance" "Really Scent" "Odor of the Day" "Who Scent You?" "Much Ado About Nutting" "The Cats Bah" "For Scent-imental Reasons"

Notes

• The Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote, and Speedy Gonzales tapes received the RIAA Certified Gold Video Award and consistently performed well on Billboard's Top Videocassettes and Top Kid Video sales charts.
• All the cartoons on the Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote tape are directed by Chuck Jones.
• Some of the cartoons in the video collections have colored borders, or black ones, around their opening titles (although the end titles have no borders at all). These colored borders are not seen on later home video releases since the late-1980s (even if the cartoons have borders around the opening titles the colors are limited to black only). Some of these video prints from this collection even turned up on Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Tooncast airings since 1997, although some European networks may use the 1998 dubbed versions while networks in the Americas usually use these prints.
• Most of these cartoons from this collection (along with cartoons coming from the Looney Tunes Video Show and Cartoon Cavalcade tapes) are time-compressed to PAL speed when shown on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in USA and on Tooncast in Latin America (despite being in NTSC countries). This may have been for time, although the airings of pre-1948 cartoons air at NTSC speed despite pre-1948 cartoons generally running longer than post-1948 cartoons.
• To tie in with these releases, the following events took place:
  • Museum of Modern Art put together an exhibit called “That’s Not All Folks! Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee”.
  • Bugs Bunny received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  • Six Flags introduced Looney Tunes characters to their chain of theme parks.
  • Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video produced a TV special titled “The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary”.
• The transfer of "Tweet and Lovely" from the Sylvester and Tweety tape was later reused for the Looney Tunes Presents: Tweety: Tweet & Lovely VHS release in 1999.

An example of a colored border appearing around the opening titles of most of the cartoons of this collection. Taken from "Rabbit Seasoning" (1953) from the Bugs Bunny tape in this collection, as seen on a Boomerang USA airing of such cartoon.