Fred avery first bugs bunny cartoon he wouldnt be named until 1941s elmers pet rabbit, which oddly featured a more happy rabbitesque character. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Merrie melodies cartoon directed by chuck jones and written by michael maltese. Early recordings include the composers version on brunswick, paul whiteman on victor, and the california ramblers on columbia. Every looney tunes and merrie melodies ever made 1929. For example, the music sounds sexy and romantic, second, elmer fingers. Pictures between 1931 and 1969 originally produced by harmanising pictures, merrie melodies were produced by leon schlesinger productions from 1933 to 1944. As with its partner series, looney tunes, it featured cartoon characters such as bugs bunny, daffy duck, porky pig, and elmer fudd. The plotline is a mixture of the plots of frank tashlins speaking of the weather 1937, have you got any. Looney tunes book revue opening titles blue ribbon version.
Additional information about the theatrical cartoon book revue. Check out this throwback clip of elmer fudd singing a funny love song about his passion for grilled cheese. Book revue merrie melodies, 1946 scope and content note. Looney tunes and merrie melodies a complete illustrated guide to the warner bros. Marion harris recorded it as a vocal for brunswick, as did billy murray and aileen. A 1945 released in 1946 merrie melodies short subject directed by bob clampett, book revue is a semiremake of the 1938 frank tashlin short have you got any castles. The looney tunes show grilled cheese boomerang youtube. This first act is acted out completely silently, and is very, very silly symphonylike. Looney tunes platinum collection vol 2bdremuxlat identi. As a way of saving time and money, cartoon studios reused animation drawings from earlier shorts in new cartoons. An uncredited mel blanc and sara berner provided the voices. However, pop culture references are up, front, and center this time, along with clampetts trademark. Check out merrie melodies songs from the looney tunes show. And his book is mother goose, which illustrates little miss muffett, jack and jill they meet simple simon at the top of the hill, humpty dumpty, little jack horner his pie also contains the fourand.
Merrie melodies is an american animated series of comedy short films produced by warner bros. Sniffles and the bookworm opens with sniffles taking refuge in a bookshop to escape the winter cold. Wb kids is the home of all of your favorite clips featuring characters from the looney tunes, scoobydoo, tom and jerry and more. Altogether, 1,002 animated theatrical shorts alone were released under the looney tunes and merrie melodies banners from the 1930s through the 1960s. The grilled cheese merry melodies music video contains a lot of sexual innuendo. Blue ribbon merrie melodies the blue ribbon program was initiated in late 1943 as a. The earliest cartoon to be issued first with blue ribbon titles was probably my little buckeroo 1938freleng when the rereleasing program of its back catalogue began in september, 1943.
Looney tunes and merrie melodies series, extending from 1929 through 1969. Aug 25, 2019 approved 8min animation, comedy, family, musical, short 17 april 1931 usa an extremely large old king cole sings his story. The plotline is a mixture of the plots of frank tashlins speaking of the weather 1937, have you got any castles. Parodies and caricatures of harry james, frank sinatra, benny goodman, tommy dorsey, gene krupa, jimmy durante and, in a wild takeoff on danny kaye, daffy launches into a russianaccented version of carolina in the morning, then scatsings his way through the tale of red riding hood with margaret obrien. The blue ribbon merrie melodies rerelease program starts this year. List of looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 2022. A wild hare merrie melodies 19400627, 19440617 as the wild hare supervision. Between 1934 and 1943, the merrie melodies series were distinguished from the black. The classic looney tunes and merrie melodies theatrical shorts have given birth to some of the most recognizable and popular animated characters of all time, including such favorites as bugs bunny, daffy duck, elmer fudd, tweety bird, porky pig and sylvester. This is a new blue ribbon version of the looney tunes cartoon from 1946 book revue. Previous color merrie melodies shorts would be rereleased. For this year and the next, most would still be in black and white. As with its parent series, looney tunes, merrie melodies featured some of the most famous cartoon characters ever created.
Merrie melodies is a series of animated short films produced by warner bros. Parodies and caricatures of harry james, frank sinatra. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on november 14, 2006. Hollywood cartoons similar to or like book revue film looney tunes cartoon short featuring daffy duck, released in 1946, with a plotline that is a mixture of the plots of 1937s speaking of the weather, 1938s have you got any castles. Book revue is among that select nine or ten cartoons from his frantic, 4546 run of masterpieces, and it really feels like clampetts swan song to the prewar cartoon wildness he helped define and master. His fiddlers three turn out to be the three blind mice.
Reissued as a blue ribbon merrie melodies cartoon, retitled birth of a notion, with the ending theme song still being that of the looney tunes cartoon. Looney tunes and merrie melodies cartoons were each assigned identification numbers that would appear directly on title cards shown at the beginning of each short. Merrie melodies depatiefreleng, 19641967 looney tunes format. Parodies and caricatures of harry james, frank sinatra, benny goodman, tommy dorsey, gene krupa, jimmy durante and, in a wild takeoff on danny kaye, daffy launches into a russianaccented version of carolina in the morning, then scatsings his way through the tale of red riding hood. Merrie melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by warner bros. At a certain point daffy duck jumping from a merrie melodies and looney tunes magazine cover dresses himself as danny kaye with a blonde wig.
Rookie revue merrie melodies, 1941 scope and content note. As the literary characters come to life in a bookstore at night, daffy duck sings and dances before being chased by the big bad wolf. This is a list of looney tunes and merrie melodies which were given blue ribbon reissues by warner bros. From the beginning to the present day, 1,039 shorts have been created. The ultimate warner brothers books come to life cartoon. Late in the previous season, warner brothers released a wild hare, the first true bugs bunny cartoon.
This section of miscelooneyous serves as a definitive guide to the looney tunes and merrie melodies shorts that reused animation from earlier films. With mel blanc, bea benaderet, sara berner, richard bickenbach. From the album merrie melodies songs from the looney tunes show. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by frank tashlin.
Inside sniffles encounters the bookworm, whos scared of the little mouse, and asks two book characters, the pied piper and a viking, for help. Merrie melodies 111 looney tunes 87 cartoon rabbit 67 bugs bunny character 65 rabbit 57 animal character name in title 54 breaking the fourth wall 53 anthropomorphism 52 two word title 45 cartoon cat 43 1940s 42 three word title 41 cartoon duck 37 daffy duck character 35 porky pig character 35 cartoon pig 34. The golden collection series was launched following the success of the walt disney treasures series which collected archived disney material these collections were made possible after the merger of time warner which owned the color cartoons released from august 1, 1948 onward, as well as the blackandwhite looney tunes, the postharmanising blackandwhite merrie melodies and. These numbers included cartoon studio production numbers, vitaphone release numbers, blue ribbon rerelease numbers, and mpaa certificate numbers. Actually like many oldest pre1980s tv transfers of looney tunes shorts where they have their original opening and closing title cards axed out particularly the ones from the road runner show, the bugs bunny show and the bugs bunnyroad runner show, many of these merrie melodies show prints from sbt tend to be of very horribly faded quality. African jungle, the natives are going about their day, with the jungle elements being intertwined with modernday elements. It is directed by bob clampett, written by warren foster and scored by carl stalling. Grilling the subject by daryl wood gerber goodreads. Originally produced by harmanising pictures, merrie melodies were produced by leon schlesinger productions from 1933 to 1944. The cartoon was released on january 5, 1946, and features daffy duck the plotline is a mixture of the plots of frank tashlins speaking of the weather 1937, have you got any castles. Parodies and caricatures of harry james, frank sinatra, benny goodman, tommy dorsey, gene krupa, jimmy durante and, in a wild takeoff on danny kaye, daffy launches into a russianaccented version of carolina in the. Every looney tunes and merrie melodies ever made 19291969. Merrie melodies was originally produced by harmanising pictures from 1931 to. Mother goose melodies 1931 animation, comedy, family.
The original card has since been restored by warner bros. However, these characters werent to appear for a number of years after the release of. Blue ribbon blues dereks original title card gallery. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 19401949. Topics old cartoons, vintage cartoons, color cartoons, classic cartoons, censored cartoons, daffy duck. Jul 11, 2012 this places book revue at the end of the world war ii cartoon trends, for these allusions to sex would soon be discarded. The cartoon was released on january 5, 1946, and features daffy duck.
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