OT: The Looney Tunes Cartoon of Cartoons
Brad Ferguson
compilation claims to include a frame from every one of the 1,002
Looney Tunes cartoons made by Warner Bros. from 1932 to 1964 or so.
You'll recognize many of them without any effort at all, if you grew up
when I did.
Orpheus
Very cool, thanks for that Brad.
I never knew the Looney Tines theme song had words. Now I know.
B. R. Slim
At first I thought this was another post about Roy LIEberman.
busgal
R H Draney
Watching for a couple that should have been very recognizable by their style: I
had no trouble spotting "Now Hear This" but I must have missed "Coal Black An De
Sebbin Dwarfs"....
The switchover from Bosko to Buddy was pretty noticeable, as was the change to
very simplified "IPA style" backgrounds in the late '40s....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
R H Draney
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>On Sep 21, 4:57=A0pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
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>> Watching for a couple that should have been very recognizable by their st=
>yle: I
>> had no trouble spotting "Now Hear This" but I must have missed "Coal Blac=
>k An De
>> Sebbin Dwarfs"....
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>the 1943 identifier.
Good enough for me...I remembered it was either the first or last WB cartoon
released in some calendar year....r
David Samuel Barr
Both the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies themes were pre-existing
songs in the Warner catalogue; they weren't written for the cartoons.
Hence the lyrics, which had nothing to do with any of the later
cartoon subjects, though a couple of cartoons had Daffy Duck sing the
Merry-Go-Round melody with newly written nonsensical lyrics.
"The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Cliff Friend & Dave Franklin
"Merrily We Roll Along" by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher & Eddie Cantor
Gary Edstrom
similar trade names for their cartoons?
Looney Tunes
Merry Melodies
Silly Symphonies (Disney)
Several of those early cartoons would be EXTREMELY politically incorrect
to show these days.
Then there were those propaganda cartoons during WWII.
Gary
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:23:12 -0400, Brad Ferguson <thir...@frXOXed.net>
wrote:
R H Draney
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>Anyone notice how all 3 of the major cartoon series in those days used
>similar trade names for their cartoons?
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>Looney Tunes
>Merry Melodies
>Silly Symphonies (Disney)
Not so odd...the two WB series were originally conceived as ways to promote
songs for which Warner Brothers held the publishing rights....
We now pause to reflect who incredibly appropriate it was that the two original
animators were named Harman and Ising, who later created the "Happy Harmonies"
series at MGM....r
Brad Ferguson
<dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> We now pause to reflect who incredibly appropriate it was that the
> two original animators were named Harman and Ising
Good God. I've gone my whole life without noticing that.
Brian Watson
"R H Draney" <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:i7dmv...@drn.newsguy.com...
Is that Ed Harman? Cos I was thinking that as well as the (now) obvious
sequence, it could be that a credit on a label could read Ising/Harman, E.
--
Brian
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R H Draney
>> original
>> animators were named Harman and Ising, who later created the "Happy
>> Harmonies"
>> series at MGM....r
>
>Is that Ed Harman? Cos I was thinking that as well as the (now) obvious
>sequence, it could be that a credit on a label could read Ising/Harman, E.
It's "Hugh" Harman, which leads to a rather more contrived pun: "I sing harm;
an' you?"...r