The First Looney Tunes Title. The Second Title with Honey and Bosko. In the beginning, both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies drew their storylines from Warners vast music library. From 1. 93. 4 to 1. Merrie Melodies were produced in color and Looney Tunes in black and white. Some Looney Tunes series were produced in color for a test experiment from 1. After 1. 94. 3, however, both series were produced in color and became virtually indistinguishable, with the only stylistic difference being in the variation between the opening theme music and titles. Both series also made use of the various Warner Bros. By 1. 93. 7, the theme music for Looney Tunes was The Merry Go Round Broke Down by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of Merrily We Roll Along by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor. In 1. 92. 9, to compete against Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse short cartoons, WB became interested in developing a series of musical animated shorts to promote their music. They had recently acquired the ownership of Brunswick Records along with four music publishers for US 2. Consequently, they were eager to start promoting this material to cash in on the sales of sheet music and phonograph records. Warner made a deal with Leon Schlesinger to produce cartoons for WB. Schlesinger hired Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising to produce their first series of cartoons. Bosko was the first major Looney Tunes lead character, debuting in the short Bosko, The Talk Ink Kid in 1. The first Looney Tunes short was Sinkin in the Bathtub, which was released in 1. From 1. 93. 71. 93. Looney Tune except for two ended with Porky Pig coming out of a drum and saying th th th thats all folks The reason the years are split was because Porky was redesigned for the newer drum ending. Color version of the closing drum featuring Porky Pig in 1. When Harman and Ising left Warner Bros. Schlesinger, they took with them all the rights of the characters and cartoons which they had created. A new character called Buddy became the only star of the Looney Tunes series for a couple of years. New directors including Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett were brought in to work with animators in the Termite Terrace studio. In 1. 93. 5 they debuted the first truly major Looney Tunes star, Porky Pig, along with Beans in the Merrie Melodie cartoon I Havent Got a Hat directed by Friz Freleng. Beans was the star of the next PorkyBeans cartoon Gold Diggers of 4. Porky who emerged as the star instead of Beans. The ensemble characters of I Havent Got a Hat, such as Oliver Owl, and twin dogs Ham and Ex, were also given a sampling of shorts, but demand for these characters was far exceeded by Beans and Porky Beans himself was later phased out due to declining popularity, leaving Porky as the only star of the Schlesinger studio. Download Movie Destino Dvd. This was soon followed by the debuts of other memorable Looney Tunes stars Daffy Duck in 1. Porkys Duck Hunt, Elmer Fudd in 1. Elmers Candid Camera, and Bugs Bunny in 1. A Wild Hare. Bugs initially starred in the color Merrie Melodies shorts and formally joined the Looney Tunes series with the release of Buckaroo Bugs in 1. Leon Schlesinger. Schlesinger began to phase in the production of color Looney Tunes with The Hep Cat. The final black and white Looney Tunes short was Puss n Booty in 1. Frank Tashlin. The inspiration for the changeover was Warners decision to re release only the color cartoons in the Blue Ribbon Classics series of Merrie Melodies. Bugs made a cameo appearance in 1. AveryClampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1. Porky Pigs Feat which marked Bugs only appearance in a black and white Looney Tunes short. Schlesinger sold his interest in the cartoon studio in 1. Warner Bros. and went into retirement he would die 5 years later in 1. The original Looney Tunes theatrical series ran from 1. Injun Trouble, by Robert Mc. Kimson. 1 During part of the 1. De. Patie Freleng Enterprises after Warner Bros. The shorts from this era can be identified by their different title sequence, featuring stylized limited animation and graphics on a black background and a new arrangement, by William Lava, of The Merry Go Round Broke Down. The change in the introductory title cards was possibly to reflect the switch in the animation style of the shorts themselves. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in the intro to The Bugs Bunny Show, which ran on network television from 1. The Looney Tunes series popularity was strengthened even more when the shorts began airing on network and syndicated television in the 1. However, since the syndicated shorts target audience was children and because of concerns over childrens television in the 1. Looney Tunes shorts were edited, removing scenes of violence particularly suicidal gags and scenes of characters doing dangerous stunts that impressionable viewers could easily imitate, racial and ethnic caricatures particularly stereotypical portrayals of blacks, Mexicans, Jews, American Indians, Asians, and Germans as Nazis, and questionable vices such as smoking cigarettes, ingesting pills, and drinking alcohol. Theatrical animated shorts went dormant until 1. Looney Tunes to a new generation of audiences. New Looney Tunes shorts have been produced and released sporadically for theaters since then, usually as promotional tie ins with various family movies produced by Warner Bros. While many of them have been released in limited releases theatrically for Academy Award consideration, only a few have gotten theatrical releases with movies. The most recently released Looney Tunes short was Daffys Rhapsody in 2. Journey 2 The Mysterious Island. In the 1. 97. 0s through the early 1. Bugs Bunny andor Daffy Duck, with a mixture of new and old footage. In 1. 97. 6, the Looney Tunes characters made their way into the amusement business when they became the mascots for the two Marriotts Great America theme parks Gurnee, Santa Clara. After the Gurnee park was sold to Six Flags, they also claimed the rights to use the characters at the other Six Flags parks, which they continue to do presently. The New Looney Tunes: Rabbit Run Movie© 2017