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Looney Tunes is an American media franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The franchise began as a series of animated short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, alongside its spin-off series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising were an American animation team and company known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios. In 1929, the studio was founded under the name Harman-Ising Productions, producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Leon Schlesinger from 1930 to 1933. [1]
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation.One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films.
Harman and Ising started the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons in 1930 and 1931, respectively (Harman would direct the Looney Tune shorts), and produced them until 1933. Following a number of clashes with Schlesinger over budgets, they decided to leave WB and look for another distributor. [ 6 ]
By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin, and the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of "Merrily We Roll Along" by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor [10] (the original theme was "Get Happy" by Harold Arlen, played at a faster tempo).
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts ; produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation; The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970); with David Paradine Productions and London Weekend Television; Crescendo (1970) Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970); with Hammer Films
Jeff Bergman is one of the actors who has continued Blanc’s legacy, voicing signature Looney Tunes like Bugs and Daffy, as well as such vintage Hanna-Barbera characters as Mr. Spacely, for ...
The remaining black-and-white Merrie Melodies shorts made from 1933 to 1934 and the black-and-white Looney Tunes shorts were not included in the library as the TV rights were sold to Guild Films in 1955. [18] Former Warner cartoon director Bob Clampett was hired to catalog the Warner cartoon library. Warner Bros. retained the ancillary rights ...