Parodies and caricatures of harry james, frank sinatra, benny goodman, tommy. These numbers included cartoon studio production numbers, vitaphone release numbers, blue ribbon rerelease numbers, and mpaa certificate numbers. With mel blanc, bea benaderet, sara berner, richard bickenbach. Watch book revue from looney tunes on video previous cartoon next cartoon. I personaggi protagonisti della serie animati regolari della warner bros sono conosciuti come i looney tunes o looney. 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. From the beginning to the present day, 1,039 shorts have been created. An uncredited mel blanc and sara berner provided the voices. In 1986, the cartoons changed hands when mgms premay 1986 film library was acquired by turner entertainment. The definitive bugs bunny cartoon and tex averys masterpiece. Looney tunes and merrie melodies 1941 dell comic books.
As with its parent series, looney tunes, merrie melodies featured some of the most famous cartoon characters ever created. Considering how much this has in common with the style of later wb cartoons, and that there are later released cartoons where bugs and elmers personality and appearance are less similar to their final versions, it almost seems like this cartoon came out of nowhere. Watch looney tunes book revue zaza cartoons on dailymotion. From 1938 to 1946, these are the only looney tunes and merrie melodies shorts you really need to understand what this cartoon series is all about. Looney tunes and merrie melodies series, extending from 1929 through 1969. If you like warner brothers cartoons, then this is the book to get.
Whats the difference between a looney tune and a merrie. Book revue 1946 looney tunes theatrical cartoon series. Looney tunes and merrie melodies series, extending from 1929 through the present. Lets honour bob clampetts birthday with an incredible scene from book revue. The film uses two of johann strauss best known waltzes, tales from the vienna woods and the blue danube. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 194049. It is directed by bob clampett, written by warren foster and scored by carl stalling. This places book revue at the end of the world war ii cartoon trends, for these allusions to sex would soon be discarded.
Every single looney tunes and merry melodies cartoon is here, with indepth description, several indexes including one by characters and loads of promotional ad flats and lobby card reproductions. Bobs book revue with images old school cartoons, bob books. A tiny elephant emerges from a banana boat and wanders about town, causing an uproar among the populace. Synopsis for the theatrical cartoon book revue book. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography wikipedia. Looney tunes book revue opening titles blue ribbon. 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. Looney tunes bookstore animation the worlds greatest book. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Frank sinatra is the sicklyblue singer in a wheelchair on the cover of voice in the wilderness.
Book revue warner brothers looney tunes baby bottleneck warner brothers looney tunes. The best looney tunesmerrie melodies cartoons imdb. Altogether, 1,002 animated theatrical shorts alone were released under the looney tunes and merrie melodies banners from the 1930s through the 1960s official and 2 cut downs. Daffy emerges from the cover of a looney tunes merrie melodies comic and proceeds to completely steal the cartoon away from all the witty book parodies. The second looney tunes bookstore video, book revue is a looney tunes cartoon short featuring daffy duck, released in 1946. We dont know if that means the public or the exhibitors favored the color product over the black and white, but, thats what the numbers show. Many of the merrie melodies are actually the cartoons treasured by those who say that the classic looney tunes are their favorites. Jan 30, 20 looney tunes book revue love looney tunes. Merrie melodies was originally produced by harmanising pictures from 1931 to. Charles laughton as henry viii transforms into henry aldrich, the teenage character on the popular radio program. Draftee daffy warner brothers looney tunes aint that ducky warner brothers looney tunes nasty quacks warner brothers merrie melodies 1946. Altogether, 1,002 animated theatrical shorts alone were released under the looney tunes and merrie melodies banners from the 1930s through the 1960s. 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. Complete looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 1929.
Ever the showman, daffy opens with a danny kaye impersonation followed by the highlight of the cartoon, a phenomenal scat version of the little red riding hood story. They perform a parody of disneys silly symphony cartoon series and specifically his 1940 feature fantasia. Merrie melodies was originally produced by harmanising productions from 1931 to. In my younger days i would have stopped right there. Book revue complete soundtrack daffy duck and ensemblewarner bros. The stupid cupid warner brothers looney tunes 1945. Looney tunes book revue love looney tunes looney tunes. Book revue is a 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. This is a listing of the shorts, feature films, television programs, and television specials in warner bros. From the wartime era, to the birth of new characters such as bugs bunny, elmer fudd and tweety bird, to the birth of postschlesinger looney tunes characters such as pepe le pew, foghorn leghorn, yosemite sam, sylvester, wile e. Another difference was that melodies were shot in color starting in 1934, while tunes stayed black and white. Mgm gained the rights to the cartoons when they bought united artists in 1981. Bugs bunnys allstar cartoon revue trailer looney tunes.
Because of time warners purchase of turner entertainment and turner broadcasting in 1996, warner bros. Merrie melodies also featured warner songs, but where tunes had regular characters, melodies for the most part were oneshots, without continuing characters. I looney tunes sono una serie cortometraggi animati per il cinema prodotta dalla warner bros. 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.
Book revue is a looney tunes cartoon short featuring daffy duck, released in 1946. Harry james is the trumpeter on the cover of young man with the horn. Watch book revue from looney tunes on video theatrical. Early characters exclusive to the series included foxy, piggy and goopy geer, and since the 1940s it would primarily include bugs bunny, porky pig, foghorn leghorn or tweety bird, though it would also include characters like daffy duck on. The ultimate warner brothers books come to life cartoon.
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. The merrie melodies title, with its antiquated spelling and lack of anarchic snap, is largely disregarded today, even though it persisted up until the last days of. This is a new blue ribbon version of the looney tunes cartoon from 1946 book revue. A corny concerto is a 1943 american animated short film of the merrie melodies series starring bugs bunny, porky pig, elmer fudd and daffy duck. New patterns emerge for the 193839 film season, there were about twice as many merrie melodies produced in color as there were looney tunes in black and white.
Merrie melodies was the sister series to looney tunes that ran from 1931 to 1969, starting off as cartoons based on whatever songs were popular in the day. On cartoon network barring its appearance on the bob clampett show and boomerang, the scene of daffy and the wolf running into the book uncle toms. However, pop culture references are up, front, and center this time, along with. The package was later acquired by united artists in 1958. 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 dover boys at pimento university 1942 remastered hd 1080p duration. This is a list of looney tunes and merrie melodies animated shorts that were in the associated artists productions television package. Sightings are attributed variously to mass hysteria, insanity and dipsomania. Merrie melodies is a series of animated short films produced by warner bros. While chuck jones and friz freleng are more wellknown, clampett was responsible for some of the most surreal and insane cartoons at warner bros.