What’s That Title Cue?
Just what music did Carl Stalling originally use for the Looney Tunes main title sequences, long-since removed on the Blue Ribbon reissue prints. Here’s an attempt to answer that question.
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Sing Me A Cartoon 3: More Mickey Mouse
By 1929, the Mickey Mouse shorts had attained a theme song – a deliberately corny, purposefully rustic opus called “Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo”.
The Forgotten Cult of “Marty the Monk”
Boyd La Vero’s cartoon studio is one of the most obscure – and it produced some of the strangest of these often-strange early 30s animated films.
“Betty Boop’s Penthouse” (1933) – and “Frat”
Here’s a cartoon perfect for Halloween Eve – and, it turns out, there’s another “needle-drop” here taking up a good part of the cartoon’s soundtrack.
Needle Drop Soundtracks In Iwerks Cartoons
Ub Iwerks seems to have had a regular working relationship with RCA Victor. As we will see, Victor records seem to permeate Iwerks’ scoring – – at least for a while.
Hector the Pup in 35mm!
Yesterday was a film transfer day, taking up the late morning into early afternoon. They’re some of my favorite experiences in putting together the DVD (and now Blu-ray) sets because…
The Merrie Melodies Theme: “Merrily We Roll Along”
Editor’s Note: Will Friedwald is back this week to fill us in on a tune familiar to all cartoon lovers everywhere: Before we begin, Will Friedwald and I wish…
