Merrie Melodies 1942-43 and more: The Last Year of Difference
With this week’s chapter we’re going to start tightening up our format, listing select titles in order of appearance, irrespective of series banner.
With this week’s chapter we’re going to start tightening up our format, listing select titles in order of appearance, irrespective of series banner.
There were only a dozen Looney Tunes cartoons produced this season… and some of those were now released in Technicolor.
Continuing with the Merrie Melodies for 1942, as the mood sways from the traditional to some periodic patriotic flag-waving.
The 1941-42 season saw Bugs Bunny became the main character at Warner Brothers cartons. Here were the tunes that backed him up.
Carl Stalling continued to fold songs – both old and new – into the scores of the WB cartoons.
The background music in the Looney Tunes during the 1940-41 season, at a time when the world seemed to want comedy – and escapism.
Robert McKimson remains one of the most underappreciated directors in animation history.
The remainder of the 1939-40 Merrie Melodies include titles that crystalize the personalities of two of Warner’s top characters.
The 1939-40 season of Merrie Melodies saw many familiar to us from endless television runs – and, late in the season, one of the most significant cartoons of all.
By the 1939-40 season, a new pattern had now been established – and the use of Warner songs in the cartoons became much more sophisticated.