Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (partially found original title cards for animated shorts; 1930s-1940s)
Original title card for 1946 short "The Mouse-Merized Cat", sourced from a black and white 16mm print.
Status: Partially Found
In April 1943, Film Daily announced that due to World War II, Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. were to re-release previously produced color cartoons to theaters; both to save costs and because Schlesinger was under contract to release 39 reels annually. The printing of these reissues (dubbed "Blue Ribbon" prints from their content) came with the cost of cutting the original main titles from not only the negatives but most other studio masters as well. With the trimming of the titles also came the cutting of credits, leaving several directors, animators, and artists robbed of their proper credit for nearly 80 years. Furthermore, the original opening cues from Norman Spencer and Carl Stalling were also lost in the process.[1]
Not only is recovering these elements important in figuring out just who did what, but it’s also a critical issue in regard to seeing these films the true way they were intended.
Some directors (like Tex Avery) often did gags and unique animation (such as a book opening) in the beginning and end titles. Because of these reissues, several of these unique and clever sequences may be lost to time. Sometimes, reissues would also cut out scenes from a cartoon, such as a tobacco-based gag from "Farm Frolics", or many dated gags from "You're An Education".
In 1956, due to further budget cuts, new reissues would keep their main titles and credits, with only the color rings being replaced (the sole exception being "The Ducksters")
Several reissues in the '60s did not alter the title sequences whatsoever.
The original opening cues for many of the cut titles are known, courtesy of Danial Goldmark.[2]
Reissues which cut the credits (1943-1956)
Original release | Film Title | Availability |
---|---|---|
1935-07-13 | "The Country Mouse" | Lost |
1935-08-17 | "The Merry Old Soul" | Found |
1935-09-07 | "The Lady in Red" | Found (recreated audio) |
1935-10-19 | "Little Dutch Plate" | Partially Found (ending only) |
1935-11-30 | "Flowers for Madame" | Lost |
1936-02-08 | "The Cat Came Back" | Lost |
1936-04-11 | "I'm a Big Shot Now" | Lost |
1936-05-02 | "Let It Be Me" | Lost |
1936-06-27 | "When I Yoo Hoo" | Found |
1936-07-18 | "I Love to Singa" | Found |
1936-08-08 | "Sunday Go to Meetin' Time" | Found |
1936-11-07 | "Don't Look Now" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1937-01-02 | "He Was Her Man" | Lost |
1937-01-30 | "Pigs Is Pigs" | Lost |
1937-03-27 | "The Fella with the Fiddle" | Lost |
1937-05-01 | "Ain't We Got Fun" | Lost |
1937-05-18 | "I Only Have Eyes for You" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1937-07-03 | "Sweet Sioux" | Lost |
1937-07-31 | "Plenty of Money and You" | Partially Found (production cel only) |
1937-08-21 | "A Sunbonnet Blue" | Lost |
1937-09-04 | "Speaking of the Weather" | Found |
1937-09-25 | "I Wanna Be a Sailor" | Lost |
1937-10-16 | "The Lyin' Mouse" | Lost |
1937-11-06 | "Little Red Walking Hood" | Found |
1937-12-18 | "September in the Rain" | Found |
1938-01-01 | "Daffy Duck & Egghead" | Found |
1938-01-29 | "My Little Buckaroo" | Lost |
1938-03-12 | "The Sneezing Weasel" | Lost |
1938-05-14 | "Now That Summer Is Gone" | Lost |
1938-06-11 | "Katnip Kollege" | Partially Found (screenshot only)[3] |
1938-06-25 | "Have You Got Any Castles?" | Partially Found (original opening and ending reinstated) |
1938-05-28 | "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" | Found |
1938-09-24 | "A Feud There Was" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1938-10-08 | "Little Pancho Vanilla" | Lost |
1938-10-22 | "Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1938-11-05 | "You're an Education" | Lost |
1938-11-19 | "The Night Watchman" | Found |
1938-12-31 | "The Mice Will Play" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1939-01-14 | "Dog Gone Modern" | Lost |
1939-02-11 | "Robin Hood Makes Good" | Partially Found (audio only) |
1939-03-11 | "A Day at the Zoo" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1939-03-25 | "Prest-O Change-O" | Lost |
1939-05-06 | "Thugs with Dirty Mugs" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1939-05-27 | "Hobo Gadget Band" | Lost |
1939-07-01 | "Old Glory" | Partially Found (original ending found) |
1939-07-15 | "Dangerous Dan McFoo" | Lost |
1939-09-02 | "Little Brother Rat" | Found |
1939-09-09 | "Sioux Me" | Partially Found (screenshot only)[3] |
1939-10-07 | "The Little Lion Hunter" | Lost |
1939-10-21 | "The Good Egg" | Partially Found (audio only) |
1939-11-04 | "Fresh Fish" | Found |
1939-11-18 | "Fagin's Freshman" | Lost |
1939-12-02 | "Sniffles and the Bookworm" | Lost |
1939-12-30 | "The Curious Puppy" | Lost |
1940-01-13 | "The Early Worm Gets the Bird" | Partially Found (audio only and poor quality photo) |
1940-01-27 | "Mighty Hunters" | Partially Found (the original credits were kept but the color rings were replaced) |
1940-02-10 | "Busy Bakers" | Lost |
1940-03-16 | "Cross Country Detours" | Found |
1940-04-13 | "The Bear's Tale" | Found |
1940-05-11 | "Sniffles Takes a Trip" | Lost |
1940-06-08 | "Tom Thumb in Trouble" | Lost (35mm print known to exist) |
1940-06-22 | "Circus Today" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1940-07-06 | "Little Blabbermouse" | Lost |
1940-07-20 | "The Egg Collector" | Lost |
1940-07-27 | "A Wild Hare" | Found (recreated opening color rings) |
1940-09-28 | "Stage Fright" | Lost |
1940-11-09 | "Wacky Wild Life" | Partially Found (black and white screenshot)[3] |
1940-11-23 | "Bedtime for Sniffles" | Lost |
1940-12-07 | "Of Fox and Hounds" | Partially Found (poor quality photo)[3] |
1941-01-18 | "The Fighting 69½th" | Lost |
1941-02-01 | "Sniffles Bells the Cat" | Lost |
1941-03-01 | "The Cat's Tale" | Partially Found (original production cel in very poor quality)[3] |
1941-03-29 | "Goofy Groceries" | Lost |
1941-04-12 | "Toy Trouble" | Lost |
1941-04-26 | "The Trial of Mr. Wolf" | Found |
1941-05-10 | "Farm Frolics" | Found (WB shield was recreated as it is missing from the raw scan) |
1941-05-24 | "Hollywood Steps Out" | Lost |
1941-06-07 | "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" | Found |
1941-06-21 | "The Wacky Worm" | Lost |
1941-07-19 | "Inki and the Lion" | Lost |
1941-08-30 | "Snowtime for Comedy" | Lost |
1941-09-27 | "The Brave Little Bat" | Lost |
1941-10-11 | "The Bug Parade" | Lost |
1941-11-22 | "The Cagey Canary" | Partially Found (original production cel)[3] |
1941-12-06 | "Rhapsody in Rivets" | Partially Found (original production cel without background)[3] |
1942-01-03 | "Hop, Skip and a Chump" | Lost |
1942-04-11 | "Horton Hatches the Egg" | Partially Found (original production cel)[3] |
1942-06-27 | "Double Chaser" | Partially Found (original production cel)[3] |
1942-08-08 | "The Squawkin' Hawk" | Partially Found (original production cels in very poor quality)[3] |
1942-09-05 | "Fox Pop" | Lost |
1942-10-03 | "The Hep Cat" | Lost |
1942-10-17 | "The Sheepish Wolf" | Partially Found (original production cels)[3] |
1942-11-21 | "A Tale of Two Kitties" | Partially Found (original layout drawing)[3] |
1942-12-05 | "My Favorite Duck" | Partially Found (original production cel, credits cel mismatched with Baseball Bugs)[3] |
1943-02-06 | "Pigs in a Polka" | Partially Found (original production cel, credits cel in very poor quality)[3] |
1943-03-06 | "The Fifth-Column Mouse" | Partially Found (screenshot, original soundtrack found)[3] |
1943-03-20 | "Flop Goes the Weasel" | Partially Found (original production cels)[3] |
1943-04-17 | "The Unbearable Bear" | Partially Found (original production cel, mismatched with a background from My Favorite Duck)[3] |
1943-05-15 | "Greetings Bait" | Lost |
1943-06-19 | "The Aristo-cat" | Lost |
1943-09-11 | "Hiss and Make Up" | Partially Found (original production cel, mismatched with a background from Flop Goes the Weasel)[3] |
1943-10-23 | "Fin 'n' Catty" | Partially Found (original production cels, missing background)[3] |
1943-11-13 | "Inki and the Minah Bird" | Lost |
1943-12-04 | "An Itch in Time" | Lost |
1944-04-08 | "Tick Tock Tuckered" | Partially Found (original credit cel) |
1944-05-06 | "Swooner Crooner" | Found (An original print exists at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Yet to be released publicly.)[4] |
1944-05-27 | "Duck Soup to Nuts" | Lost (An original print exists at UCLA)[4] |
1944-06-17 | "Slightly Daffy" | Partially Found (original production cel)[3] |
1944-08-05 | "From Hand to Mouse" | Partially Found (original production cel)[3] |
1944-09-02 | "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" | Lost |
1944-09-30 | "Lost and Foundling" | Lost |
1944-10-14 | "Booby Hatched" | Lost |
1944-11-25 | "The Stupid Cupid" | Lost |
1945-01-06 | "Odor-able Kitty" | Lost |
1945-02-24 | "Trap Happy Porky" | Found |
1945-02-24 | "Life with Feathers" | Partially Found (black and white screenshots) |
1945-05-19 | "Ain't That Ducky" | Lost |
1945-06-30 | "Tale of Two Mice" | Found (bad quality) |
1945-08-25 | "Fresh Airedale" | Lost |
1945-09-15 | "The Bashful Buzzard" | Partially Found (audio only) |
1945-10-20 | "Peck Up Your Troubles" | Partially Found (original production cel)[3] |
1946-01-05 | "Book Revue" | Found |
1946-02-23 | "Holiday for Shoestrings" | Found |
1946-03-16 | "Baby Bottleneck" | Found |
1946-04-06 | "Daffy Doodles" | Lost |
1946-05-04 | "Hush My Mouse" | Found |
1946-07-13 | "The Eager Beaver" | Lost |
1946-08-17 | Of "Thee I Sting" | Found (black and white) |
1946-08-31 | "Walky Talky Hawky" | Lost |
1946-09-28 | "Fair and Worm-er" | Lost |
1946-10-19 | "The Mouse-Merized Cat" | Partially Found (audio only and one black and white screenshot) |
1946-11-02 | "Mouse Menace" | Found (black and white) |
1946-11-23 | "Roughly Squeaking" | Lost |
1947-01-18 | "One Meat Brawl" | Lost |
1947-01-25 | "The Goofy Gophers" | Lost |
1947-02-15 | "The Gay Anties" | Lost |
1947-03-08 | "Scent-imental over You" | Lost |
1947-04-12 | "Birth of a Notion" | Lost |
1947-05-03 | "Tweetie Pie" | Found (black and white) |
1947-05-17 | "Hobo Bobo" | Found |
1947-06-14 | "Along Came Daffy" | Lost |
1947-06-21 | "Inki at the Circus" | Lost |
1947-07-12 | "Crowing Pains" | Found |
1947-08-23 | "The Foxy Duckling" | Lost |
1947-09-06 | "House Hunting Mice" | Found |
1947-10-04 | "Little Orphan Airedale" | Lost |
1947-10-25 | "Doggone Cats" | Found |
1947-12-13 | "A Horse Fly Fleas" | Found |
1948-01-17 | "Two Gophers from Texas" | Lost |
1948-02-26 | "What's Brewin', Bruin?" | Lost |
1948-03-27 | "Back Alley Oproar" | Found |
1948-04-03 | "I Taw a Putty Tat" | Found |
1948-04-17 | "Hop, Look and Listen" | Found |
1948-05-22 | "Bone Sweet Bone" | Found |
1948-06-26 | "The Rattled Rooster" | Found |
1948-07-10 | "The Shell Shocked Egg" | Lost |
1948-08-07 | "You Were Never Duckier" | Found |
1948-10-09 | "The Foghorn Leghorn" | Found |
1948-10-30 | "Daffy Dilly" | Found |
1948-11-06 | "Kit for Cat" | Found |
1948-12-18 | "Scaredy Cat" | Found |
Reissues which kept the credits (1956-1969)
1948-08-21 | "Hot Cross Bunny" | Found |
1948-09-11 | "The Pest That Came to Dinner" | Found |
1948-09-25 | "Hare Splitter" | Found |
1948-12-04 | "My Bunny Lies over the Sea" | Lost |
1949-01-01 | "Wise Quackers" | Lost |
1949-01-29 | "Awful Orphan" | Lost |
1949-02-26 | "Mississippi Hare" | Lost |
1949-03-12 | "Paying the Piper" | Lost |
1949-03-26 | "Daffy Duck Hunt" | Lost |
1949-04-09 | "Rebel Rabbit" | Lost |
1949-04-23 | "Mouse Wreckers" | Lost |
1949-04-30 | "High Diving Hare" | Lost |
1949-05-14 | "The Bee-Deviled Bruin" | Lost |
1949-06-04 | "Bowery Bugs" | Lost |
1949-06-11 | "Mouse Mazurka" | Lost |
1949-07-02 | "Henhouse Henery" | Lost |
1949-07-16 | "Knights Must Fall" | Found |
1949-07-23 | "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" | Lost |
1949-08-06 | "The Grey Hounded Hare" | Lost |
1949-08-13 | "Often an Orphan" | Lost |
1949-09-03 | "Dough for the Do-Do" | Lost |
1949-09-17 | "Fast and Furry-ous" | Lost |
1949-09-24 | "Each Dawn I Crow" | Lost |
1949-10-15 | "Swallow the Leader" | Lost |
1949-10-22 | "Bye, Bye Bluebeard" | Lost |
1949-11-12 | "For Scent-imental Reasons" | Lost |
1949-11-19 | "Hippety Hopper" | Lost |
1949-12-10 | "Bear Feat" | Lost |
1949-12-24 | "Rabbit Hood" | Lost |
1949-12-31 | "A Ham in a Role" | Lost |
1950-01-14 | "Home, Tweet Home" | Found |
1950-01-21 | "Hurdy-Gurdy Hare" | Lost |
1950-01-28 | "Boobs in the Woods" | Found |
1950-02-11 | "Mutiny on the Bunny" | Found |
1950-02-18 | "The Lion's Busy" | Found |
1950-03-04 | "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" | Lost |
1950-03-11 | "Homeless Hare" | Lost |
1950-04-01 | "Strife with Father" | Found |
1950-04-15 | "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" | Found |
1950-05-06 | "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" | Lost |
1950-05-20 | "His Bitter Half" | Lost |
1950-05-27 | "An Egg Scramble" | Lost |
1950-06-24 | "All a Bir-r-r-d" | Lost |
1950-07-08 | "8 Ball Bunny" | Lost |
1950-07-22 | "It's Hummer Time" | Found |
1950-08-05 | "Golden Yeggs" | Lost |
1950-08-26 | "Dog Gone South" | Found |
1950-09-02 | "The Ducksters" | Lost |
1950-09-16 | "A Fractured Leghorn" | Lost |
1950-10-07 | "Canary Row" | Found |
1950-10-21 | "Stooge for a Mouse" | Lost |
1950-10-28 | "Pop 'Im Pop!" | Found |
1950-11-25 | "Caveman Inki" | Lost |
1950-12-02 | "Dog Collared" | Lost |
1950-12-16 | "Rabbit of Seville" | Found |
1950-12-30 | "Two's a Crowd" | Lost |
1951-01-20 | "A Fox in a Fix" | Lost |
1951-02-03 | "Canned Feud" | Found |
1951-02-24 | "Putty Tat Trouble" | Lost |
1951-03-03 | "Corn Plastered" | Lost |
1951-03-10 | "Bunny Hugged" | Lost |
1951-03-24 | "Scent-imental Romeo" | Lost |
1951-04-07 | "A Bone for a Bone" | Lost |
1951-04-28 | "A Hound for Trouble" | Lost |
1951-05-12 | "Early to Bet" | Lost |
1951-05-19 | "Rabbit Fire" | Lost |
1951-06-02 | "Room and Bird" | Lost |
1951-06-16 | "Chow Hound" | Lost |
1951-06-30 | "French Rarebit" | Lost |
1951-07-14 | "The Wearing of the Grin" | Lost |
1951-07-28 | "Leghorn Swoggled" | Lost |
1951-08-11 | "His Hare Raising Tale" | Lost |
1951-08-25 | "Cheese Chasers" | Lost |
1951-09-08 | "Lovelorn Leghorn" | Lost |
1951-09-22 | "Tweety's S.O.S." | Lost |
1951-10-06 | "Ballot Box Bunny" | Lost |
1951-10-20 | "A Bear for Punishment" | Lost |
1951-11-03 | "Sleepy Time Possum" | Found |
1951-11-17 | "Drip-Along Daffy" | Lost |
1951-12-01 | "Big Top Bunny" | Lost |
1951-12-15 | "Tweet Tweet Tweety" | Lost |
1951-12-22 | "The Prize Pest" | Lost |
1952-01-05 | "Who's Kitten Who?" | Lost |
1952-02-02 | "Feed the Kitty" | Lost |
1952-02-16 | "Gift Wrapped" | Lost |
1952-03-01 | "Thumb Fun" | Lost |
1952-03-29 | "Little Beau Pepé" | Lost |
1952-04-05 | "Kiddin' the Kitten" | Lost |
1952-05-10 | "Sock a Doodle Do" | Lost |
1952-05-24 | "Beep, Beep" | Lost |
1952-06-21 | "Ain't She Tweet" | Lost |
1952-07-05 | "Cracked Quack" | Lost |
1952-08-09 | "Hoppy Go Lucky" | Lost |
1952-08-30 | "A Bird in a Guilty Cage" | Lost |
1952-12-13 | "Fool Coverage" | Lost |
1953-01-03 | "Don't Give Up the Sheep" | Found |
1953-01-17 | "Snow Business" | Found |
1953-02-14 | "Forward March Hare" | Found |
1953-03-14 | "Upswept Hare" | Found |
1953-03-28 | "A Peck o' Trouble" | Lost |
1953-04-04 | "Fowl Weather" | Lost |
1953-04-18 | "Muscle Tussle" | Found |
1953-05-02 | "Southern Fried Rabbit" | Found |
1953-07-27 | "Tom Tom Tomcat" | Found |
1953-08-29 | "Cat-Tails for Two" | Found |
1953-09-19 | "Zipping Along" | Found |
1953-10-17 | "Easy Peckin's" | Lost |
1953-11-14 | "Of Rice and Hen" | Found |
1954-01-02 | "Dog Pounded" | Found |
1954-01-16 | "Captain Hareblower" | Found |
1954-02-27 | "No Barking" | Lost |
1954-03-27 | "Design for Leaving" | Found |
1954-04-17 | "Bell Hoppy" | Lost |
1954-08-07 | "Satan's Waitin'" | Found (black and white) |
1954-09-04 | "Gone Batty" | Found |
1954-10-02 | "By Word of Mouse" | Found |
1954-10-16 | "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z" | Found |
1954-10-30 | "Quack Shot" | Lost |
1955-01-29 | "Pests for Guests" | Lost |
1955-02-19 | "All Fowled Up" | Lost |
1955-03-12 | "Lighthouse Mouse" | Lost |
1955-04-16 | "The Hole Idea" | Lost |
1955-08-20 | "A Kiddies Kitty" | Lost |
1955-11-26 | "Heir-Conditioned" | Lost |
1955-12-31 | "One Froggy Evening" | Lost |
1956-01-26 | "Too Hop to Handle" | Lost |
1956-02-11 | "Weasel Stop" | Lost |
1956-02-18 | "The High and the Flighty" | Lost |
1956-02-25 | "Broom-Stick Bunny" | Found |
1956-03-31 | "Heaven Scent" | Found |
1956-04-28 | "Rabbitson Crusoe" | Found |
1956-05-05 | "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" | Found |
1956-05-19 | "Tree Cornered Tweety" | Found |
1956-06-02 | "The Unexpected Pest" | Found |
1956-06-16 | "Napoleon Bunny-Part" | Found |
1956-08-04 | "Rocket-bye Baby" | Found |
1956-08-18 | "Half-Fare Hare" | Found |
1956-08-25 | "Raw! Raw! Rooster!" | Lost |
1956-10-13 | "Yankee Dood It" | Lost |
1956-10-27 | "Wideo Wabbit" | Found |
1956-12-15 | "To Hare Is Human" | Found |
1957-01-12 | "Tweet Zoo" | Lost |
1957-05-04 | "Cheese It, the Cat!" | Found |
1957-05-11 | "Fox-Terror" | Found |
1957-05-25 | "Piker's Peak" | Found |
1957-06-08 | "Steal Wool" | Found |
1957-06-22 | "Boston Quackie" | Found |
1957-07-06 | "What's Opera, Doc?" | Found |
1957-07-20 | "Tabasco Road" | Lost |
1957-08-10 | "Birds Anonymous" | Lost |
1957-09-14 | "Zoom and Bored" | Found |
1957-09-28 | "Greedy for Tweety" | Lost |
1957-11-30 | "Gonzales' Tamales" | Found |
1957-12-14 | "Rabbit Romeo" | Found |
1958-02-01 | "Hare-Less Wolf" | Found |
1958-03-29 | "Hare-Way to the Stars" | Found |
1958-05-31 | "Now, Hare This" | Found |
1958-08-23 | "Knighty Knight Bugs" | Found |
1958-11-01 | "Pre-Hysterical Hare" | Found |
1959-01-10 | "Baton Bunny" | Found |
1959-02-28 | "Hare-abian Nights" | Found |
1959-06-13 | "Backwoods Bunny" | Found |
1959-08-01 | "Wild and Woolly Hare" | Found |
See Also
- Looney Tunes: By A Hare (lost build of cancelled arcade racing game; 1993)
- Looney Tunes: Laff Riot (found unreleased pitch pilot of "The Looney Tunes Show" animated sitcom; 2009)
- Looney Tunes: Space Race (lost build of cancelled original Nintendo 64 version of Dreamcast/PlayStation 2 racing game; 1998-1999)
- Hare Ribbin' (found original ending of Warner Bros. cartoon; 1944)
- New Looney Tunes "To Catch a Fairy" (partially found unaired Toon City version of Warner Bros animated series episode; 2014)
- Looney Tunes ClickN Read Phonics (found Flash animated internet shorts; 2011)
- Fish Tales (found redrawn colorized version of Looney Tunes short; 1968)
- The Heckling Hare (lost original ending of Looney Tunes short; 1941)
- Porky's Hare Hunt (found redrawn colorized version of Looney Tunes short; 1968)
- The Bugs Bunny Show (partially lost animated TV series; 1960-2000)
- Noël chez Bugs Bunny & Opération Bugs Bunny (found French live-action/animated Christmas TV special; 1997)
- The New Daffy Duck Show (lost pilot script for unproduced animated series; 1997-1998)
- Looney Tunes (partially lost computer colorized versions of shorts; 1990-1995)
- Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies (partially found deleted scenes of various shorts; 1930-1969)
References
- ↑ https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/
- ↑ https://patreon.com/posts/whats-score-81644429
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/gallery
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/checklist