Looney Tunes (partially lost computer colorized versions of shorts; 1990-1995)
In 1968, 78 Looney Tunes shorts were sent over to South Korea to be redrawn in color to air on television. These were very poorly done, and near the end of the 1980s, Warner Bros. decided to create new colorizations of the black and white shorts using computer colorization,[1] a method of colorization where a black and white print was scanned frame by frame and given color, this method had started to be used by Ted Turner in the 1980s on live-action movies such as Casablanca. The first batch of colorizations were created in 1990, a second in 1992, and a third in 1995. All the 78 shorts that were redrawn in the 1960s were computer colorized in the 1990s, as well as 24 more shorts, such as Bob Clampett's masterpiece, Porky in Wackyland, making a total of 102 computer colorized shorts. 99 of which were aired, except for three unaired shorts, Robinson Crusoe Jr. (previously had a redrawn), Scrap Happy Daffy, and Confusions of a Nutzy Spy. The computer colorizations were aired on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and are still currently aired occasionally on Boomerang. However, some shorts had their redrawn versions still shown instead, such as Porky's Railroad.
Availability
Some computer colorized shorts can be found on two Looney Tunes VHS tapes, Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses, and Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside. Some shorts were also released on DVDs, though not officially, such as the 2007 DVD of the 1940 movie The Fighting 69th, which contains Pilgrim Porky. Some shorts have not been found in computer colorized form yet such as the public domain short Porky's Ant. A member of Archive.org has published an archive of the found shorts here. There is also a Discord server link for those interested in finding the computer colorized shorts.
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Colorized Version Comparisons
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)
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (partially found original title cards for animated shorts; 1930s-1940s)
- 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 and Merrie Melodies (partially found original title cards for animated shorts; 1930s-1940s)