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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, Schlesinger and Warner Bros. started re-issuing previously released color cartoons into theaters to save money and because Warner Bros. still wanted Schlesinger to release 39 reels annually. Dubbed "Blue Ribbons" due to their new title cards, these had their titles cut off from their original negatives and other studio masters. With the trimming of the titles, also came the cutting of credits. With the cutting of the credits, several directors, animators, and artists have been robbed of their rightful credits for nearly 80 years. Furthermore, the original opening compositions 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 variants (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 the ending of The Stupid Cupid.
In 1956, due to budget reasons, they kept the credits but replaced the opening and ending color rings with new ones.
Several reissues in the '60s did not alter the title sequences whatsoever.
The original opening cues for many of the titles that were cut are known, courtesy of Danial Goldmark.[2]
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" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
1937-07-03 | "Sweet Sioux" | Lost |
1937-07-31 | "Plenty of Money and You" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
1938-01-01 | "Daffy Duck & Egghead" | Found (recreated) |
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" | Lost |
1938-06-25 | "Have You Got Any Castles?" | Partially Lost (original opening and ending found) |
1938-05-28 | "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" | Found |
1938-09-24 | "A Feud There Was" | Lost |
1938-10-08 | "Little Pancho Vanilla" | Lost |
1938-10-22 | "Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas" | Lost |
1938-11-05 | "You're an Education" | Lost |
1938-11-19 | "The Night Watchman" | Found |
1938-12-31 | "The Mice Will Play" | Lost |
1939-01-14 | "Dog Gone Modern" | Lost |
1939-02-11 | "Robin Hood Makes Good" | Lost |
1939-03-11 | "A Day at the Zoo" | Lost |
1939-03-25 | "Prest-O Change-O" | Lost |
1939-05-06 | "Thugs with Dirty Mugs" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
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) |
1940-01-27 | "Mighty Hunters" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
1940-07-06 | "Little Blabbermouse" | Lost |
1940-07-20 | "The Egg Collector" | Lost |
1940-07-27 | "A Wild Hare" | Found |
1940-09-28 | "Stage Fright" | Lost |
1940-11-09 | "Wacky Wild Life" | Lost |
1940-11-23 | "Bedtime for Sniffles" | Lost |
1940-12-07 | "Of Fox and Hounds" | Lost |
1941-01-18 | "The Fighting 69½th" | Lost |
1941-02-01 | "Sniffles Bells the Cat" | Lost |
1941-03-01 | "The Cat's Tale" | Lost |
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 |
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" | Lost |
1941-12-06 | "Rhapsody in Rivets" | Lost |
1942-01-03 | "Hop, Skip and a Chump" | Lost |
1942-04-11 | "Horton Hatches the Egg" | Lost |
1942-06-27 | "Double Chaser" | Lost |
1942-08-08 | "The Squawkin' Hawk" | Lost |
1942-09-05 | "Fox Pop" | Lost |
1942-10-03 | "The Hep Cat" | Lost |
1942-10-17 | "The Sheepish Wolf" | Lost |
1942-11-21 | "A Tale of Two Kitties" | Lost |
1942-12-05 | "My Favorite Duck" | Lost |
1943-02-06 | "Pigs in a Polka" | Lost |
1943-03-06 | "The Fifth-Column Mouse" | Lost |
1943-03-20 | "Flop Goes the Weasel" | Lost |
1943-04-17 | "The Unbearable Bear" | Lost |
1943-05-15 | "Greetings Bait" | Lost |
1943-06-19 | "The Aristo-cat" | Lost |
1943-09-11 | "Hiss and Make Up" | Lost |
1943-10-23 | "Fin 'n' Catty" | Lost |
1943-11-13 | "Inki and the Minah Bird" | Lost |
1943-12-04 | "An Itch in Time" | Lost |
1944-04-08 | "Tick Tock Tuckered" | Lost |
1944-05-06 | "Swooner Crooner" | Lost |
1944-05-27 | "Duck Soup to Nuts" | Lost |
1944-06-17 | "Slightly Daffy" | Lost |
1944-08-05 | "From Hand to Mouse" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
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" | Lost |
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" | Partially Found (Two black and white screenshots and clip of audio
from a Spanish A.A.P print) |
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" | Lost |
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 (released on Thunderbean: All Sorts of Cartoon Shorts) |
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" | Partially Found (recreated audio) |
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 |
1948-08-21 | "Hot Cross Bunny" | Found |
1948-09-11 | "The Pest That Came to Dinner" | Found |
1948-09-25 | "Hare Splitter" | Found |
1948-10-09 | "The Foghorn Leghorn" | Found |
1948-10-30 | "Daffy Dilly" | Found |
1948-11-06 | "Kit for Cat" | Found |
1948-12-04 | "My Bunny Lies over the Sea" | Lost |
1948-12-18 | "Scaredy Cat" | Found |
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" | Lost |
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" | Found |
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" | Lost |
1953-08-29 | "Cat-Tails for Two" | Lost |
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'" | Lost |
1954-09-04 | "Gone Batty" | Lost |
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 (lost unaired pilot episode of animated series; 2014)
- Looney Tunes ClickN Read Phonics (partially 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 (partially 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)