The BIRTH of BUGS BUNNY and LOONEY TUNES
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- Leon Schlesinger, a producer who had no previous experience in cartoon animation, founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.
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Best cartoons, ever! What I now appreciate was the two levels of humor in the cartoons, the slapstick humor for kids and the humor geared more to adults, like showings caricatures of then current movie stars, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Edward G. Robinson, etc. It was only after I was an adult that I saw the humor and understood who these characters were. I never tired of watching WB cartoons. Who can forget the “Rabbit of Seville”, a cartoon classic? What outstanding talent these cartoonists had. Of course, these cartoons were made even better by the man of 1,000 voices, Mel Blanc. Together, they were the Golden Age of Cartoons.
As a kid I watched Looney tunes now as an adult I still watch Looney tunes.
Anyone watching Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, as kids, in the 60's, remembers the great producers and animators. Thank you for the interesting back stories about them.
I think a mention could be made of the great Mel Blanc, who voiced virtually all of the characters and gave them life.
Lastly, I would like to add that I was also a big fan of Max Fleischer's Popeye, in Black & White, with the opening and closing ship's door at the beginning.
Mel Blanc could be an entire episode himself. The "Man of a Thousand Voices" also did Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg, and Willy the Weasel 😁
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I agree
He was also the voice of Jack Benny's car and the bear that guarded his vault
Absolutely!
Leon Schlesinger was a distant relative of studio chief Jack Warner and his three older brothers Harry, Albert, and Sam (who died in 1927). Like Warner, Schlesinger was known for his hard-nosed business practices. On one occasion, he boycotted the Academy Awards for what he claimed was preferential treatment for Walt Disney. Besides cartoons, he produced six B-movie westerns for Warner Bros., all starring John Wayne before he rose to fame as an A-list star, thanks to the success of the movie Stagecoach.
When I was a kid every Saturday started out with the looney tunes, overture, curb the lights and let's get going.
Yeah, Me too! I was just interested in when the cartoons would start on their adventures, and really didn't appreciate the opening credits, thinking they were just there to annoy us kids.
And a bowl of Crunch Berries or Fruit Loops?
Wait a minute, wasn't it "overture, curtain, lights, this is it, we'll hit the heights, and oh what hieights we'll hiiiiit, on with the show, this is it?"
Thanks for the video. I have Mel Blanc's autobiography and Chuck Jones' autobiography. Mr. Blanc told a story about the first time Daffy appears in "Porky's Duck Hunt". Tex overheard Mel making fun of Leon who had a very slight lisp. They decided to use that voice for Daffy. To keep from getting fired, they sped up the playback and raised the pitch of the voice. Leon loved it! Chuck does not have many kind things to say about Leon. His opinion is that Leon sold the cartoon library to pay off gambling debts. The reason that Tex, Bob C, Bob M, Friz, and Chuck were able to be so creative is because they were left alone and could do anything as long at they made cartoons that would sell.
I know this video was about the animators at Termite Terrace, but I am sad there was no mention at all of Mel Blanc. Warner Bros cartoons couldn't have done all that they did without Mel Blanc.
I'm a Baby Boomer. Bugs Bunny cartoons were a big part of my childhood.
You are right on. I thought the same thing myself. Friz himself said none of it would have come together without Mel. ❣️❤️
Exactly!
I grew up watching Bugs Bunny cartoons with my grandpa. I still love them. I have always loved Looney Tunes much more than Disney. Bugs was the blue collar everyman (or bunny). And the comedy was more for adults while Disney seemed more for younger children. A little too tame and white bread for me
HD Looney Tunes look great.
You bet they do!
Bugs bunny is my favorite character. 😀👍🐰
47 years old and still watching cartoons
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I loved these cartoons when I was growing up in the '60's and '70's!
A big part of my preteen and teenage life. Watching these cartoons was always a complete escape to laughter land.
I grew up with these cartoons and I still watch them when I get the chance.
Looney Tunes were something I grew up with and were always something later in life to bring me a whole lot of comfort when I had troubles in my life. Porky Pig voiced by Mel Blanc was one of my favorites of all of them. Loved the stuttering, pantsless porcine fellow, always will. Th' d, th' d that's all folks!!
I used to watch Looney Tunes in Japan in the 60s and still remember many of the episodes.
Saturday morning cartoons need to come back.
They have 7AM-10AM Eastern on ME TV.
@@mmi16 yes. Seen those classics. I wish the networks again created new material. Kids of today deserve it.
I love little mini documentaries like this please keep up The good work
Looney toons and merrie melodies were the ABSOLUTE BEST EVER . I don’t think anyone can ever produce their equal…certainly no one today is coming close!!!
The old Tom and Jerry and Flintstone cartoons by Hanna-Barbera were also excellent.
The old black and white Popeyes from the 1930’s (Fleischer Studios) remained popular for decades.
What Bugs brought to the game was a product that could be enjoyed by kids and adults, alike, because of the multidimensional nature of the character. Genius !
Tweety was based on Red Skelton's "mean widdle kid".
Amazing the increasing value of animation cells that were tossed away by all these great animators...I own a few bought in the 80's and they have appreciated greatly. I value having gotten to meet Chuck Jones at a gallery once....
Robert Clampett looked like Clark Kent from the Superman tv show (George Reeves)
The hour of Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies every Saturday morning on ABC in the 80s
For more information about Looney Toons and how they developed, please see film critic and historian Leonard Maltin's excellent book "Of Mice and Magic." The book contains a plethora of historical information concerning the formation of the cartoon studios of the golden era - including Disney, MGM, and Warners. It's a well-researched book, containing many photographs - a must-have for any animation fan.
As a kid in the 1990s when i was watching looney tunes i was a fan of Bugs Bunny, Sylvester The Cat, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety and The Road Runner.
I liked Bugs Bunny a whole lot because of how he got away with allot of what he did and especially in the way he'd always outsmart Elmer Fudd.
You left out Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg !!
That was the funniest damned rooster - I still find him hilarious to this day.
Every Warners Brothers cartoon is epic...not a bad one in the whole batch!
There was a full-length feature film a good while back called "Bugs Bunny, Superstar" and they spent a lot of time talking with Bob Clampett. It was in this film that he claimed to have created Bugs!
I love animation art. I have a pretty decent collection of cels. One of my favorites is an original pencil drawing by Chuck Jones of Sniffles. Cost me more that any other in the collection.
My favorite Bugs cartoon is "Bushy Hare," the one with Nature Boy. I fall off the chair every time I watch it! I also love the one with the Gremlin. "You gotta hit these block buster bombs just right...."
Cartoons by adults for adults. Gotta love it! That's why I also love all the Ward/Scott cartoons. Primo stuff!
You could do a whole film on the soundtrack music they employed: I remember going to see Puccini's "The Thieving Magpie" at the Frankfurt Opera and as soon as the overture started, we all immediately recalled the image of Bugs Bunny tiptoeing through a garden.
Wow! Omgosh! All these wonderful, Very Funny cartoon characters have Always been a Huge part of my Childhood and current life that always make me very happy and still laugh it up everyday. Thank you for sharing your video. Wow! I never knew the story of the beginning.
...and who could ever forget "This time we didn't forget the gravy." said at the end of "Chow Hound"
How can you talk about Warner Brothers cartoons without mentioning Mel Blanc? (I do like your videos)
I totally agree. Mel is the one who gave them the personalities we love.💓
When I was a little Kid I was a Fan of 6 looney tunes characters Sylvester, Tweety, Porky, Daffy, Road Runner and Bugs Bunny
Looney Tunes Big Three Characters DOB & first cartoon:
-Porky Pig (3/2/35) “I Haven’t Got A Hat”)
-Daffy Duck (4/17/37) “Porky’s Duck Hunt”)
-Bugs Bunny (4/30/38) “Porky’s Hare Hunt” (As Happy Rabbit), (7/27/40) “A Wild Hare” (As Bugs Bunny)
Oh wow man, Beany & Cecil! Haven't thought of them in decades, they were primo Saturday TV fare, you'd switch the channel from anything to watch those.
Was there a dog named Farful? Wasn't the sponsor Buster Brown Shoes? ("I'm Buster Brown, I lived in a shoe. Here's my dog Tige, he lives in there, too!")
Clampett was known for his surrealist style and the craziest shorts of the looney tunes with distored characters in some frames inspired by the surrealist paintings of Salvador Dali
Beanie and Cecil, WOW, miss them so much, loved them as a Kid.
I used to watch repeats in my 20s (it didn't hurt that the presenter was an attractive girl). They were on in the afternoon and this was the era of videotape so I recorded the shows and watched them later. I recall one episode where Porky is chasing an unwanted dog throughout his home. It seemed that Porky had a very long hallway. Something caught my eye so I rewound and froze that tape. In just one frame there was a cartoon nude! in another episode Speedy is singing in Spanish. My mother can understand Spanish and laughed. i asked her what he was singing.Something like "no fumar marihuana" Which I assume you can figure out. I suspect there were lots of such (for want of a better term) Easter eggs in the cartoons. My favourites were Bugs & Marvin.
Rabbit/Duck Hunting Season.
Walt Disney's distribution agreement with RKO-Radio didn't begin until 1937. Before that, his cartoons were released through United Artists, starting in 1932, after three years of Columbia releases; they got Charles Mintz to replace him (after a pay dispute, he previously signed most of Walt's staff behind his back to continue producing "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" in 1927-- Universal dumped his unit for Walter Lantz two years later, so Mintz eventually signed with Columbia).
Yosemite Sam was my favorite...ya carn sarn varmit!
Brilliant cartoons bugs was my favourite!
Mel Blanc did EVERY single voice except for one- Granny who was done by June Foray In my single years growing up I watched the Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Show on Saturday afternoons My favourite character was and always be Marvin the Martian
I recently saw looney tunes shorts from the mid 1990’s. I did n’t know Warner Brothers was still producing shorts by that time ( thought they discontinued the shorts in the 50’s or 60’s)
No mention of Mel Blanc
Didn't seem fair, did it?🤔🙄
Bugs Bunny and Friends was my generation's SpongeBob
Daffy Duck is Squidward
At 8:43, the original song had Cecil say "a whole half hour".
You have some confusion here in that some or the exterior stills of what you referred to as "Termite Terrace" which show portions of the water tower were shot on the lot at Burbank. When Warner Brothers acquired First National Pictures and their Burbank Lot in 1927 all feature production was moved ther, with The Jazz Singer (1927) being the last feature filmed at the original 1923 WB lot at Sunset and Gower. The Animation Department stayed at Sunset until the 1960's when the original lot was sold. Termite Terrace was at the old studio, which is now The Sunset Studios and also home to KTLA TV and Radio.
Cartoons today just seem to preach to children, while these were just so damn funny and enjoyable, the primary reason for their staying power.
I love watching the looney tunes classics especially bugs bunny
So, Tex Avery started at Walter Lantz's Studio and left due to a salary dispute. By coincidence, he ended his cartoon shorts career in the mid 50's at Walter Lantz's Studio where he worked for just a year and made four cartoons. Why did he leave? Salery dispute.
I love Looney Tunes
Thanks for sharing this 👍♐♐♐♐
Yes
Marvin & Bugs!
Cartoons Would Never Be The Same Without LOONEY TUNES
My 6 Favorite Looney Tunes Characters are Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Tweety, Road Runner, Daffy Duck And Porky Pig
The Coyote (Wile E.) was the reason the Road Runner cartoons were so funny … He also was hilarious when he went up against Bugs.
Sylvester And Tweety Were my Favorites along with Daffy and Porky and Bugs Bunny
Technically, Pepe Le Pew’s first appearance was Odor-Able Kitty.
Did anyone ever really like those "Bosko" cartoons? Uck.
What a bunch of great unforgettable cartoon characters these guys eventually came up with. Probably
only real rival was the insane Popeye character, which originated from the comic pages before becoming an animated personality!
Hard to pick, but I think I'd have to go with Daffy Duck as my favorite cartoon character. Best cartoons?--again hard to pick, but maybe the Road Runner series of shorts.
There was a clip of Porky Pig I'm sure that was censored. He hit his thumb with a hammer and exclaimed, "Son of a bee uh, bee uh, bee uh, bee uh, gun!" Then he looked at the audience and said, "Thought I was gonna say, 'Son of a b***h", didn't, ya?"
Pepe Le Pew's debut film was "The Odor-able Kitty" in 1945, not "For Scent-imental Reasons."
Loved it
11:47 thxs your using are video next time can you credit us tho please
interesting
actually pepe le pew debuted in odor-abble kitty in 1945 and for scent- imental reasons was released in 1949
“Schlesinger” is pronounced “SchlesinJer”. If you listen to the dialogue tracks on ANY of the early Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons, EVERY TIME Leon’s name is mentioned, no matter which character said the Producer’s name, it was ALWAYS pronounced “SchlesinJer”.
I hear an accent I can't ever not hear again, sir, would you happen to be from Philadelphia?
8:00 i always thought tweety bird was female since he acts sweet and outside of spongbob i havent seen eye lashes on male chararcters.
Uh....Mel Blanc?
Foghorn leghorn!!!!!
1. "For Scent-imental Reasons" was not the debut of Pepe Le Pew, a character that debuted four years earlier.
2. Friz Freleng did not create Speedy Gonzales(which funny you didn't even mention Robert McKimson at all during the video)
3. "Ubi" Iwerks and "Knightly Knight Bugs", interesting mis-pronunciations.
these are among the more egregious errors in this video.
Back in the 70's, when it would rain like cats and dogs, we'd turn the Warner Bro cartoons on silently, while listening to Rock and Roll, throw a 'doctored-up', frozen pizza in the oven, make mango daiquiris or strawberry margaritas and have a great day of staycation.
"Sles-in-ger " "Frizz" not Fritz. "Ub" Iwerks is pronounced like bub I works.
Please note that Freleng's nickname is Friz, not Fritz.
Leon Schlesinger’s Pacific Art And Title company did more than the opening and closing titles for movies. In the silent era, they made “dialogue” titles for SILENT movies. Disney was focused on REALISM in his animation. Walter Lantz was originally distributed by Winkler, and was hired to make Oswald The Lucky Rabbit cartoons when Winkler FIRED Walt Disney. Michigan J. Frog never had a name until Chuck Jones made up the name during a telephone interview with a reporter in the late 1950’s. And Bob Clampett was a friend of mine. You are NO Bob Clampett. Beany and Cecil started as a live, local PUPPET SHOW on KTLA Los Angeles, starring Daws Butler as Beany and Stan Freberg as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent. You can look ALL THESE THINGS UP. THEY ARE ALL TRUE. When are you going to start getting your facts straight?
The best of Warner cartoons came during the 1950s, long *after* Schlesinger was gone...... And good riddance to him! Schlesinger's Merrie Melodies output in the 1930s and 1940s was soppy, saccharine-sweet and sickening, where several of the familiar characters *did not appear!*
It's pronounced FRIZZZ Feleng, NOT "FriTZ"!!!
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I love Looney Tunes