Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)

This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by Warner Bros. under the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies banners between 1930 and 1939, plus the pilot film from 1929 which was used to sell the Looney Tunes series to Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. A total of 270 shorts were released during the 1930s.

1929

1930

All cartoons are Looney Tunes starring Bosko and are all directed and produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, along with Leon Schlesinger as associate producer. All cartoons are also scored by Frank Marsales, who would score all cartoons through 1932. All cartoons from this year and 1931 are in the public domain.

Directing credits would not be shown for the cartoons until Buddy's Day Out in 1933.

1931

This year marks the debut of the Merrie Melodies series. All Merrie Melodies cartoons are directed by Rudolf Ising, all Looney Tunes until The Tree's Knees are directed by Hugh Harman and Ising and all Looney Tunes cartoons as of Bosko Shipwrecked! are directed by Harman. The directors still remain uncredited however. The cartoons mainly star Bosko, Foxy and Piggy, with the final cartoon of the year being a one shot.

1932

All Looney Tunes cartoons are directed by Hugh Harman, while all Merrie Melodies cartoons are directed by Rudolf Ising, again still uncredited.

1933

As of Buddy's Day Out, the directors are now credited, under the text "Supervision".

1934

This year marks the beginning of production of color WB cartoons, though only for the Merrie Melodies series. The Looney Tunes series remains in black and white until 1942. For this year, most Merrie Melodies cartoons would still be in black and white up until Rhythm in the Bow. All cartoons are under copyright.

1935

All Merrie Melodies cartoons are in 2-strip Technicolor until the end of the year, when the series adopts 3-strip Technicolor as its new color process, starting with Flowers for Madame.

1936

This year, the Merrie Melodies series adopts the iconic bullseye rings in its opening titles alongside a script "That's all Folks!" text starting with I Wanna Play House and later the "Merrily We Roll Along" theme song starting with Boulevardier from the Bronx.

1937

Starting this year, Carl W. Stalling would be the composer on almost every cartoon until To Itch His Own in 1958. The Looney Tunes series also adopts The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down theme song starting with Rover's Rival. Story credits were also implemented for this year, with The Lyin' Mouse being the first cartoon to feature a story credit, however they aren't fully implemented until 1941.

1938

1939

Notes

References

Further reading

• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
• Chuck Amuck : the Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-12348-9
• That's Not All, Folks! by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-39089-5 (Softcover) ISBN 0-446-51244-3 (hardcover)
• Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, Leonard Maltin, Revised Edition 1987, Plume ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (Softcover) ISBN 0-613-64753-X (hardcover)

External links

• Official Looney Tunes site
• Big Cartoon DataBase entry for Merrie Melodies Cartoons and for Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke