This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by
Warner Bros.
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under the ''
Looney Tunes'' and ''
Merrie Melodies'' banners between 1960 and 1969.
A total of 147 shorts were released during the 1960s.
1960
1961
1962
1963
Warner Bros. Cartoons shuts down
1964
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (also known as Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng Productions when involved with the Mirisch brothers and Geoffrey Productions; and DFE Films) was an American animation production company that was active from 1963 to 1 ...
takes over after the 10th cartoon
1965
* All cartoons except ''
Cats and Bruises'' star either Daffy or Wile E. and Road Runner.
* All cartoons directed by Rudy Larriva are produced by Format Productions.
1966
* All Daffy and Speedy cartoons are directed by Robert McKimson.
* All Wile E. and Road Runner cartoons are directed by Rudy Larriva except ''
Sugar and Spies'', which is directed by
Robert McKimson.
1967
* In 1967,
Seven Arts, which had just acquired Warner Bros., brought cartoon production in-house, with
William L. Hendricks
William L. Hendricks (May 3, 1904 – March 29, 1992) was a former USMCR Colonel who was the key figure in setting up the "Toys for Tots" program. Aside from his USMCR career, he also worked in the film industry for many years, initially as a docu ...
as producer and
Alex Lovy as director.
* All cartoons, except for ''Cool Cat'' and ''Merlin the Magic Mouse'', co-star Daffy and Speedy.
* All cartoons produced by Format Productions are directed by Rudy Larriva.
* DFE cartoons are directed by Robert McKimson.
* All cartoons after the fourth one this year are directed by Alex Lovy at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation.
1968
* All cartoons directed by Alex Lovy except
Bunny and Claude
The ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated shorts released by Warner Bros. feature a range of characters which are listed and briefly detailed here. Major characters from the franchise include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fu ...
.
* Blue Ribbon re-releases ended this year.
1969
* All cartoons directed by Robert McKimson. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation shut down in 1969 when
Kinney National Company
Kinney National Service, Inc. (later known as Kinney Services, Inc.) was an American conglomerate company from 1966 to 1972. Its successors were National Kinney Corporation and Warner Communications, Time Warner, AOL Time Warner, and WarnerMedia ...
acquired Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. ''Injun Trouble'' was the final WB cartoon until 1980, when
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ...
reopened its
animation department.
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,
* ''Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist'' by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux,
* ''That's Not All, Folks! My Life in the Golden Days of Cartoons and Radio'' by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, (Softcover) (Hardcover)
* ''Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons'' by Leonard Maltin, revised edition 1987, Plume (Softcover) (Hardcover)
See also
*
Looney Tunes
*
Merrie Melodies
*
Looney Tunes Golden Collection
The ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' is a series of six four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Home Video, each containing about 60 ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' animated shorts. The series began on October 28, 2003, and ended on Octo ...
References
External links
*
* The
Big Cartoon DataBase
The Big Cartoon DataBase (or BCDB for short) is an online database of information about animated cartoons, Feature film, animated feature films, Animated television series, animated television shows, and cartoon Short film, shorts.
The BCDB proj ...
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Merrie Melodies Cartoonsand fo
Golden Age Cartoons' ''The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website'' by Jon Cooke
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