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Their first animated film for Schlesinger, Sinkin’ in the Bathtub (1930), featured Bosko, a wide-eyed character that bore an uncanny resemblance to Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat
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Harman and Ising left Warner Brothers in 1933, but they left behind a staff that included some of the foremost directors, animators, and story men of the day.
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In the 1950s the Warner Brothers animation studio—most notably in films directed by Jones—returned to the original Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies model of making music a fixture of the story line.
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Warner Brothers shuttered the Termite Terrace in 1963, but the Looney Tunes brand remained a profitable one.
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The Great American Chase (1979) and The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) were compilations of classic Warner Brothers cartoons tied together with the loosest of plots.
