Looney tunes back in action (80)

the evolution of Looney Tunes

  • 1930

    1930

    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
  • 1933

    1933

    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.
  • 1950

    1950

    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.
  • 1963

    1963

    Warner Brothers shuttered the Termite Terrace in 1963, but the Looney Tunes brand remained a profitable one.
  • 1979-1981

    1979-1981

    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.

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