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Warner Bros. (1944–1963) Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of ...
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Watch the classic and beloved Looney Tunes characters in new and vibrant cartoons across multiple platforms. Looney Tunes Cartoons is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and features veteran voice cast members and a cartoonist-driven approach.
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- Warner Bros. Cartoons Staff, 1933–1969
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1930–1933: Harman-Ising Productions
1. Main article: Harman and Ising Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising originated the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short subjects in 1930 and 1931, respectively. Both cartoon series were produced for Leon Schlesinger at the Harman-Ising Studio on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, with Warner Bros. Pictures releasing the films to theaters. The first Looney Tunes character was the Harman-Ising creation Bosko, The Talk-ink Kid. Despite the fact that Bosko was popular a...
1933–1944: Leon Schlesinger Productions
The Schlesinger studio got off to a slow start, continuing their one-shot Merrie Melodies and introducing a Bosko replacement named Buddy into the Looney Tunes. Disney animator Tom Palmer was the studio's first senior director, but after the three cartoons he made were deemed to be of unacceptable quality and rejected by the studio, former Harman-Ising animator/musical composer Isadore "Friz" Freleng was called in to replace Palmer and rework his cartoons where every cartoon Freleng directed...
1944–1964: Warner Bros. Cartoons
In 1944, Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros., which renamed the company Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., and Edward Selzer (who by Jones' and Freleng's accounts had no sense of humor or appreciation of cartoons), was appointed by Warner Bros. as the new head of the cartoon studio after Schlesinger retired. In September 1944 Frank Tashlin left, and in October 1946, Robert Clampett left. Tashlin's unit was initially taken over by Robert McKimson who later took over Clampett's unit. The rema...
Studio heads
1. Leon Schlesinger(1933–1944) 2. Eddie Selzer(1944–1958) 3. John Burton(1958–1961) 4. David H. DePatie(1961–1963) 5. William L. Hendricks(1967–1969)
Directors
1. Tex Avery (1935–1942) (credited as Fred Avery) 2. Ted Bonnicksen (1963) 3. Bernard B. Brown(1934) 4. Gerry Chiniquy(1964) 5. Bob Clampett (1937–1946) (credited as Robert Clampett) 6. Cal Dalton(1938–1940) 7. Arthur Davis(1946–1949, 1962) 8. Earl Duvall(1933―1934) 9. Friz Freleng (1934–1938, 1940–1964) (credited (until late 1955) as I. Freleng) 10. Ben Hardaway(1934–1935, 1938–1940) 11. Ken Harris(1959) 12. Cal Howard(1938) 13. Ub Iwerks(1937) 14. Chuck Jones (1938–1964) (credited (until 19...
Storyboard artists/writers
1. Howard Baldwin 2. Nick Bennion 3. David Detiege 4. John Dunn 5. Warren Foster(1938-1959, 1963) 6. Friz Freleng(1950-1951, 1959-1963) 7. Ben Hardaway(1933-1940, 1951) 8. George Hill 9. Cal Howard(1935-1938, 1951, 1967-1969) 10. Rich Hogan 11. Chuck Jones(1955-1957, 1960-1963) 12. Lew Landsman 13. Lou Lilly 14. Sid Marcus(1949, 1954-1955) 15. Michael Maltese(1941-1963) 16. George Manuell 17. Robert McKimson(1963) 18. Melvin "Tubby" Millar 19. Jack Miller 20. Dave Monahan 21. Fred Neiman 22....
Short subjects
1. Main article: Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography 1. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodiesfilmography (1929–1939) 2. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodiesfilmography (1940–1949) 3. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodiesfilmography (1950–1959) 4. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodiesfilmography (1960–1969) Warner Bros. Cartoons produced two series of animated shorts for commercial theatrical release, Looney Tunes (1930–1969) and Merrie Melodies (1931–1969). The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts f...
Philbert– produced as a pilot, not sold (1963)The Golden Age of American animationMeanwhile, the Schlesinger studio continued to make popular cartoons until 1944 when Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. Since then, Warner Bros. has owned all rights to all post-1933 characters created by Leon Schlesinger Productions and Warner Bros. Cartoons, even after the rights to individual cartoons were placed in other hands.
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Warner Bros. Animation Inc. [2] is an American animation studio which is part of the Warner Bros. Television Studios, a division of Warner Bros., which is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery and serves as the animation division and label of Warner Bros. As the successor to Warner Bros. Cartoons, which was active from 1933 to 1969, the studio ...
