WB always "plugged" thier songs through thier cartoons. They would do this before a picture was released with the songs from the movie. Very smart. This cartoon is feature with the video & dvd Footlight Parade. Very smart marketing at the time.....
This was one of the few early WB cartoons to used a MPPDA logo where it says "This picture approved by the production code administration of the Motion Pictures Producers & Distributers of America". This was followed by the main title to "Honeymoon Hotel". I remember seeing this on TV where they used the MPPDA logo disclaimer. This was right between the main title and the AAP logo.
This was the first WB cartoon in the "Merrie Melodies" series to be released in color. The first two are in Cinecolor by 1934. This was two years after Walt Disney made the first "Silly Symphony" short "Flowers and Trees" in color, and a year before Mickey Mouse made his first short in Technicolor called "The Band Concert". As for the cartoon itself, it was never released on any "Looney Tunes" DVD series and sets.
@NorbertZF - Originally, the Merrie Melodies were used to showcase music from the Warner Brothers music library. And "Footlight Parade" was a Warner Brothers musical. So it all makes sense.
@ParamountCartoons Yep! This song was used in that intro from 1934 through early 1936. It was later replaced with the theme "Merrily We Roll Along" when it was used from 1936 until 1964. The first WB cartoon to feature the theme "Merrily We Roll Along" as a "Merrie Melodies" theme was "Boulevardier From the Bronx".
@lexbates Most of the late 40s cartoons that were made in Cinecolor were Art Davis' cartoons, although I think he made better use of the format, as opposed to here in the 1930s.
@InvaderPet Paramount released some Popeye cartoons in Cinecolor in the late 40's as well;the Cinecolor corporation itself was out of business by the mid-1950's.
No, Jones, Freleng and McKimson did a few in the process, but InvaderPet, you're correct...the title song is one of many Warner Bros.songs used a lot in the thirties but mysteriously dropped while other songs remaining in Carl Stalling's songbook [and later Milt Franklyn]. Note the modification of the lyrics.
Because of the success Disney was having with his Technicolor "Silly Symphonies", other studios tried to emulate him with their own variations. But Disney had exclusive rights to "three-strip" Technicolor through the end of 1935, and his rivals had to use other color processes, including Cinecolor. Warner Bros. released two Cinecolor "Merrie Melodies" in early 1934 to see how audiences reacted to them. They began using "two-strip" Technicolor for the series regularly by November 1934.
Waa! Colour Cartoon in The 1930's :D!
videomaker359 1 week ago
hahah! thats so weird!
Erunokabe 1 month ago
WB always "plugged" thier songs through thier cartoons. They would do this before a picture was released with the songs from the movie. Very smart. This cartoon is feature with the video & dvd Footlight Parade. Very smart marketing at the time.....
begs54 2 months ago
Seems like their love caught the hotel on fire.
WWEChampion16 4 months ago
Disney may have been ahead of WB in animation and color.
but WB really knows how to use the music in the animation
3:20 Very Slick
cumulo25 7 months ago
I just love it, my kids were brought up on these Especially the Cobweb Hotel. Today´s generation have lost so much!
David10brook 9 months ago
I love the part with the Moon - cracks me up every time!
zzGRENDELzz 11 months ago
Wow, I wasn't even born when this movie was made!
Lowellrefugee 1 year ago
One of the very few WB cartoons that I don't recall ever seeing on TV, besides those excluded for PC reasons.
TerryLDaniels 1 year ago
The production values and quality just amaze me.
chem100 1 year ago
this is a beautiful cartoon!
DivinaVevo 1 year ago
This was one of the few early WB cartoons to used a MPPDA logo where it says "This picture approved by the production code administration of the Motion Pictures Producers & Distributers of America". This was followed by the main title to "Honeymoon Hotel". I remember seeing this on TV where they used the MPPDA logo disclaimer. This was right between the main title and the AAP logo.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 1 year ago
This was the first WB cartoon in the "Merrie Melodies" series to be released in color. The first two are in Cinecolor by 1934. This was two years after Walt Disney made the first "Silly Symphony" short "Flowers and Trees" in color, and a year before Mickey Mouse made his first short in Technicolor called "The Band Concert". As for the cartoon itself, it was never released on any "Looney Tunes" DVD series and sets.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 1 year ago
Funny! This song was used in the same year in the James Cagney musical "Footlight
Parade." "Honeymoon Hotel" and "By A Waterfall" both are used in this cartoon.
NorbertZF 1 year ago
@NorbertZF - Originally, the Merrie Melodies were used to showcase music from the Warner Brothers music library. And "Footlight Parade" was a Warner Brothers musical. So it all makes sense.
WSenator1 9 months ago
only in cartoons is that kind of stuff can happen.
Gundamknight100 1 year ago
The first cartoon to use the modified version of the song "I Think You're Ducky" in the opening titles.
ParamountCartoons 1 year ago
@ParamountCartoons Yep! This song was used in that intro from 1934 through early 1936. It was later replaced with the theme "Merrily We Roll Along" when it was used from 1936 until 1964. The first WB cartoon to feature the theme "Merrily We Roll Along" as a "Merrie Melodies" theme was "Boulevardier From the Bronx".
HomeoftheGoodGuys 1 year ago
losers they did this to make ppl feel better about the depression
Burromovie 1 year ago
As you're probably well aware, Frank Tipper, who animated this cartoon, later became one of the background artists for Hanna-Barbera in the 50's.
2005dave 1 year ago
The last Warner Brothers cartoon in the "two-strip" process was "The Cat Came Back"(1936),excluding some Cinecolor releases in the late '40s'.
lexbates 1 year ago
@lexbates Most of the late 40s cartoons that were made in Cinecolor were Art Davis' cartoons, although I think he made better use of the format, as opposed to here in the 1930s.
InvaderPet 1 year ago
@InvaderPet Paramount released some Popeye cartoons in Cinecolor in the late 40's as well;the Cinecolor corporation itself was out of business by the mid-1950's.
lexbates 1 year ago
@lexbates I meant that of WB's cartoons, only Davis was using Cinecolor.
InvaderPet 1 year ago
@InvaderPet Right,his films were relegated to Cinecolor as a a cost-cutting measure,and his animation unit was the one that was discontinued in 1949.
lexbates 1 year ago
@lexbates They used Cinecolor because Disney had exclusive rights to Technicolor.
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@InvaderPet
No, Jones, Freleng and McKimson did a few in the process, but InvaderPet, you're correct...the title song is one of many Warner Bros.songs used a lot in the thirties but mysteriously dropped while other songs remaining in Carl Stalling's songbook [and later Milt Franklyn]. Note the modification of the lyrics.
SteveCarras 1 year ago
Because of the success Disney was having with his Technicolor "Silly Symphonies", other studios tried to emulate him with their own variations. But Disney had exclusive rights to "three-strip" Technicolor through the end of 1935, and his rivals had to use other color processes, including Cinecolor. Warner Bros. released two Cinecolor "Merrie Melodies" in early 1934 to see how audiences reacted to them. They began using "two-strip" Technicolor for the series regularly by November 1934.
fromthesidelines 2 years ago