Flowers for Madame

Vertically stretched. Blue Ribbon re-release Feb. 3, 1951, released Nov. 30, 1935. Title song by Murray Mencher, Charles Newman and Charles Tobias. Paul Smith & Don Williams animated for Friz Freleng. Watch for (Tedd) Pierce's Pine and Tar Soap made in Laguna by the Sea. Elmore Vincent is megaphone voice, according to Graham Webb's book. Norm Spencer's score goes classical in the climax.

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Film & Animation

[MWolfL]

Wow, talk about widescreen. XD

[jgbennie]

@MWolfL That's the way YT handled the upload. Go figure.

[SteveCarras]

Cue at 6:41 wound up in the Sam FOx library and is used on a few other WB carotons, library the wartime Bugs classic "Falling Hare". At the end after the grasshopper winks, just try writing "That's all folks" in script, naturally, really fast, cause it ain't gonna show up here (you can tell that, a la "Sunday go to Meetin' time',"I wanna Play house","I love to singa" and "The Cat Came Back" amoing others that the script cathphrase was written very rapidly in its original verison like that..

[SteveCarras]

@John80220

John, I have to say you're right.The music ends when that grasshopper sees us out of the cartoon [a GRASSHOPPER? AGGH!:)] Lovely title song.

[SteveCarras]

@ThePopeyeFan

It is.

[John80220]

Three-strip -- the only question is if this is the first WB cartoon with the concentric circle opening/closing titles? (I suspect 'yes' because the music at the iris out appears to be clipped for the "Merrily We Roll Along" ending, as if the original music was supposed to play through the end title, the way the 1936-37 Merrie Melodies would, as opposed to the 'jester' closing from the 1934-35 season. Hopefully, an original print will show up some day to put that mystery to rest.

[mbbnoble]

I have dreamed of this cartoon for years. I thought I would never see it again. It reminds me of being a child and the innocence I enjoyed. I just found it today for the first time in over fifty years and it made my heart sing. Thank you Murray Mencher and Warner Bros.

[vmoldbean]

There are blue and purple colors in this cartoon, a tone that 2-strip Technicolor couldn't render properly. So it is indeed the first 3-strip Technicolor WB cartoon. From what I've read in a thread in the GAC forum :

"The misleading two color info is probably sourced from Beck & Friedwald's excellent Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies - A Complete Illustrated Guide reference book. Jerry Beck has confirmed that this was an unfortunate error in the listing for this film."

[NunuvYerbizness]

No, it's 2-strip Technicolor. The first Warner 3-strip cartoon was "I Wanna Play House", released 11 January 1936.

[ThePopeyeFan]

This is 3-strip Technicolor. I'm sure.