AAP Anomaly on Merrie Melodies

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This is an intentional anomaly: on certain AAP prints of these old Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies, a snippet of the 1937 Merrie Melodies music plays for about a second, then cuts to the 1941-45 Merrie Melodies theme. On such 1937 releases as this not reissued as Blue Ribbons, the original music then resumes from the spliced point. There is no explanation as to this anomaly showing up on AAP prints of "Pop Goes Your Heart" (1934), which I'd want to find (I remember that airing from as recently as 1996 when it was on the Cartoon Network).

This particular anomaly is from the AAP print of the C11 short "Uncle Tom's Bungalow," although I remember hearing the same anomaly on "Streamlined Greta Green" and the previously mentioned "Pop Goes Your Heart."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• AAP
• Associated Artists Productions
• Merrie Melodies
• Looney Tunes
• Warner Bros.
• 1930s
• 1940s
• anomaly
• goof
• edit
• mistake

[masoudfun1996]

Why did you include the "C11" in the description?

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@masoudfun1996

Censored 11, because "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" was one of those in the category for its overreliance on black stereotypes deemed unsuitable for regular broadcast after 1968.

[masoudfun1996]

@ClassicTVMan1981X Is this was a video on an opening of a cartoon that has been banned from TV?

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@masoudfun1996

Yes, read the description.

[2ciaffaro]

I think I have understood why of this anomaly. I'm not very good at English, but I'll try to explain it. I think they play a snippet of the original soundtrack for manteining the audio-video synchrony. In other AAP prints, they don't do this, but they extend the black frames between the AAP print and the WB intro (for example in "Clean Pastures"). This because the 1937 soundtrack of the WB-MM cartoons starts immediately, not as in other post-1937 MM toons, which starts with some silent frames.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@2ciaffaro

Also, until "Egghead Rides Again" (7/17/37) the opening music also had no opening steel guitar sound accentuating the WB shield animation.

[fromthesidelines]

Sloppy editing job, on A.A.P.'s part. They usually added their logo BEFORE the start of the original print. Here, they "jumped" on it by a frame or two. Eliminate the A.A.P. bumper, and "merge" the opening fragment and the title- you'll see {and hear]!

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@2ciaffaro

The original music would've been spliced around the third note of the 1937 version of the Merrily We Roll Along theme song, then after the 1941 version of the same music ends, the '37 music resumes from the fourth note.

[thejackal007]

I completely forgot about this one. Thanks for posting this.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

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