Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929-1939)

This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by Warner Bros. under the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" banners between 1930 and 1939, plus the 1929 pilot film which was used to sell the series to WB.

A total of 270 shorts were released during the 1930s.

= Pilot: "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid" (1929) =

A cartoonist draws Bosko, who comes to life. Bosko speaks, sings, dances and plays the piano before the cartoonist sucks him into his ink pen and pours him back into the inkwell. Bosko pops out of the bottle and promises to return.

The film was directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, and can be seen on disc 4 of as a special feature.

1930 — 5 titles

All cartoons are "Looney Tunes" starring Bosko and are all directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.

1933 — 23 titles

All cartoons are directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, except where noted.

1936 — 31 titles

All Merrie Melodies are in 3-strip Technicolor, except where noted.
This year, the Merrie Melodies series adopts "Merrily We Roll Along" as its theme (the first cartoon to use this theme is "Boulevardier from the Bronx"). The Merrie Melodies series also begins using "target" opening and closing titles this year (starting with "I Wanna Play House").

1939 — 44 titles

Further reading

* "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons", by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
* "Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist" by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-12348-9
* "That's Not All, Folks!" by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-39089-5 (Softcover) ISBN 0-446-51244-3 (Hardcover)
* "Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons", Leonard Maltin, Revised Edition 1987, Plume ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (Softcover) ISBN 0-613-64753-X (Hardcover)

See also

* Looney Tunes
* Merrie Melodies
* Censored Eleven
* Looney Tunes Golden Collection

External links

* The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Warner_Bros_/Merrie_Melodies/index.html Merrie Melodies Cartoons] and for [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Warner_Bros_/Looney_Tunes/index.html Looney Tunes Cartoons]
* [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com Golden Age Cartoons' "The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website" by Jon Cooke]
* [http://www.conmicro.cx/~eocostello/wbcc/eowbcc-glossary.html "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion", a wealth of trivia about the Warner cartoons]
* [http://looneytunes.warnerbros.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt1J4k3sQQQ "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid"] available for viewing at YouTube