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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (post-1979)
Logo descriptions by Matt Williams, Benjamin Edge, and Bigrene2
Logo captures by Eric S., Logoboy95 and WileE2005
Editions by Eric S., WileE2005, V of Doom, and Bob Fish
In 1980, Warner Bros. Animation finally re-opened its doors, originally geared to make TV specials starring the Looney Tunes gang. A few newer theatrical shorts were also made to be released with re-issues of a few classic WB movies. In 1986, Freleng had departed, with Steven S. Greene and Kathleen Helppie-Shipley taking his place. The studio continued making TV specials starring the Looney Tunes gang, sporadically producing new Looney Tunes shorts for theaters such as The Duxorcist (1987), Night of the Living Duck (1988), Box Office Bunny (1990), and Carrotblanca (1995). Many of these shorts, as well as the new footage in the compilation film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (which includes The Duxorcist) was directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon. In the early 2000s, the company began to focus less on Looney Tunes and more on action-adventure cartoons, usually starring the Justice League characters, as well as remakes of the Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry franchises. In 2003, as a cross-promotion with the upcoming big-budget feature film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Warner Bros. commissioned their animation studio to make nearly thirty all-new Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for theatrical release with their newer movies. People who worked for various popular animated TV programs worked on the shorts, with contributions from the current WB Animation staff. When Looney Tunes: Back in Action failed in its theatrical release, Warner Bros. decided to not release the six cartoons they have completed, and canceled production on the rest of the shorts.
1st Logo
(1979-1980)
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2hd Logo
(1987-1990)
TBA
3rd Logo
(1990-1994)
TBA
4th Logo
(1994-1996)
TBA
5th Logo
(2000-2003)
TBA
6th Logo
(2003-2004)
Nicknames: "The Ugly Shield", "The Zooming Bullseye"
Studio Logo: On a black background, green center zooms up as some red rings zoom out one-by-one and arrange themselves into the famous "bullseye" backdrop. Then a large, metallic, ugly-looking red-and-gold WB shield comes from
the center of the screen, zooms up to a huge size, overshooting its mark and then backs up to its usual spot on the bullseye. Then over it, "WARNER BROS. PICTURES" "wipes" onscreen over the shield in an ugly font, and underneath is "PRESENTS" in the same font.
Series Title: Above the "bullseye" and on the same background is "LOONEY TUNES" in its trademark font, and underneath the center is "PRODUCED BY LARRY DOYLE." In the center, we see classic clips featuring the character in the cartoon that is about to begin, such as Foghorn Leghorn, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig, etc. It then fades to a third card featuring a background with outlines of Daffy, Bugs, Sylvester and Tweety, and the other main cartoon staff appears in front of the background.
Closing Logo: The same concentric circles background as before, but with "LOONEY TUNES" above the center of the rings and "That's all, Folks!" tracing itself on the bottom of the bullseye. Porky Pig appears in the center and stutters, "Bee-ba-da-ba-bee-da, That's all, folks!".
FX/SFX: All the animation in these logos.
Cheesy Factor: Really choppy animation on the zooming shield and bullseye, a extremely choppy for the text, and rather poor-quality design on Porky from the Sander Schwartz-led Warner Bros. Animation unit. Porky's voice is also pretty bad.
Music/Sounds: A remixed version of "Merrily We Roll Along." Sometimes the sound effects corresponding with the classic clips shown can be heard (explosions scorching Wile E. Coyote, for example)
Availability: Only one cartoon featuring this logo (The Whizzard of Ow) was released on DVD in America, on the Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD release. All the other cartoons using this logo were never released theatrically or shown on TV or released on video in the USA. The rest of the cartoons, however, do show up on a foreign DVD release of Looney Tunes: Back in Action. These cartoons were also seen at one point on TV in Canada.
Scare Factor: Medium, mainly due to the awkward animation and design on the WB shield and studio logo.
Logo captures by Eric S., Logoboy95 and WileE2005
Editions by Eric S., WileE2005, V of Doom, and Bob Fish
In 1980, Warner Bros. Animation finally re-opened its doors, originally geared to make TV specials starring the Looney Tunes gang. A few newer theatrical shorts were also made to be released with re-issues of a few classic WB movies. In 1986, Freleng had departed, with Steven S. Greene and Kathleen Helppie-Shipley taking his place. The studio continued making TV specials starring the Looney Tunes gang, sporadically producing new Looney Tunes shorts for theaters such as The Duxorcist (1987), Night of the Living Duck (1988), Box Office Bunny (1990), and Carrotblanca (1995). Many of these shorts, as well as the new footage in the compilation film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (which includes The Duxorcist) was directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon. In the early 2000s, the company began to focus less on Looney Tunes and more on action-adventure cartoons, usually starring the Justice League characters, as well as remakes of the Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry franchises. In 2003, as a cross-promotion with the upcoming big-budget feature film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Warner Bros. commissioned their animation studio to make nearly thirty all-new Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for theatrical release with their newer movies. People who worked for various popular animated TV programs worked on the shorts, with contributions from the current WB Animation staff. When Looney Tunes: Back in Action failed in its theatrical release, Warner Bros. decided to not release the six cartoons they have completed, and canceled production on the rest of the shorts.
1st Logo
(1979-1980)
TBA
2hd Logo
(1987-1990)
TBA
3rd Logo
(1990-1994)
TBA
4th Logo
(1994-1996)
TBA
5th Logo
(2000-2003)
TBA
6th Logo
(2003-2004)
Nicknames: "The Ugly Shield", "The Zooming Bullseye"
Studio Logo: On a black background, green center zooms up as some red rings zoom out one-by-one and arrange themselves into the famous "bullseye" backdrop. Then a large, metallic, ugly-looking red-and-gold WB shield comes from
the center of the screen, zooms up to a huge size, overshooting its mark and then backs up to its usual spot on the bullseye. Then over it, "WARNER BROS. PICTURES" "wipes" onscreen over the shield in an ugly font, and underneath is "PRESENTS" in the same font.Series Title: Above the "bullseye" and on the same background is "LOONEY TUNES" in its trademark font, and underneath the center is "PRODUCED BY LARRY DOYLE." In the center, we see classic clips featuring the character in the cartoon that is about to begin, such as Foghorn Leghorn, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig, etc. It then fades to a third card featuring a background with outlines of Daffy, Bugs, Sylvester and Tweety, and the other main cartoon staff appears in front of the background.
Closing Logo: The same concentric circles background as before, but with "LOONEY TUNES" above the center of the rings and "That's all, Folks!" tracing itself on the bottom of the bullseye. Porky Pig appears in the center and stutters, "Bee-ba-da-ba-bee-da, That's all, folks!".
FX/SFX: All the animation in these logos.
Cheesy Factor: Really choppy animation on the zooming shield and bullseye, a extremely choppy for the text, and rather poor-quality design on Porky from the Sander Schwartz-led Warner Bros. Animation unit. Porky's voice is also pretty bad.
Music/Sounds: A remixed version of "Merrily We Roll Along." Sometimes the sound effects corresponding with the classic clips shown can be heard (explosions scorching Wile E. Coyote, for example)
Availability: Only one cartoon featuring this logo (The Whizzard of Ow) was released on DVD in America, on the Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD release. All the other cartoons using this logo were never released theatrically or shown on TV or released on video in the USA. The rest of the cartoons, however, do show up on a foreign DVD release of Looney Tunes: Back in Action. These cartoons were also seen at one point on TV in Canada.
Scare Factor: Medium, mainly due to the awkward animation and design on the WB shield and studio logo.
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Excuse me, but I think that the revisions that m3urious has done with the LT and MM pages makes this all VERY confusing and it would become inconvenient just to switch back and forth from articles, plus the LT and MM pages have stuff duplicated from this, making it look sloppy. I think we should just simply combine all the articles into one again (to save time for the pre-1935 Merrie Melodies logos it would simply state the Studio Logo as "Same as the 1930-1935 Looney Tunes logo" or something like that. After all, the LTs and MMs were both basically the same by 1945, so it doesn't make much difference to the logos anyways, especially in the 1960s. Doesn't anyone believe me?
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| BChance77 | Made Updates to the Merrie Melodies Logos Page on CLG2 | 0 | Jun 20 2008, 2:13 PM EDT by BChance77 | ||
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I have made extensive updates to the Merrie Melodies logos page on the Closing Logo Group 2 website (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClosingLogoGroup2/).
Find it in the "Files" section under sub-folder "Kids and Cartoons".
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| Kaufmancab51 | rw&b | 0 | Jun 18 2008, 12:35 PM EDT by Kaufmancab51 | ||
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can someone upload the red, white and blue ringed merrie melodies logo?
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