Merrie Melodies - Original Titles/Openings (1936)

[@rjmcallister1888]

Many changes this year: The moving shield and 'Vitaphone' (which had been repurposed to handle all of Warners' short subjects), along with the 'target' background; the change to Carl Stalling in the music department after he came over from the defunct Celebrity Pictures; it was he who changed the theme to "Merrily We Roll Along" from "I Think You're Ducky". Full Technicolor. The "Blue Ribbons" were designed to eliminate prior credits; primarily Fred Avery, Bob Clampett, Jack King and Frank Tashlin.

[@EmeraldRose2022]

Starting from Boulevardier from the Bronx, the WB shield went from red to blue for the first time ever!

[@adamekhoff43]

Plus, the first cartoon to use the Merrie Melodies theme!

[@staspastukh2005]

Why?

[@jnadle1]

@@staspastukh2005 Carl Stalling was the new permanent musical director, taking over for Norman Spencer/Bernard Brown.

[@AarHan3]

"Merrily We Roll Along."

[@claf5935]

@@AarHan3 3:19 (Applause)

[@Sebastian.Espinosa]

2:05-2:29 My Favorite for 1936. "I Love To Singa"

[@tobygoodguy4032]

"I Love to Singa". Classic ... if only in my mind. 🤠

[@DilanCommunications]

South Park moment

[@notjacksfilms]

The opening theme in the intro for merrie melodies before Merrily We Roll Along is 100x better imo. Has a "you know shit's gonna go down" type feel.

[@LOLMAN9538]

Here's how Page Miss Glory's titles would have looked with the regular title format: SUPERVISION: Fred Avery ORCHESTRATIONS: Bernard Brown ANIMATION: Charles Jones - Bob Clampett

[@stephenholloway6893]

Expect for 1 thing, Tex Avery directed that short and odds are it probably would had included his animators at the time. Unless he borrowed Friz's for that short.

[@MediaWindowsMaker]

My childhood let's gooooo

[@nicogarciabordin]

❤

[@MalekMasoud]

Am I the only one who loves the fact that the HBO Max prints have given the rings a more open matte?

[@diegotherobloxfanatic6962]

Those shorts were being restored at that time

[@DoggoYTBoomerang]

You mean they're full frame instead of cropped. They look nice though except the ones that have obvious photoshop on the titles

[@SlenderSR]

You missed Sunday Go to Meetin' time (8th August 1936 + Director - Friz Freleng)

[@SlenderSR]

@Super Alexthebigboy1 Yes but all loved Original Titles)

[@varietychan]

Did they change the music for some HBO Max prints. Since they should have all different varients of I Think You're Ducky

[@staspastukh2005]

Yes, because why not.

[@ChocolateFizzles]

I don't think so

[@staspastukh2005]

Me too.

[@fredrogers4717]

Yes. Having listened to them all back and forth, each one is definitely a different recording of I Think You’re Ducky.

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Executive produced Sander schwaxtz

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Executive produced Sander schwaxtz Produced Gloria huy jenkins

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

John leguizamo Special

[@staspastukh2005]

Can you please do all Merrie Melodies openings in high quality?

[@traeyboy529]

Not all of the Merrie Melodies shorts can be found in high quality. Regarding this video, there is a better quality version of the original opening titles for "I Wanna Play House" from a foreign broadcast of the Turner dubbed version though I don't know why the one seen in the video is used. The Censored Eleven are expected to not have high quality versions (excluding the music sequence from "Clean Pastures" being re-used and edited in "Have You Got Any Castles?" in the 1937-1938 season, which *is* the closest to such a short in the Censored Eleven list being shown on television) due to the withdrawal in the late-60s.

[@staspastukh2005]

What reason?

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Starring Tom minton

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Produced Tom minton Gloria huy jenkins

[@willianyucaquispe285]

NOOOOOOOO

[@willianyucaquispe285]

No

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Editors Charles ace

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Editors Charles m jones ace

[@WillCWilson]

The audio for "When I Yoo Hoo" sounds terrible X(

[@stevenrowan9244]

God, those digitally added rings from HBO Max look awful.

[@smasherjosh5000]

I could be wrong but it could be the original aspect ratio

[@fredrogers4717]

@@smasherjosh5000 A decent try, but the HBO Max restorations are actually photoshopped. It’s not just these ones, but any previously unrestored short before being put on the streaming service have this issue. You can tell from how the rings are too far out and how the text (title, MM logo and copyright notice) fade in and out. Kinda shocking considering how Page Miss Glory, I Love to Singa and The Coo-Coo Nut Grove were restored before HBO Max (via the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series) and actually look more authentic and taken from their original film negatives

[@leahsincelejo7641]

Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes didn’t actually add extra rings until 1954.

[@stevenrowan9244]

@@fredrogers4717 Exactly.

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Produced Patie david Paty Gary cox

[@Qemal_Wigstan]

Produced Tom minton

[@paulonatanaeldossantossana3909]

E esqueceu do don't look now

[@arandomchannel2703]

Don’t look now’s original titles were lost due to the reissue

[@anakarinamarquesgarcia8591]

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