Posted on 06/09/2019 3:32:17 PM PDT by MNDude
When I was a kid, I loved to wake up Saturday morning to watch The Bugs Bunny Roadrunner hour. I bought the Looney Tunes golden collection which should contain most of the episodes, and it is money well spent. Those episodes never get old.
But I was wondering, is there anyone here old enough to remember how they were originally broadcast back in the 40s and 50s? I doubt they had Saturday morning cartoon lineups back then. Did you have to go to the movie theaters to watch them or what?
Google would not try to pull the wool over our eyes re Looney Tunes; or would they?
i remember mm club cisco kid lone ranger
I got to see the lone ranger and tonto open a rodeo live in madison square garden a great thrill...
Geez, when I used to go to the Saturday kiddies matinee back in the early fifties, there was always a Looney Tune or a Disney cartoon included with the latest chapter of some great serial such as “Nyoka, the Jungle Girl” or “Dick Tracy” and a feature western or swordfight flick - best twenty-five cents you could spend back then......
Usually at the beginning or double feature halftime after you had time to buy popcorn. Extraordinarily fond memories from when America was still America.
A lot of very very un-pc cartoons or cartoon episodes simply never run anymore.
I remember Bugs Bunny in blackface. Some pretty suggestive Popeyes. Episodes of varying cartoon shows where black people were always slow and somewhat retarded.
Song of the South with the songs of Mr. blue jay and zippity do da. Very Very violent Tom and Jerry episodes. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they’re being systematically destroyed by the American Taliban.
Yes. Youtube. You can see some really old ones that are not exactly politically correct like Bobby Bumps from 1917 with a “mammy” like character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCv-O3-QDY
4:33
IIRC, some TV stations would broadcast cartoons at specific times. Around 7-9 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. daily M-F.
Weekend venues were slightly different. Some would broadcast childrens’ programming — cartoons and TV shows such as Sky King, Fury, etc. — from about 7-12 a.m.
Betty Boop cartoons were so integrated with their times that some of the scenes will make so sense to post-boomers.
One that stands out in my memory was Betty using a pay phone, hanging up, then leaving the frame. The pay phone makes a clanking sound, then Betty runs back in and checks the coin return slot. This was something we all did because the sound of the new coin(s) dropping into coins already in the phone from past calls sounded so much like you were getting your money back, that we all checked, just in case. It seldom paid off.
“My family didn’t have TV in the forties.”
Practically no one did. We got one in 1950 and it was the first on the block. All my buddies would come over just about everyday to watch.
I was born in 1947. About the only way we got to watch those cartoons was at the movie theater. They’d be shown before or in-between a double feature. Our local theater also used to have Saturday morning cartoon jamborees, where you could go and see about 50 cartoons back-to-back. Besides Warner Brothers, they’d show Popeye, and I think we used to see some Harvey cartoons, like Casper The Friendly Ghost, and probably some others. Once we got a black and white TV, the earliest cartoons I remember watching, besides the ones aired by Disney, were Mighty Mouse, Heckel and Jeckel, and Popeye.
“Looney Tunes golden collection”
So did I! Wish I had some “Jonny Quest” episodes too! Clutch Cargo (Chicago kid here) would be a hoot also.
I would like to help but all I remember is a pig stuttering “That’s all folks”
I learned about the music of Franz Liszt and Raymond Scott by watching Warner Brothers cartoons.
” Popeye”
For anyone interested TCM has been showing a Popeye cartoon from the mid-1930’s every Saturday at 10 am. Those Max Fleischer ones were the only good ones, and they are very good. I have 14 on my DVR.
If you think about it, Popeye was a super-hero even before Superman.
” Tonight what heights we’ll hit,
....on with the show, this is it.”
Then the parade of characters from short to tall. Those were the days.
I remember being glued to the tube all morning, every Saturday morning back in those days, watching cartoons. My dad had his own tv repair business and HATED tv, and wouldn't let us have one. But we hounded him to death and by 1958 or so we had worn him down. After that, Saturday morning meant cartoons for me, black and white of course.
I seem to remember lots of Looney Tunes stuff in the late 50s, but this is going waaay back and I could be wrong about that. One of my favorites was... Tom Terrific? Can't figure out why now. Pops was right. TV is crap. Always has been.
I remember my folks taking me over to a friend of theirs who had a TV. As I recall it had about a 6 inch screen in a huge set. I also remember some TVs actually pointed straight up. The lid of the set had a mirror so you could watch it.
You also learned a lot of Wagner.
Bugs Bunny especially.
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