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Dumb question about Looney Tunes

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?


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To: MNDude

One question for you.

Are the episodes in the collection the original versions as shown before 1980 or so, or is it the “No gratuitous violence, no suggestive dialog, no making people feel bad about themselves” PC versions they show nowadays (when they show it)?

If it’s the latter, hacked-up versions, their probably not worth the DVD material they are burned on.


41 posted on 06/09/2019 4:34:05 PM PDT by ssaftler (The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
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To: Doogle

When I was a kid in the Sixties, I seem to recall they used to show them at the base theaters in Yokosuka and Subic Bay before movies.


42 posted on 06/09/2019 4:35:21 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: mass55th

Once we got a black and white TV, the earliest cartoons I remember watching,...


The first ones I remember on TV were silent cartoons from the 20s and 30s. Of course they had dubbed music, but they had dialogue cards, so you had to read to be able to fully ‘get’ them. They typically featured a bearded farmer and his assorted farm animals. Lots of mice—not Mickey though. To see the good cartoons you still had to go to the movies. Then Disneyland came on TV.


43 posted on 06/09/2019 4:35:55 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ssaftler
If it’s the latter, hacked-up versions, their they're probably not worth the DVD material they are burned on.

Okay, spelling police:


44 posted on 06/09/2019 4:36:07 PM PDT by ssaftler (The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
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To: MNDude
Leonard Maltin wrote a book "Of Mice and Magic" all about Hollywood animation from the golden era. Basically there was early experimental stuff in the silent era and that is where Disney began and learned the ropes. With the beginning of Mickey Mouse which was created from the fallout of him leaving the employ of one these early animation outfits Disney rose to dominance in animation in the 1930s with Mickey and his growing gang and also had exclusive technicolor toons when the competition like Fleischer and Warners only had black and white. When Snow White in 1937 debuted Disney had moved to the next level and was now besides doing shorts was doing feature animated movies again leading the way.

Warners with Porky Pig and eventually Bugs Bunny stole the shorts crown from Disney during the 1940s and 1950s. The animation unit petered out and went silent by the early 1960s. What you saw on your tv during the 1960s and forward were those legendary shorts from earlier shown in movie theatres recycled. They are timeless and will be enjoyed for many generations into the future.

45 posted on 06/09/2019 4:36:50 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Bonemaker

“Extraordinarily fond memories from when America was still America.”

I was born in 1960, so by the time I was 10 or so, things were heating up and the Socialists and the Feminists were storming the castle! ;)

They did a great job of making me the ConservaTarian that I am, today. :)


46 posted on 06/09/2019 4:38:44 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: rlmorel

Usually before the featured,but occasionally they might sneak in two more much to cheers..* smiles*


47 posted on 06/09/2019 4:39:53 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: plain talk

LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): BUGS BUNNY - All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) (Remastered HD)


48 posted on 06/09/2019 4:41:49 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: Bonemaker
Here's an old one from Bobby Bumps


49 posted on 06/09/2019 4:45:16 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ssaftler

I own the Golden Collection DVDs and they are unedited. Even a couple of director cuts that didn’t originally make it past the censors.


50 posted on 06/09/2019 4:50:47 PM PDT by aomagrat (Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
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To: sparklite2

Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit!


51 posted on 06/09/2019 4:52:46 PM PDT by aomagrat (Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
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To: plain talk

I stumbled across “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves” some years ago on Youtube. Made in the 40s, and about as politically incorrect as you’d guess. No idea if it’s still there.


52 posted on 06/09/2019 4:53:24 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: xp38

I should add the creator directors at Warners Bob Clampett, Tex Avery,Isadore “Friz” Freleng and Chuck Jones were responsible for those great toons. The place they were made on the Warners lot was called the Termite Terrace.


53 posted on 06/09/2019 4:54:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Beowulf9
One of my earliest memories of a cartoon was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKlj9d6J5v8

When I clicked on your link, I saw that cartoon for the first time in 59 years. I first saw it on our black and white TV while watching Cartoon Express, a weekday program hosted by Bill Stulla, who called himself Engineer Bill. He wore a railroad engineer's cap and his props included model trains, railroad whistles and bells.

Engineer Bill also presented other animated features as well, including Spunky and Tadpole, a series about a boy and a bear and their exploits and feats of derring do, Gumby, the adventures of a walking, talking cookie, and Loony Tunes.

54 posted on 06/09/2019 4:56:03 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The 60’s were extremely violent, and turbulent years. I came along in 1940 so got to see WW2 and Korea plus the absolutely golden and forever singular 50’s. Things started going sideways in early 60’s with the “free speech” movement in Berkeley, JFK assassination , and the LBJ disaster. Then there was King, Bobby Kennedy, Watts, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Viet Nam and all the rest. Much of the senior current democrats came out of all that as the filth they are.


55 posted on 06/09/2019 4:56:18 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Here is a close-up of that character from Bobby Bumps ~ 1917. I am posting this stuff because I fully expect these cartoons to be removed from youtube etc.


56 posted on 06/09/2019 4:58:19 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: MNDude

I can recall seeing Looney Tunes in the 70s on Saturday Mornings. Maybe even the 80s.


57 posted on 06/09/2019 4:58:41 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: americas.best.days...

Wow!

“This is it
The night of nights...”


58 posted on 06/09/2019 5:01:22 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Beowulf9

it would take a lot more discussion to explain all the reasons (such as the confluence of the motion picture vertical monopolies being broken up,
the rise of TV, the UPA influence, the fall of many cartoon studios (WB MGM and Terry returned under new management several others like Universal/Lantz continued to make shorts into the late 1960s) that a cartoon like Colonel Bleep came about and found a home in the 1st decades of TV - mostly monetary, some artistic - it is a OK program (which had some input from Joseph Barbera) - it’s weak compared to really good programs from Jay Ward or even H-B but looks like a classic next to poor contemporary fare like “Clutch Cargo” or “Bucky and Pepito”


59 posted on 06/09/2019 5:05:54 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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Junior Frolics on Newark, NJ's own TV station played only old cartoons, with Uncle Fred doing a kind of narration, because they had no sound, usually. But there was always wonderful Flatt & Scruggs type music, which is I think why I loved them, although I didn't realize it at the time.

Here's one with the Skillet Lickers.

If you know anything about animation, you can see that these were real low-budget. The more times you could photograph the same piece of art, the more money you saved.

60 posted on 06/09/2019 5:06:38 PM PDT by firebrand
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