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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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1 posted on 06/09/2019 3:32:17 PM PDT by MNDude
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They were originally released as shorts shown with Warner Brothers feature films. There were other studios that did the same. Walt Disney Studios was one of the few independent animation studios and leased their animated shorts separate from any feature films before the release of Snow White.


2 posted on 06/09/2019 3:35:54 PM PDT by MisterMagic
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To: MNDude

I only remember color. Is your collection b&w?


3 posted on 06/09/2019 3:37:18 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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They were shown between episodes of short “B” movies that were only 35 minutes to an hour long. You’d go to see three 30 minute episodes of buck Rogers or two Charlie Chan Mysteries and the cartoons were used as filler between the main features.


4 posted on 06/09/2019 3:38:30 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: MNDude
BTW, check Youtube. You can find a lot of the old ones there.

Even when I was a kid in the '60s, they weren't showing them all. Later on, even less.

5 posted on 06/09/2019 3:38:56 PM PDT by Lee N. Field (Gnosticism and anti-trinitarian heresy, like beans and cabbage, makes for a powerful combo.)
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I’m pretty sure I saw Warner cartoons on TV before the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner hour. I remember when that show debuted. I certainly saw a slew of the earlier cartoons at the movie theater or the drive-in.

I remember when our family got our first TV. It had to be 1955 or 1956. The first show I watched was the Mickey Mouse Club.


6 posted on 06/09/2019 3:39:28 PM PDT by be-baw
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Yep, movie theaters. Some Warner DVDs of classic movies of that period give you an option to select “Warner Bros. Night at the Movies”. These presentations include trailers, newsreels, short subjects and a cartoon as one might have experienced it in a theater in the 30s, 40s or 50s.


7 posted on 06/09/2019 3:40:12 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: MNDude

You know what was amazing about the Looney Tunes? The link to classic American literature. I think some of the Merry Melodies and Tex Avery cartoons had them too.


8 posted on 06/09/2019 3:40:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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My family didn’t have TV in the forties.
Saturday morning for me was Space Patrol,
Big John & Sparky, the Buster Brown Show,
and maybe the Lone Ranger.

The fifties and TV brought Crusade Rabbit,
Rocky & Bullwinkle, and Our Gang.


9 posted on 06/09/2019 3:42:17 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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Occasionally theater’s would run them
four in a row....Saturdays were always Looney Tunes lineup..
But then political correctness took over...


10 posted on 06/09/2019 3:43:03 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: MNDude

We got our first TV in 1956, and I would get up early Saturday mornings to watch cartoons. I don’t remember the names. Howdy Doody and the Mouseketeers were on weekday afternoons after school. Disney was on Sunday evenings, along with Ed Sullivan.


11 posted on 06/09/2019 3:43:36 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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Cartoons were also shown at Drive in theatres. They would show at dusk and run until it was dark enough for the main feature. Not sure when drive in first came into existence, must have been late 30’s? or just after the War.


12 posted on 06/09/2019 3:43:56 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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In the early 50’s it was newsreel, cartoon, short ‘cliff hanger’ and then the main event movie.


13 posted on 06/09/2019 3:46:10 PM PDT by GOPJ (Line the pockets of deep state thugs to gain power. Graft in DC is protected by 'norms'...)
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Yes, the old ones were originally shown in movie theaters. That’s why the old ones had to be funny to two different audiences—the kids and the adults. The ones from the forties often have lots of references to the war, rationing, etc and they sometimes feature the stars of the day—Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, etc.

Movies were a great deal. Usually two feature films and between a newsreel, at least one cartoon and a serial or two. Many people went at least once a week because it was an affordable night out. They did rip you off on the candy though. Movies would charge 6¢ for a candy bar that cost 5¢ everywhere else.


14 posted on 06/09/2019 3:51:54 PM PDT by hanamizu
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One of my earliest memories of a cartoon was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKlj9d6J5v8

Now considering Disney had made Bambi in ‘42 this was pretty bad.

I remember, even as a kid, staring at it, wondering why it was so weird.


15 posted on 06/09/2019 3:52:43 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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All different kinds. The frog singimg Hello my baby. There are some WWII era ones on YouTube like Gremlins from the Kremlin. Some great ones.


16 posted on 06/09/2019 3:52:53 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Right after the previews and just before the movie. We didn’t always get a cartoon, but quite often did.


17 posted on 06/09/2019 3:54:02 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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They were shorts shown in the movies. There would be a couple of cartoons, a newsreel and the feature.


18 posted on 06/09/2019 3:54:12 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: no-to-illegals

For a modern rebirth of ‘30s animation,
get the video game “Cuphead.” You might
even be able to download it for free.


19 posted on 06/09/2019 3:55:30 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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The original cartoon shorts were in the movie theaters.

I was regaled many a times by my parents who would tell me about the cartoons, the news reels, a short subject and the double features you got for your nickel. (I believed it all, except for the nickel.)


20 posted on 06/09/2019 3:55:50 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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