Supposed production order for some 1943-47 cartoons

[PF9]

Using info gathered from Dave Mackey's site, I have assembled the production order (split by series) of the non-BRed WB cartoons released between late 1943 and early 1947. With this discovery, it appears that 7 cartoons released in one series were intended for the other series (these will be marked with an *).

Looney Tunes:
Scrap Happy Daffy (10-13)
Daffy-The Commando (12-13)
Puss 'N Booty (13-13)
Tom Turk And Daffy (1-14)
I Got Plenty Of Mutton (2-14)
Angel Puss (4-14)
Brother Brat (6-14)
Buckaroo Bugs (7-14)
Plane Daffy (8-14)
Behind The Meat-Ball (13-14)
Draftee Daffy (1-15)
The Bashful Buzzard (4-15)
Quentin Quail (6-15)*
Book Revue (8-15)
Trap Happy Porky (9-15)
Baby Bottleneck (12-15)
Kitty Kornered (1-16)
The Big Snooze (6-16)

Merrie Melodies:
A Corny Concerto (19-12)
What's Cookin', Doc? (22-12)
Little Red Riding Rabbit (25-12)
Russian Rhapsody (26-12)
Meatless Flyday (1-13)
Bugs Bunny And The Three Bears (2-13)
Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips (4-13)
Birdy And The Beast (5-13)
The Weakly Reporter (6-13)
Herr Meets Hare (7-13)
Falling Hare (8-13)
Hare Force (9-13)
Hare Ribbin' (10-13)
The Old Grey Hare (11-13)
Stage Door Cartoon (12-13)
A Gruesome Twosome (3-14)
The Unruly Hare (4-14)
Hare Conditioned (5-14)*
Wagon Heels (6-14)
Holiday For Shoestrings (7-14)
Hare Tonic (8-14)*
Hare Trigger (9-14)
Hare Remover (10-14)
Hollywood Canine Canteen (11-14)
Baseball Bugs (12-14)*
Hair-Raising Hare (1-15)
Hollywood Daffy (2-15)
Acrobatty Bunny (3-15)*
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (4-15)*
Racketeer Rabbit (5-15)*
Nasty Quacks (11-15)

Other production numbers not known due to BR reissues.

Armed with all this info, it appears that some cartoons crediting WB Cartoons as producer may have actually been produced by Leon Schlesinger.

[J Lee]

There's a lobby card for the 1945 cartoon "Herr Meets Hare" that lists Leon Schlesinger as producer, so it's a good bet that the first cartoons that actually were produced by Warner Bros. itself, with Eddie Seltzer in charge, came about the same time that the expanded animation credits debuted in the spring of '45 (and -- going back to a 10-year-old post, the same time as Warners revived the Avery-Maltese opening for Bugs riding out on the shield, giving the audience a big "F-U" look and yanking down the MM or LT title card. Aside from the end gag in "The Heckling Hare", Bugs' nasty look at the audience at the start of the cartoon for interrupting his carrot break may have been something else Leon didn't particularly care for, and didn't return until after Schlesinger had sold the studio).

[PF9]

Hare Tonic and Baseball Bugs might have also been intended for the Merrie Melodies series, I have revealed. I will edit the first post to note this finding.

[J Lee]

Hare Tonic and Baseball Bugs might have also been intended for the Merrie Melodies series, I have revealed. I will edit the first post to note this finding.

Back to the lobby cards -- Joe Adamson's 50th anniversary book on Bugs has lobby cards of his cartoons ranging from 1941 to 1964 on the inside flap of the cover, and there are a number of cartoons from the 1945-48 period that are misdesignated as LT or MM, compared to how the cartoon showed up in theaters (though since theaters were paying extra prices for Bugs as a seperate series, it didn't really matter to them if they got a MM instead of a LT, as long as the rabbit was in it).