Mr. & Mrs. Is The Name

[ThePeterNetwork]

I caught this cartoon on Boomerang's Looney Tunes schedule last night. It was cute seeing the happy merfolk swimming about (as I am particularly taken by beings of myth and legend :D). Yet something about this cartoon doesn't sit well with me. It was all in color. Didn't it used to be in black & white?

What's up with that? :confused:

[frizfrelengfan]

I believe this cartoon was made in color. It was a Merrie Melodie at the time when Looney Tunes were still in B&W but MM's were in color. Perhaps you're confused because the merman and mermaid resembled Buddy and Cookie. Buddy cartoons were B&W LT's. This is not officially a Buddy cartoon.

[ThePeterNetwork]

I just checked Dave Mackey's site, and it was indeed made in 1935 where MM's were in color while LT's were B/W. I think what also had me more confused was the fact that it didn't have rings like I'm used to in a typical WB cartoon, but those wouldn't manifest themselves until 1936 for some odd reason.

Crazy, isn't it? :befuddled

[J Lee]

The rings were created -- and were originally blue -- to coincide with the first three-strip Technocolor cartoons Warner Bros. could release, after Disney's exclusive rights to the two-strip process ended (or as Avery might have said if he had a little more leeway at the time "Technicolor Blue has gone to Warners"). The zooming WB shield was added just after that, and about a year after Warners' feature films began using the zooming WB shield opening in place of the Warner-Vitaphone logo that had been on its previous films and shorts (the "zoom" opening on the features only lasted about two years, while the cartoon studio kept it, with only a handful of exceptions, up until its closing in 1963).

[Jeff]

What's interesting about that short is the BCDB considers the unnamed hero of this cartoon "Buddy" (since it was during Buddy's Looney Tunes stint), so it may be the only Buddy cartoon originally produced in colour.Anyone else have a different opinion on whether it was Buddy?

[rex racer]

I caught this cartoon on Boomerang's Looney Tunes schedule last night. It was cute seeing the happy merfolk swimming about (as I am particularly taken by beings of myth and legend :D).The beginning of this film is actually very well done, with the animation of the ocean waves and the opening music leading into the opening chorus by the adult mermaids being the best scenes of the film. Once we go underwater though, it's back to the standard schtick for the most part. Still it's a fine classic, probably my fave of the early cinecolor Merrie Melodies!

What's interesting about that short is the BCDB considers the unnamed hero of this cartoon "Buddy" (since it was during Buddy's Looney Tunes stint), so it may be the only Buddy cartoon originally produced in colour.Anyone else have a different opinion on whether it was Buddy?It's pretty obvious to me the little boy and girl characters were modeled on Buddy and Cookie. But it's a bit of a stretch to consider this title a Buddy film. Would have required a scene which showed him dreaming the whole thing or something similar.