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Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films.
This is a list of productions by Warner Bros. Cartoons, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., which mainly produced the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. Other animated projects were made for Warner, as well as entities such as U.S. Army (Private Snafu) and U.S. Navy (Mr. Hook).
- Origin of Warner Bros. Cartoons: Bosko, Buddy, and Beans The Cat
- Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Mel Blanc
- End of The Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons
- Legacy of Warner Bros. Cartoons
Warner Bros. Animation began when producer Leon Schlesinger, who was distantly related to the Warner Brothers who founded their namesake studio, hired a pair of animators, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, veterans of Walt Disney's Kansas City cartoon studio. Schlesinger put them in charge of creating cartoon shorts for the Warner Bros.' feature releas...
One of the major reasons why Porky was such a success was because of the influence of animation director Tex Avery, who had joined Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1935, and his team of animators that included Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones. Under Avery's direction, Porky was redesigned to be "softer" as opposed to fat, and Avery encouraged his animat...
Like other studios, Warner Bros. began phasing out theatrically-released cartoon shorts with the increasing popularity of television in the late 1950s. During this period, the studio underwent several major changes. The studio shut down cartoon production in 1962 and instead contracted the production company DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (founded by ...
Five Warner Bros. shorts won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon): Tweetie Pie (1947),For Scent-imental Reasons (1949), Speedy Gonzales (1955), Birds Anonymous (1957), and Knighty Knight Bugs (1958). In addition, the documentary short So Much for So Little, directed by Jones for the studio, was one of two shorts to win the Academy Awa...
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., later known as Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Cartoon Division [1] [2], was the in-house division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, Warner Bros. Cartoons was primarily...
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Spurred by the success of Walt Disney ’s Mickey Mouse cartoons, Warner Brothers contracted with Leon Schlesinger to produce an animated short that incorporated music from the studio’s extensive recording library.
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (formerly known as Leon Schlesinger Productions or Leon Schlesinger Studios) was the in-house division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of American animation.
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March 8: Chuck Jones' Robin Hood Daffy, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released. It stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. [1] March 26: 30th Academy Awards: The Tweety and Sylvester cartoon Birds Anonymous by Friz Freleng wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [2]
