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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (Radio & Television Packagers redrawn and colorized versions)
About this film
In the early 1970's, a company named Radio & Television Packagers commissioned Fred Ladd and his colorization company Color Systems Inc. (later named Entercolor Technologies Corp.) to colorize various cartoon shorts that had just fallen into the public domain at the time, mostly silent era cartoons such as Felix the Cat and Mutt and Jeff. Among the batch of shorts selected were several of the earliest black and white Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, some of which featured Harman and Ising's cartoon star Bosko. Unlike the batch of redrawn and colorized Looney Tunes shorts done in 1967 (most of which featured Porky Pig and Daffy Duck), Color Systems and Ladd did not need the permission of Warner Bros. to colorize these shorts due to their then-new public domain status. Additionally, the original audio of these shorts was replaced with an entirely new soundtrack comprised of new music and sound effects, which was the same process all cartoons done under Radio & Television Packagers went through. The Radio & Television Packagers versions also renamed the majority of the shorts, usually to titles that had nothing to do with the shorts the…
Directors & creators
Radio & Television Packagers, Entercolor Technologies Corp.
Subjects
looney tunes, merrie melodies, bosko, colorized, redrawn, redrawn and colorized, redrawn colorized, warner bros, radio and television packagers, fred ladd
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