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Sunset Productions opening title card
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A Guild Films Presentation end title card

Sunset Productions, Inc. was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that licensed the television disribution rights to 191 black-and-white Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies to Guild Films in February 1955.[1][2][3] Jack Warner, Jr. was in charge of Sunset Productions during its existence.[4][5] The package included all black-and-white Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons except the Merrie Melodies cartoons produced by the Harman and Ising team.

Warner Bros. formally transferred the copyrights to the 191 cartoons to Sunset Productions to facilitate the licensing to guild while allegedly using the name on the cartoons' copyright notices because studio executives feared that theater owners would not be pleased if the "Warner Bros." name was used in television.

Yoyo Dodo zooms up with the WB shield to hit Porky Pig with a slingshot, then zooms back out. Additionally, the Leon Schlesinger Productions building sign from the start of "You Ought to Be in Pictures" and the ending gag from "Porky's Duck Hunt
" are cut from these television prints for the same reason. The copyright dates on the new title cards use incorrect Roman numerals, with the first part rendered as "MXM" instead of the correct "MCM".

In April 1957, Sunset Productions was turned into a subsidiary for the production of TV commercials with Jack Warner Jr. remaining in charge.[6][7]

Guild Films shut down amid financial scandal in 1961.[8] The TV rights to the Sunset package were sold to Seven Arts Productions instead.[9] Eliot Hyman, who had previously been president of Associated Artists Productions when it acquired the copyrights to several pre-August 1948 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons,[10] was the president of Seven Arts at the time.[11] In 1967, Seven Arts bought Warner Bros. and became Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, resulting in Warner Bros. regaining the TV distribution rights to the Sunset package.

Colorization

Soon after the WB-7A merger was complete, the studio had 79 of these black-and-white cartoons redrawn in color. These colorizations were produced by Fred Ladd.[12] In almost all cases, the Sunset TV prints were used as the source material, resulting in their titles being redrawn in color. In some cases, the Sunset titles are altered, usually with the WB-7A opening logos plastering over these titles.

The same 79 cartoons were colorized again in the early 1990s (along with 23 other cartoons not previously redrawn in 1968). This time computer software was used to add color to the cartoons. Unlike the retraced colorizations that preceded them, however, the Sunset TV prints were not used here, instead they use the original master negatives which preserve their original titles.

Some of the computer-colorized versions of 1937-43 cartoons use the 1936-37 Looney Tunes theme (also known as the "Porky Signature") instead of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".

List of cartoons in the "Sunset Productions" package

Notes:

  • All cartoons are Looney Tunes except Merrie Melodies noted with "MM"
  • Titles in boldface are available on DVD as part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection
  • All cartoons released in 1930 and 1931 are in the public domain. For subsequent years, public domain cartoons are marked with an asterisk
  • Cartoons that were redrawn in color in 1968 and then computer colorized a second time in the early 1990s are marked with a double dagger (‡). Ones that were computer-colorized for the first time in the 1990s are marked with a dagger (†).

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1943

References

  1. ^ "Guild Acquires 191 WB Cartoons" - Variety (2/16/1955)
  2. ^ a b "Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties" (page 176)
  3. ^ "Film Distribution" - Broadcasting Telecasting (3/7/1955)
  4. ^ "Trio of Majors Accelerate Television Plans" - The Independent Film Journal (4/16/1955)
  5. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc (1955-02-19). "Billboard". {{cite journal}}: |author1= has generic name (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties" (page 277)
  7. ^ "Jack M. Warner" - Broadcasting Telecasting (11/4/1957)
  8. ^ "SEC Charges Guild Films Failed to Show True Facts" - Broadcasting Telecasting (3/6/1961)
  9. ^ "Film on Tap at NAB Convention" - Sponsor Publications (5/8/1961)
  10. ^ "AAP Buys "Popeye" Films for Tv Station Release" - Broadcasting Telecasting (6/11/1956)
  11. ^ "$1 Million in Warner Films to WOR-TV: 'Eliot Hyman, president of Seven Arts Associated Corp.'" - Broadcasting Telecasting (1/9/1961)
  12. ^ "A Short Q&A With Fred Ladd" - The Colorized Cartoon Database

External links

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