"Odor Of The Day"... Turner Owned?

[Nick]

I was looking at www.nonstick.com and found this in the FAQ page.

(This information is somewhat dated today, it must of been put up before 1996)


Turner currently holds the rights to all color cartoons copyrighted prior to Sept. 1, 1948 plus all black-and-white Harman/Ising Merrie Melodies except 1931's "Lady Play Your Mandolin". Warner owns all the rest, and both companies claim to own 1948's "Odor of the Day".

I've always thought "Odor Of The Day" was owned just by Warner Bros. Is it true that Turner claimed to own it and why? "Odor Of The Day" was released after September 1 1948, IIRC.

[Daffyfan2003]

I guess that makes sense since there's a debate as to whether or not that skunk really was Pepe le Pew. Maybe that was a Turner owned skunk that resembled Pepe.

[rodney]

Huh? What does the star of the cartoon have to do with who owned it?

[Do-Do]

I've heard that too, but back in the days of when the WB & Turner packages were always kept apart from each other, Odor Of The Day always ended up on stations with the WB package.

[Steve Carras]

I've heard that too, but back in the days of when the WB & Turner packages were always kept apart from each other, Odor Of The Day always ended up on stations with the WB package.
Same here on all accounts. This was one of the first produced WARNER owned shorts in reissue and syndications (not to mention the ones like HARE DO, PEST THAT CAME TO DINNER,etc.intervoven with such PRE-48 aka "ex-a.a.ap." titles like HAREDEVIL HARE*,THE UPSTANDING SITTER**, THE SHELLSHOCKED EGG< RATTLED ROOSTER,BONE SWEETBONE,etc.) with its Cinecolor processing making it a very easily turned out cartoon (the lack of dialogue and the presence of onlyh the dog and skunk helping no doubt) - but the design (this being true especiallhy of McKimson and Davis but also for some of the stuff by Jones and Freleng) seemed already _retro-early 40s)--heck, as I've mentioned McKimson was still using "Disneyish Goofy/Mickey" types with HUMAN characters (PAYING THE PIPER,a post-48,etc.)



Footnotes-----
---*HAREDEVIL HARE (released: 7/24/48) was the last released "pre-48" Warner cartoon.The one following it, the first POST-48 of the exlusive group to be released (despite Technicolor,Inc.backlogging many earlier ones from 1947-49 of course, was YOU WERE NEVER DUCKIER,(released: 8/7/48-Warner voice Stan Freberg's birthdayh,by the way) a longtime favorite in the final decades of the BUGS Sat AM shows.Coincidentally, both had the same director, Chuck Jones.:)

----**THE UPSTANDING SITTER (released: 7/03/48, incorrectly mentioned as 7/13/47-add THAT to the "Misconceptions" lists of earlier threads...) was the last PRODUCED cartoon to be eventually sold off to "Associated Artists" productions in 1957. (The toon in between was THE SHELL SHCOKED EGG, reeleased on 7/17/48-this and SITTER being directed by McKimson)

[David Gerstein]

ODOR OF THE DAY was shown repeatedly on TBS and/or TNT around 1990. Evidently, Turner had a print and believed they were in the right to show it.

[Captchucky]

WGN in Chicago also showed "Odor of the Day" with the pre-Sept. 1948 package, along with "Hare-Do" and "Bone Sweet Bone." I remember all three clearly as a a part of my early childhood. I certainly saw all three of those on WGN pre-1962.

[Daffyfan2003]

Huh? What does the star of the cartoon have to do with who owned it?

I don't know. I was just sort of guessing. I really don't know much about Turner cartoons and since we really don't know who that skunk was, it was just a thought I had.