Loopy De Loop opening & closing titles

[Jon Cooke]

Jack was curious about the opening/closing titles to Hanna-Barbera's Loopy De Loop cartoons (which were released theatrically by Columbia Pictures) a few weeks ago. Here is what they look like, Jack:

Opening titles: Picture 1 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-01.jpg) | Picture 2 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-02.jpg) | Picture 3 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-03.jpg)

Closing titles: Picture 1 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-04.jpg) | Picture 2 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-05.jpg) | Picture 3 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-06.jpg) | Picture 4 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-07.jpg) | Picture 5 (http://looney.toonzone.net/picts/loopy-08.jpg)

Of course, pictures 3 & 4 usually varied from cartoon - to- cartoon.

For those with Boomerang, they are running one Loopy De Loop cartoon during the Snagglepuss show every Monday - Thursday.


-Jon

[Jack]

Thanks Jon! Strangely, I don't really remember seeing many of those. Maybe they cut off the theatrical titles when I saw them last.

It's interesting just how much the Loopy cartoons look like the TV cartoons H-B made at the same time, right down to the style of the titles.


Jack :D

[Thad Komorowski]

Well, the credits ended the cartoon, unlike them being at the opening of the cartoon, like all the other H-B cartoons. The Walter Lantz studio did that format for a few years in the early forties.


-Thad

[J Lee]

Ironically, when CBS started running Tom & Jerry as part of their Saturday morning line-up, that's also the way MGM ran the credits -- Short opening title over the ending music from the original cartoon, and at the end, where "The End" and "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" cartoon went, the Jones unit created new title credits. The move by MGM was made after Columbia stopped distributing the Loopy De Loop theatricals.