Even more Blue Ribbons!

[Jon Cooke]

By popular demand, I have added even more Blue Ribbons to my little Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies Page! Check it out! :D

http://looney.toonzone.net/blueribbon.html


-Jon

[Tintin]

Check your PM for more BR images. :D

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Cartoon Man
Check your PM for more BR images. :D

Yay! More Blue Ribbons! Thanks, Martin! :D


-Jon

[Jon Cooke]

Hmm... no comments. :(

For some reason, I like that "From Hand to Mouse" BR card on Page 5.

-Jon

[Matthew Hunter]

Why did they make "Prest O Change O" and "Sioux Me" look cool, and so many of the others are so plain?
-Matthew

[Pietro]

Hey Jon! Expect a PM fro me soon, now that my capture card's fixed, I'm sending you a few more "Blue Ribbon" titles, including "The Isle of Pingo-Pongo.":D

-Pietro:D

[Jack]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
Why did they make "Prest O Change O" and "Sioux Me" look cool, and so many of the others are so plain?
-Matthew
I think that when all the reissue dates for the cartoons are sorted out we'll start seeing patterns, years in which they had a little more fun with the lettering, and years they didn't.

Maybe most of the titles were hastily prepared, and it was only once in a while that they (Don Foster?) would put a little more effort and design into it. Other cards with standout lettering are "Life With Feathers," "The Eager Beaver," "Tick Tock Tuckered," and "Pigs in A Polka."

Great updates, though.

Jack :D

[Thad Komorowski]

Nice job, Jon! Title cards are fun to view! :D :p :cool:


-Thad

[Pilmedium]

They all look weird and not creative to me. Will they ever restore the original titles? :rolleyes:

[J Lee]

The re-release years aren't that hard to figure out -- pretty much the color of the rings on the Blue Ribbon releases correspond to the color of the rings on the new releases Warners was putting out at the same time (except for those palid-looking rings used in the first 1 1/2 season of the BR series which corresponded to nothing and alternated with the blue rings from the 1944 release season).

You can also tell a non-Schlesinger pre-1948 BR re-release from a post-48 one by looking at the BR title card -- if it says "In Technicolor" it was re-released between 1945 and 1948 and if it says "Color by Technicolor" it was re-released from 1949 onward. That way you can tell the difference between a 1946 season re-release and a 1952 season one, since both use the same opening ring colors (This also works for the first season of the BRs that weren't shorn of animation credits ; the 1956-57 releases say "Color by Technicolor" and the ones from then on had just "Technicolor" with the register mark).

[William Padron]

In reply to...

>Hmm... no comments. :(

Actually, I believe IMHO that this newly expanded "Blue Ribbon" section of the web page is probably the most elaborate and detailed addition ever created in the history of your web page. Looking all the different Blue Ribbon title cards, I can sense an evolution change and individual characteristic identity in each of these reissued cartoons.

Just like the attached A.A.P. logo as part of the overall legacy of the pre-1948 Warner Bros. cartoons, the "Blue Ribbons" is as necessary as part of the animation studio's history as well. I would like to see soon here on the web page the earlier "Blue Ribbon-Merrie Melodies" title card with the credit "Produced By Leon Schlesinger" shown, as well as the later one (circa 1955-56) with the "MM" logo centered almost to the right of the screen (not blocking the "BR" however).