"The Night Watchman" on AH 7/16

[NickM]

Did anyone notice that CN showed "The Night Watchman" (which I believe was, if not the first, one of the first Sniffles cartoons?)

The one thing that struck me was the 1939 Green MM rings and that DIFFERENT BR card! Was that used on the first set of BR reissues (in 1943?), and did they for a time at least try to use the original rings?

Just curious,
NickM

[Jack]

Sniffles didn't come about until "Naughty But Mice," but "The Night Watchman" is Jones' first short.

The opening credits are sort of screwed up on this cartoon, supposedly when they made the dubbed version, the BR title was unrestoreable, so they actually painted a new Blue Ribbon Card, and redid the titles for it. They didn't do too good a job replicating the BR card, IMO, the ribbon was too short, the statue was too small....

"Daffy Duck and Egghead" also had a new BR title made, but just the "Merrie Melodies"part, the title part is left inctact.




Jack:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

When did that fake Blue Ribbon card first come in to use?

-Sveven Dvorking (asks too many questions, gives too few answers)

[William Padron]

I will give a breakdown on these known "dubbed" Blue Ribbon prints of "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (Avery, 1938) and "The Night Watchman" (Jones, 1938) with their newer "faux" opening title cards. "DD&E" was the first seen Turner-owned W-B cartoon presented in this fashion.

"Daffy Duck and Egghead":
1. Opening W-B logo card from the Blue Ribbon version of "Wacky Wildlife" (Avery, 1940).
2. New Blue Ribbon/Merrie Melodies title card with a 1940 copyright on the bottom of screen.
3. Regular film title card shown in the Blue Ribbon format but now upgraded.

"The Night Watchman":
1. Opening W-B logo card from "Count Me Out" (Hardaway-Dalton, 1938) with the Vitaphone name on the top of screen.
2. New Blue Ribbon/Merrie Melodies title card with a 1938 copyright on the bottom of screen.
3. New film title card shown in the Blue Ribbon format.

Also, the newly upgraded Blue Ribbon print of "A Horsefly Fleas" (McKimson, 1948) has the opening W-B logo card in full view (with the green concentric circles), but the Merrie Melodies and film title cards are presented in an orange border/letterbox format. For a while but not in its current cycle, "The Bob Clampett Show" on CN presented "The Hep Cat" (Clampett, 1942) with computer-colorized W-B logo and Looney Tunes opening cards, but with the Merrie Melodies theme still on the soundtrack.

[Thad Komorowski]

It would've been nicer to see the original. It was weird to hear the Merrie Melodies theme, over a Porky in the drum logo.


http://www.toonzone.net/early-years/titles/lt-porkydrum2.jpg


Possibly they did this because they said that it was the first COLOR Looney Tune?

-Thad:D

[hippety hopper]

Originally posted by Thad Komorowski

Possibly they did this because they said that it was the first COLOR Looney Tune?

-Thad:D

I thought "The hep cat" was the first colour Looney tune?

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by hippety hopper


I thought "The hep cat" was the first colour Looney tune?

The Hep Cat IS the first color Looney Tune. Why would anyone think otherwise? Are there colorized versions of one earlier cartoon that are thought to be the original? Taking a guess, but this seems to be an unusual thread.