Color Backgrounds Of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Technicolor Toons

[Waggytoon]

If Dave Mackey is till around, I have an idea to update your Warner Bros. Cartoon Color Guide.
Perhaps you could be able to present images of the different color backgrounds used on the openings and closings of the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts cartoons from 1967-1969. It was kind of a throwback to those classic 'various season color rings' motif, but with the modern openings and closings featured.
You see, W7 decided to try different color backgrounds for some of their shorts, and the results show up on Cartoon Network. So perhaps downloading images of the modern openings and closings for the W7 releases with the various color backgrounds for each would complete the page to the fullest!
Go for it, Dave! I'm sure everyone would like to see those different color background variations of the late 1960s W7 openings and closings. Especially me, since the toons are on CN, and I have taped most of them- though they don't look too good nowadays when I play them back on my VCR. :cool: ;) :bosko:

[Matthew Hunter]

ummm....I thought there were only two colors, black and blue, and black was phased out eventually.
-Matthew

[TServo2049]

Matthew is right. All the other background colors were supposed to be blue, but actually changed color due to print deterioration (the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts cartoons have had horrible prints on TV recently...)

[Waggytoon]

If you notice, the logo and labeling varied from toon to toon somewhat as well. So perhaps I should rephrase my idea by actually featuring all the different Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Technicolor openings and closings with the various color schemes for the logo and labeling of the shorts.
There were some toons that had different color schemes for those openings and closings, and I figured perhaps downloading images of the black and blue backgrounds with the different colors for the logo and label would enhance the Color Rings Guide to the max. :cool: :bosko:

[Dave Mackey]

Hello, all...

Yes, I am still around. I don't think I can really take the WB pages any further at this point, as far as documenting the title card variations for the W7 cartoons. The suggestions are good... who knows? Maybe someday....

[Bum]

There ARE several different color schemes used in the lettering [one of them appears to be entirely in pastels], but the pictures as they appear on Dave's page are small enough that these particular color differences may not be noticable. One set of graphics that WOULD be visible [and are currently missing from Dave's page] are the WHITE background "modern" opening graphics from '62-64 [and are the only classic WB cartoons which do not have either the "Vitaphone" or "Vitagraph" designation on them ANYWHERE......]

[J Lee]

One does -- the last of the four and the first D-FE cartoon, "Pancho's Hideaway." But while the opening LT graphic and the end titles have a white background, the Vitaphone logo was done in the usual white lettering with a black background, making it look particularly chinzy. So instead of changing the Vitaphone type, they just switched the backgrounds to black instead.