Early Color Merrie Melodies Avoided by CN

[Sveven Dvorking]

(although some do show up rarely)

Honeymoon Hotel
The Lady in Red (mexican?)
I'm a Big Shot Now
He Was Her Man
Sweet Sioux
My Little Buckeroo
The Major Lied Till Dawn
A-Lad-In Baghdad
Little Pancho Vanilla
Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
You're an Education
Bars and Stripes Forever
Sioux Me
The Early Worm gets the Bird
Mighty Hunters
Confederate Honey
The Hardship of Miles Standish
Ceiling Hero
Malibu Beach Party
The Bug Parade
Saddle Silly
The Sheepish Wolf
Flop goes the Weasel
The Unbearable Bear

[Patrick McCart]

Most of those cartoons have Indian or Mexican stereotypes.

Also, Honeymoon Hotel has nothing bad in it...the Cinecolor makes it look REALLY old and the cartoon would need to be remastered from the negatives (or the original master) to look good.

Remember, most pre-1948's are really old prints that have been used a lot.

[snowpeck]

Yeah, back in 1946 or 1947 when they switched to Cinecolor for a while, those prints look really horrible. Even the dubbed versions!
I was glad that they switched back to Technicolor fairly quickly.

gcb

[Jack]

Yeah, it's a good thing the TECHNICOLOR strike ended and we were given glorious red dynamite again. A few of the prints are pretty good, though, like Daffy Dilly, but it was reissued with a Technicolor print, so that could explain why it, and other reissues, don't look as bad as originals.

Davis' cartoon look the most faded, but I think Davis helped because of the color palate he used in various cartoons (more muted, even "The Stupor Salesman" looks faded, but it's Technicolor).


Jack:D