1936

"" experimented animation and Art Deco. — "Page Miss Glory" experimented animation and Art Deco.

defends their usage of celebrity parodies in shorts like "". — Warner Bros. defends their usage of celebrity parodies in shorts like "Bingo Crosbyana".

"" established the evolution of Warner Bros.' emerging comedy style. — "I Love to Singa" established the evolution of Warner Bros.' emerging comedy style.

1936 would continue Warner Bros.' animation evolution as new directors like Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin began to emerge, and Tex Avery would continue Warner Bros.' evolution via both Porky-based Looney Tunes and one-shot color Merrie Melodies cartoons.

History[]

The opening color rings that are now associated with the cartoons start to be used in Merrie Melodies. "I Wanna Play House" used a special variation: the 1935 "WARNER BROS. PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION" type. All future Merrie Melodies cartoons featured the WB shield zooming in and the words "VITAPHONE" and "Presents" being added above and below, respectively.
For Looney Tunes, "The Phantom Ship" used the above "VITAPHONE" and "Presents", but "Westward Whoa", "The Blow Out", "Alpine Antics", and "Plane Dippy" continued to use the 1935 "WARNER BROS. PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION" until "Fish Tales" when the zooming WB shield started to be used.
The "Porky Signature" theme debuts, starting with "The Village Smithy". This theme would only be used for the 1936-37 season.
Later, the theme was also changed to "Merrily We Roll Along", first heard in "Boulevardier from the Bronx". "I Wanna Play House" also includes the "That's all Folks!" ending sequence with the lowercase "f," which would be used until "The Isle of Pingo Pongo".
Jack King leaves Warner Bros. after getting an offer from Disney to direct their color Donald Duck shorts, which he accepted due to frustration that the color Merrie Melodies were being kept to other directors like Tex Avery and Friz Freleng.
The entire cast introduced in "I Haven't Got a Hat" a year earlier (including Beans, Little Kitty, Oliver Owl and Ham and Ex) is retired outside Porky with the short "Westward Whoa".
The rings change from a dark blue to a lighter blue in the 1936-37 season, starting with "The CooCoo Nut Grove".
Bob Clampett is promoted to director and directs the opening of the 1937 film When's Your Birthday?^[1]
Frank Tashlin directs his first cartoon, "Porky's Poultry Plant", replacing Jack King's previous directing role.
Former Disney and Ub Iwerks music director Carl Stalling composes his first cartoon for Warner Brothers, "Porky's Poultry Plant", beginning a long partnership that would last for 22 years. He is joined on orchestrations by Milt Franklyn does orchestrations, playing a variety of musical instruments; Franklyn would later be a musical director in the 1950s and early 1960s until his death in 1962.
Mel Blanc joins the Termite Terrace crew.^[2]