1936

"Page Miss Glory" experimented animation and Art Deco.

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

"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.
• Beans makes his final appearance.
• 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?
• Frank Tashlin directs his first cartoon, "Porky's Poultry Plant", replacing Jack King's previous directing role.
• Carl Stalling composes his first cartoon, "Porky's Poultry Plant", and Milt Franklyn does orchestrations, playing a variety of musical instruments. He would later be a musical director in the 1950s.
• Mel Blanc joins the Termite Terrace crew.

Theatrical Shorts

1.  "Plane Dippy" (Avery/January 4)
2.  "I Wanna Play House" (Freleng/January 11)
3.  "Alpine Antics" (King/January 18)
4.  "The Phantom Ship" (King/February 1)
5.  "The Cat Came Back" (Freleng/February 8) 
6.  "Boom Boom" (King/February 29) 
7.  "Page Miss Glory" (Avery/March 7)
8.  "The Blow Out" (Avery/April 4)
9.  "I'm a Big Shot Now" (Freleng/April 11) 
10.  "Westward Whoa" (King/April 25) 
11.  "Let It Be Me" (Freleng/May 2) 
12.  "I'd Love to Take Orders from You" (Avery/May 16)
13.  "Fish Tales" (King/May 23)
14.  "Bingo Crosbyana" (Freleng/May 30)
15.  "Shanghaied Shipmates" (King/June 20)
16.  "When I Yoo Hoo" (Freleng/June 27) 
17.  "Porky's Pet" (King/July 11)
18.  "I Love to Singa" (Avery/July 18) 
19.  "Porky the Rain-Maker" (Avery/August 1)
20.  "Sunday Go to Meetin' Time" (Freleng/August 8) 
21.  "Porky's Poultry Plant" (Tashlin/August 22)
22.  "At Your Service Madame" (Freleng/August 29)
23.  "Porky's Moving Day" (King/September 12)
24.  "Toy Town Hall" (Freleng/September 19)
25.  "Milk and Money" (Avery/October 3)
26.  "Boulevardier from the Bronx" (Freleng/October 10)
27.  "Don't Look Now" (Avery/November 7) 
28.  "Little Beau Porky" (Tashlin/November 14)
29.  "The CooCoo Nut Grove" (Freleng/November 28)
30.  "The Village Smithy" (Avery/December 5)
31.  "Porky in the North Woods" (Tashlin/December 19)

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