1949

The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote debut in Fast and Furry-ous

Chuck Jones wins his only Oscar with Pepé Le Pew's For Scent-imental Reasons

Bugs Bunny with Doris Day and Jack Carson in My Dream Is Yours

Bugs Bunny makes a cameo in It's a Great Feeling

Leon Schlesinger dies of viral infection.

1949 nets more revolutionary gains for the Warner Bros. studio, with two cartoons this year winning an Academy Award. Around this period, the group of mainline characters is more established, with common plot formulas now being established for majority of them. Thirty-four shorts were released this year.

Notes

• Bugs Bunny makes a cameo in the two films My Dream Is Yours and It's a Great Feeling. The former features a cameo by Tweety.
• The final cartoons directed by Arthur Davis' unit are released, and from here on out the three-unit system of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Robert McKimson is implemented that would last through 1964.

Theatrical Shorts

1.  "Wise Quackers" (Freleng/January 1) 
2.  "Hare Do" (Freleng/January 15)
3.  "Holiday for Drumsticks" (Davis/January 22)
4.  "Awful Orphan" (Jones/January 29) 
5.  "Porky Chops" (Davis/February 12)
6.  "Mississippi Hare" (Jones/February 26) 
7.  "Paying the Piper" (McKimson/March 12) 
8.  "Daffy Duck Hunt" (McKimson/March 26) 
9.  "Rebel Rabbit" (McKimson/April 9) 
10.  "Mouse Wreckers" (Jones/April 23)  
11.  "High Diving Hare" (Freleng/April 30) 
12.  "The Bee-Deviled Bruin" (Jones/May 14) 
13.  "Curtain Razor" (Freleng/May 21)
14.  "Bowery Bugs" (Davis/June 4) 
15.  "Mouse Mazurka" (Freleng/June 11) 
16.  "Long-Haired Hare" (Jones/June 25)
17.  "Henhouse Henery" (McKimson/July 2) 
18.  "Knights Must Fall" (Freleng/July 16) 
19.  "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (Freleng/July 23) 
20.  "The Grey Hounded Hare" (McKimson/August 6) 
21.  "Often an Orphan" (Jones/August 13) 
22.  "The Windblown Hare" (McKimson/August 27)
23.  "Dough for the Do-Do" (Freleng/September 3) 
24.  "Fast and Furry-ous" (Jones/September 17) 
25.  "Each Dawn I Crow" (Freleng/September 23) 
26.  "Frigid Hare" (Jones/October 7)
27.  "Swallow the Leader" (McKimson/October 14) 
28.  "Bye, Bye Bluebeard" (Davis/October 21) 
29.  "For Scent-imental Reasons" (Jones/November 12)  
30.  "Hippety Hopper" (McKimson/November 19) 
31.  "Which Is Witch" (Freleng/December 3)
32.  "Bear Feat" (Jones/December 10) 
33.  "Rabbit Hood" (Jones/December 24) 
34.  "A Ham in a Role" (Davis, McKimson/December 31) 

Miscellaneous shorts

• "So Much for So Little" (Jones, Freleng/January 1)  

Blue Ribbon Reissues

1948-49 Season

1. "Bedtime for Sniffles" (January 1)
2. "Prest-O Change-O" (February 5)
3. "Swooner Crooner" (February 12)
4. "Hop, Skip and a Chump" (March 5)
5. "He Was Her Man" (April 2)
6. "I Wanna Be a Sailor" (April 30)
7. "Flop Goes the Weasel" (May 21)
8. "Horton Hatches the Egg" (June 18)
9. "The Egg Collector" (July 16)
10. "The Mice Will Play" (August 6)
11. "Inki and the Minah Bird" (August 20)

1949-50 Season

1. "Tom Thumb in Trouble" (September 24)
2. "Farm Frolics" (October 15)
3. "The Hep Cat" (November 12)
4. "Toy Trouble" (December 31)

Character Debuts

• February 26 - Colonel Shuffle in "Mississippi Hare"
• March 12 - The Supreme Cat in "Paying the Piper"
• June 25 - Giovanni Jones in "Long-Haired Hare"
• September 17 - Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner in "Fast and Furry-ous"
• October 8 - Playboy Penguin in "Frigid Hare"
• November 12 - Penelope Pussycat in "For Scent-imental Reasons"
• December 24 - Sheriff of Nottingham and Little John in "Rabbit Hood"

People

Births

• May 21 - Will Ryan
• June 29 - Gregory Lewis Burson

Deaths

• December 25 - Leon Schlesinger (aged 65)

Warner Club News Stories and Art

Apr. 1949

May 1949

Front cover of the June 1949 issue

June 1949 - Part 1

June 1949 - Part 2

July 1949

Aug. 1949

Oct. 1949

Nov. 1949 - Part 1

Nov. 1949 - Part 2

Dec. 1949

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