1957

Friz Freleng brings fairy tales to jazz in Three Little Bops

What's Opera, Doc? depicts an entire Wagnerian epic in 7 minutes

Sylvester and Tweety's comedic take on a serious problem in Birds Anonymous wins them their second Oscar

1957 would see the release of several cartoons that would later be vindicated to modern audiences after the Golden Age. The studio wins yet another Academy Award for Freleng's comedic take on addiction, while Chuck Jones works on one of the most famed cartoons in animation history, "What's Opera, Doc?" There were twenty-five WB cartoons released during this year.

History

• Warren Foster leaves Warner Bros. Cartoons in November to work for John Sutherland Productions.
• The Color Rings change from orange rings green background to red background blue rings for the next two years starting with "Touché and Go".

Theatrical Shorts

1.  "Three Little Bops" (Freleng/January 5)
2.  "Tweet Zoo" (Freleng/January 12) 
3.  "Scrambled Aches" (Jones/January 26)
4.  "Ali Baba Bunny" (Jones/February 9)
5.  "Go Fly a Kit" (Jones/February 23)
6.  "Tweety and the Beanstalk" (Freleng/March 16)
7.  "Bedevilled Rabbit" (McKimson/April 13)
8.  "Boyhood Daze" (Jones/April 20)
9.  "Cheese It, the Cat!" (McKimson/May 4) 
10.  "Fox-Terror" (McKimson/May 11) 
11.  "Piker's Peak" (Freleng/May 25) 
12.  "Steal Wool" (Jones/June 8) 
13.  "Boston Quackie" (McKimson/June 22) 
14.  "What's Opera, Doc?" (Jones/July 6) 
15.  "Tabasco Road" (McKimson/July 20)  
16.  "Birds Anonymous" (Freleng/August 10)  
17.  "Ducking the Devil" (McKimson/August 17)
18.  "Bugsy and Mugsy" (Freleng/August 31)
19.  "Zoom and Bored" (Jones/September 14) 
20.  "Greedy for Tweety" (Freleng/September 28) 
21.  "Touché and Go" (Jones/October 12)
22.  "Show Biz Bugs" (Freleng/November 2)
23.  "Mouse-Taken Identity" (McKimson/November 16)
24.  "Gonzales' Tamales" (Freleng/November 30) 
25.  "Rabbit Romeo" (McKimson/December 14) 

Miscellaneous shorts

• "Drafty, Isn't It?" (Jones) 

Blue Ribbon Reissues

1956-57 Season

1. "Swallow the Leader" (January 19)
2. "For Scent-imental Reasons" (February 2)
3. "Mouse Wreckers" (March 9)
4. "Dough for the Do-Do" (April 6)
5. "Fast and Furry-ous" (April 27)
6. "Bear Feat" (May 18)
7. "Each Dawn I Crow" (June 15)
8. "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (June 29)
9. "Hippety Hopper" (August 24)

1957-58 Season

1. "Hare Splitter" (September 7)
2. "Pop 'Im Pop!" (September 21)
3. "His Bitter Half" (October 19)
4. "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" (November 2)
5. "The Pest That Came to Dinner" (December 7)
6. "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (December 28)

People

Births

• January 16 - Joey Camen
• March 31 - Terry Klassen
• August 7 - Paul Dini
• October 24 - John Kassir
• October 25 - Nancy Cartwright
• October 29 - Dan Castellaneta
• October 31 - Brian Stokes Mitchell
• December 10 - Michael Clarke Duncan

Deaths

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart
• February 5 - Ben Hardaway

Warner Club News Stories and Art

January 1957 - Part 1

January 1957 - Part 2

February 1957 - Part 1

February 1957 - Part 2

March 1957 - Part 1

March 1957 - Part 2

April 1957 - Part 1

April 1957 - Part 2

May 1957 - Part 1

May 1957 - Part 2

June 1957

July 1957 - Part 1

July 1957 - Part 2

August 1957

September 1957 - Part 1

September 1957 - Part 2

October 1957 - Part 1

October 1957 - Part 2

November 1957

December 1957 - Part 1

December 1957 - Part 2

References

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