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Threelittlebops4

Friz Freleng brings fairy tales to jazz in Three Little Bops

What's Opera Doc Lobby Card

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

BirdsAnonymousLobbyCard2

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[]

Theatrical Shorts[]

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

Miscellaneous shorts[]

Blue Ribbon Reissues[]

1956-57 Season[]

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

1957-58 Season[]

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

People[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

Warner Club News Stories and Art[]

References[]

  1. https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/comics-by-warren-foster/
  2. Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc. (27 March 1957). Motion Picture Exhibitor 57 (22). Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc. 
  3. Harrison, P.S., ed. (6 April 1957). Harrison's Reports 39 (14). Harrison's Reports, Inc. 


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