Billboard Frolics

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Airdate:
9 November 1935

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:
1611	6999

Copyright Renewed:

11 July 1963^[1]

Crew

Film Editor:

Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Bernard Brown
Norman Spencer (uncredited)

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Billboard Frolics is a 1935 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.

Plot[]

Various signs and billboards come to life and start singing and dancing. A baby chick jumps down from its sign and starts running around. A black cat starts chasing the chick, and other signs try to protect the chick from the cat.

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A scene appears to have been excised from the original release print of this short. An abrupt jump cut in the music score occurs during the scene transition between the exotic dance of the women's outfit and the chick spotting and chasing after the worm.^[3]
Removed from the print on the third volume of Shokus Video's Cartoon Collection series was the sequence wherein the chick, attempting to catch the worm, is inflated with a tire pump.^[3]

Notes[]

This is the last Warner Bros. cartoon filmed in 2-strip Technicolor.
This short is the last one known to use the 1934-35 Merrie Melodies curtain opening titles and Jester curtain ending titles, as the next Merrie Melodies short, "Flowers for Madame", has its opening and ending titles out of order and lost.
This cartoon features the first use of "Merrily We Roll Along" (known as one of two themes associated with the Warner Bros. cartoons; the other being "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"). It would not be regularly used until 1936, beginning with "Boulevardier from the Bronx".
Although this short has only one line of dialogue, the 1995 m/e track is known to exist. It was released with the Captain Blood DVD as a special feature. In addition, the ending card is removed.^[4]