Honeymoon Hotel is a 1934 Merrie Melodies short directed by Earl Duvall.
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"Honeymoon Hotel" is a song written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin for the 1933 WB musical Footlight Parade.
Plot[]
An insect community sings while advertising the city of Bugtown. Meanwhile, a ladybug couple gets married and stays in the titular hotel for their honeymoon. The couple heads to their room to unpack, while a rogue gangster fly tries to peek in the rooms by looking at the keyhole, but is socked by the doorknobs. The hotel workers continue sing while providing service for the couple, although they (and the moon) all continue to try to peep at the couple.
However, the hotel eventually catches on fire. The firefighters tries to put out the fire while the patrons tries to escape the burning building. The couple tries to find an exit, but all of their doors are blocked. The two hides in a reclining bed behind a wall. Eventually the building implodes heavily from the damage, but the ladybug couple manages to remain unscathed and continue their honeymoon on the reclining bed.
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Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 2, Side 1: Musical Madness
Footlight Parade (1995 Turner dubbed version)
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 (restored)
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- This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon produced in color.
- It is also one of two Merrie Melodies cartoons produced in Cinecolor in 1934, the other being "Beauty and the Beast". Hence, both shorts carry the "Processed by Cinecolor, Inc." credit below their opening credits.
- After that, the series briefly went back to black-and-white, then to color again using two-strip Technicolor (and later three-strip Technicolor after the Walt Disney Studio's exclusive license to the three-strip process ended). Looney Tunes, however, remained black-and-white until "The Hep Cat" (1942).
- The studio wouldn't return to producing color cartoons in Cinecolor again until 1947's "House Hunting Mice" 13 years later, where a handful of non-Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons produced between 1947-1949 were processed in two-strip Cinecolor to save money, before phasing out Cinecolor completely after 1949's "Dough for the Do-Do".
- Both American and European Turner "dubbed" versions of this short kept the original ending title card with a "dubbed" 1995 notice.
- Like most of the remaining shorts that have not been restored, in 2020, Warner Bros. restored and remastered this short. The restoration eventually aired on 4 March 2022, on MeTV's Toon In With Me block.
- Although the cartoon was produced in Cinecolor, the backgrounds were originally painted in full color. Due to the limitations of the two-color Cinecolor color process, most of the intended renderings of other colors such as bright greens and purples are muted to dark green and dark magenta hues in the final product.
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References[]
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
- ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 32.