Thanks to historian and voice artist Keith Scott for providing me with some incredible research material that has allowed me to fill in many holes in The WB Production Number Project. The near entirety of the production numbers for the 1944-49 release seasons is now present and accounted for. I’ll have more to say on Warner cartoon trivialities in the coming months, thanks largely to Keith, who also keeps pushing me to write a book on the studio. Hmmm.
Excessive, Isn’t He?
Filed under classic animation
As well you should.
You totally need to write a book on Warners.
Ah, the seamy underbelly of the studio exposed. The politics! The egos and insecurities of the directors!
Good luck getting Warners to give you permission to use any artwork.
I second, third and fourth the push to write that book.
Awesome find! Is that screenshot from A Pest That Came To Dinner?
Having the production numbers makes it easy to recreate the original openings for the Blue Ribbon releases with credits. All that’s needed is some tinkering on PhotoShop and fake fade-ins. Granted, undergoing such a task would be obsessive, but the legion of Looney Tunes nerds would revere him as God.
Oh, and by the way, here’s a list of the 1944-49 releases that still have unknown numbers.
Daffy Dilly – (In Cinecolor)
Hen House Henery
Often an Orphan
Dough For the Do-Do – (In Cinecolor)
Bye, Bye, Bluebeard
Hippety Hopper
Bear Feat
Out of these, the one easier to speculate is Bye, Bye, Bluebeard (Art Davis’ last director credit), which is probably either 1097, 1098 or 1101, placing it before A Ham in a Role (started by Davis, finished by McKimson). The rest, who knows?
It’s probably 1101