Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons by Jerry Beck, Will Friedwald Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons
Book Review: Search no more! They're all here!! GREAT GUIDE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This guide is great! Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are a precious part of my life and I am sure they left a mark on the minds of every kid who (like me) grew up watching them. The book is organized by year. On each year, you'll find all the cartoons, its directors, date of release, musical directors, animators and (of course) who stars in it. All the synopses are quite well written and they tell you everything that happened on a particular film. You will also find all the TV specials, the feature films, compilations, unreleased, wartime films, etc.
At the end you will also find title index AND a character index.
The only fault is the lack of illustrations. I do think this guide deserves a new and improved edition with more space and more pages for color illustrations.
Still a great buy!
Book Review: This Book Lists 'Em All!
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked what most of the reviewers had to say about this book. For anybody who is a fan of the animated Warner Bros. cartoons, this book is a must for you. It's hard to keep up with the titles of certain cartoons (I mean how many people know the singing frog cartoon as "One Froggy Evening" or the cartoon featuring "Tea For Two" with the tapdance duet with Bugs and Daffy as "Show Biz Bugs"?). This guide deals with them all (one reviewer says this is 1,000)- from the beginning with the black and white Bosco cartoons (1930)to the early days of Porky Pig (no, Mel Blanc was not the original voice; he didn't supply Porky's voice until about 1938), to the evolution of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd (Mel Blanc was not the original voice of this character either; Arthur Q Bryan was), Daffy Duck, Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, the 1st color Looney Tune (circa 1942), to the introduction of Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, the Roadrunner and Coyote, Sylvester, jr, the Tasmanian Devil (who became very famous despite the fact that he was only in about 4 cartoons during this period of 4 decades), to the closing of the Warner Bros studio in 1969 (whose final days brought us many forgettable catoon characters like Cool Cat and Merlin the Magical Mouse).
It mentions who directed each cartoon (Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, and others) who composed the music (often Carl Stalling or Milt Franklyn), and includes a synopsis of each and every cartoon.
A lot of hard work went into putting this together, obviously. If you loved these cartoons as a kid and still do, this book is for you! Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!
Book Review: This is one of the most interesting books I have ever read.
Summary: 4 Stars
This a very entertaining and informative book. It's a book with detailed descriptions of EVERY SINGLE Warner Bros. cartoon ever made. This book even lists TV specials, compilations, episodes of "the Bugs Bunny Show", the "Pvt. Snafu" cartoons made for the Army (and written by Dr. Seuss!), it even lists the pilot cartoon made in 1929! But, I would like to know how they came up with the ideas for certain cartoons instead of just a plot synopses.Book Review: Truly a Fantastic Resource!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like me grew up watching those great old Warner brothers cartoons and still love them, this book is for you. Listing virtually every cartoon the Warner brothers studio put out from the 1930s through the late 1980s was quite a task. And I'm sure Beck & Friedwald must have thought it would never end ("sayyyy, there's something awfully screwwy goin on around here!" to quote Elmer Fudd).Yeah by year each cartoon that was ever made is listed, complete with the people who produced it, date of original release, list of characters, and the plot and story of the cartoon. There's even a list at the back of the book of all the network TV cartoon specials.
If you've ever read anything about the cartoonists that did these cartoons, you know they were probably a bit loony themselves. But Thank God, they had such a creative outlet for their looneyness!
The book is 11 years old, and I would love to see an updated version. Even so, if you're a Warner brothers cartoon fan like me and want a book that is an excellent resource for all these great old cartoons, this book is a must!
Book Review: Very enjoyable history of the cartoon world!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always been interested in WB cartoons, but I never thought a book about them could be so interesting! It makes it possible to understand all the reality's behind a cartoon, and I learnt some pretty cool secrets!