looney tunes merrie melodies

looney tunes merrie melodies

looney tunes merrie melodies. As Walt Disney's animated cartoons became more and more popular, the other studies took note. Warner Brothers wanted something right away, so they hired producer Leon Schlesinger. It was Schlesinger who had the insight to hire two Disney animators, Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising, who had worked with Disney since the early 1920s. Out of work and on their own, the two were looking to start a new cartoon studio and so created a pilot film, "Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid," one of the first cartoons to include synchronized speech. Schlesinger convinced Warner Bros. to produce a series of cartoons starring Bosko, called "Looney Tunes." April 1930 saw the first Looney Tunes cartoon, "Sinkin' In the Bathtub", a milestone in animation history, with Bosko and Honey. Bosko would continue to star along with his girlfriend Honey and dog Bruno. (The group was not unlike Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto). As with Mickey Mouse, Bosko would appear in a variety of professions from aviator to lumberjack. The Looney Tunes were produced at one a month for a year, when a second series of cartoons called "Merrie Melodies" was created. By this time, Harmon and Ising had in turn hired Isadore "Friz" Freleng.