Friday, December 7, 2007

Blue Ribbons: What if...

What if Warner Bros. got the notion to restore the credits to the Merrie Melodies cartoons that have no original titles available? Judging by the Golden Collection DVDs, they've found plenty of the original titles, but some are still missing. Would it be too much to ask if they created new title cards to give credit to the people known to have been credited? They did something like that for the music cue for "Bashful Buzzard" on the latest collection. Here's an idea, using an animation drawing of Sniffles, Photoshop, and a couple crappy Youtube files, of how they might go about recreating titles for "Bedtime for Sniffles".

The bullseye/tunnel titles are from "Confederate Honey", made the same year, 1940. The title card is my own creation, using an animation drawing of Sniffles.

1 comment:

J Lee said...

Well, the WHV people are improving -- Remember, for Vol. 2, they didn't try to recreate the opening titles for "Tweetie Pie", even though the music was widely available via the alternate AAP print of the cartoon (IIRC, Jerry said they didn't want to fake anything on the actual cartoon, and I suppose they didn't think at the time about doing a recreation as a bonus feature).

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