The Delbert Cartoon Report

It was 1969....Scooby-Doo and Sesame Street made their big debut, Woodstock was hot, and man put his first step on the moon.  It looked like major changes were coming for the better.  That is........unless you were a Looney Tunes fan.  78 black and white cartoons were taken to Korea, retraced, and recolored to make them look "better than ever".....or so they thought.  Today, we commemorate (but not necessarily celebrate) these colorized versions of these cartoons debuting 50 years ago on TV.  We'll break down why did these happen, who commissioned them to do it, and the aftermath of it all. First let's go back to 1955 when Looney Tunes made their first TV appearance.  Many movie studios sold their films and short subjects catalogs to TV distributors for money in the bank DESPITE AT THAT TIME movies and TV were fierce enemies.  In this case, a small distributor called Sunset Productions bought the black and white Looney Tunes (save for the Harmon...

Over the course of a year, the official Popeye Youtube channel has been uploading all the 1960's Popeye cartoons.  You know the ones.....cheap in quality and Bluto is now Brutus.  Well, finally, at last the job is done.  However, they organized them 4 at a time per episode (in chronological order).  So now comes the daunting task of listing each and every cartoon per episode.  But that's not all, there will also be notes with each one if needed, AND each one will be labeled as which studio did them.  Let's get started Episode 1 Hit and Missles (Paramount Cartoons)  NOTE:  First episode and only one to give Paramount credit Plumbers Pipe Dream (Jack Kinney) Jeep Tale (Jack Kinney) From Way Out (Gene Deitch) Episode 2 Hoppy Jalopy (Larry Harmon) Popeye's Pep Up Emporium (Jack Kinney) Baby Phase (TV Spots) Weather Watchers (Jack Kinney) Episode 3 Golden-Type Fleece (Jack Kinney) Dead Eye Popeye (Larry Harmon) Coffee House...