This is a list of all theatrical animated shorts released by Warner Bros. Pictures under the Looney Tunes (LT) and Merrie Melodies (MM) banners between the years of 1960 and 1969.
A total of 146 shorts were released under the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies banners during the 1960s (144 official and 2 cut downs).
Series overview
1960
1961
1962 Milt Franklyn, a musical composer who had been with the studio since 1947 and succeeded Carl W. Stalling, dies from a heart attack in April of this year. William Lava permanently takes over as music composer following Mother Was a Rooster.
Chuck Jones is fired after breaching contact by working on Gay Purr-ee at UPA.Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 562–563; Friz Freleng leaves Warner Bros. in November 1962.
1963 Warner Bros. Cartoons shuts down this year.
1964 Production on cartoons is outsourced to DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, beginning with Pancho's Hideaway.
1965
1966
1967 This year, Seven Arts Productions, which had just acquired Warner Bros., brings cartoon production in-house, with William L. Hendricks as producer and Alex Lovy as director. Speedy Ghost to Town is the first cartoon under this new studio.
1968
1969 All cartoons are directed by Robert McKimson and written by Cal Howard. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation shuts down this year.
Notes
References
External links
The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for and for Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke