Although the old cartoons continued to be reissued, Warner Bros.
decided to contract with the emergent DePatie-Freleng studio to create 26 new
cartoons, featuring mainly Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. DePatie-Freleng was
creating its own roster of stars for a United Artists release schedule, yet
still found time to create these cartoons listed below for their old bosses.
Friz Freleng directed the first few, then gave the remainder to Robert McKimson
(with one credit going to transplanted New Yorker Irv Spector). The artists were
the same for both sets of cartoons.
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It's Nice To
Have A Mouse Around The House
Rel 1/16/65 - MPAA 20821 - LT
Dir: Friz Freleng - Co-Dir: Hawley Pratt - Story: John Dunn -- Anim: Don
Williams, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
- Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc, Gege Pearson - Music: Bill Lava
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Cats And Bruises
Rel 1/30/65 - MPAA 20823 - MM
Dir: Friz Freleng - Co-Dir: Hawley Pratt - Story: John Dunn - Anim: Bob Matz,
Norm McCabe, Don Williams, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Lee Halpern - Layout:
Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel
Blanc - Music: Bill Lava
Video: "The Looney Tunes Video Show No. 2".
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The Wild Chase
Rel 2/27/65 - MPAA 20890 - MM
Dir: Friz Freleng - Co-Dir: Hawley Pratt - Story: John Dunn - Anim: Norm McCabe,
Don Williams, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Laverne Harding - Layout: Dick Ung
- Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc -
Music: Bill Lava
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Moby Duck
Rel 3/27/65 - MPAA ????? - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: John Dunn - Anim: Don Williams, Manny Perez,
Warren Batchelder, Bob Matz, Laverne Harding, Norm McCabe - Layout: Dick Ung -
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editors: Lee Gunther, Treg Brown - VC: Mel
Blanc - Music: Bill Lava
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Assault And Peppered
Rel 4/24/65 - MPAA ????? - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: John Dunn - Anim: Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder,
Bob Matz, Laverne Harding, Norm McCabe, Don Williams - Layout: Dick Ung -
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc - Music:
Bill Lava
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Well Worn Daffy
Rel 5/22/65 - MPAA ????? - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Warren Batchelder, Bob Matz,
Laverne Harding, Norm McCabe, Don Williams, Manny Perez - Layout: Dick Ung -
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc - Music:
Bill Lava
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Suppressed Duck
Rel 6/26/65 - MPAA ????? - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Bob Matz, Manny Perez,
Warren Batchelder - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Ron Dias - Film Editor: Lee
Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc - Music: Bill Lava
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Corn On The Cop
Rel 7/24/65 - MPAA 20936 - MM
Dir: Irv Spector - Story: Friz Freleng - Anim: Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder,
Bob Matz - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee
Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc, Joanie Gerber - Music: Bill Lava
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Rushing Roulette
Rel 7/31/65 - MPAA 21014 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Bob Matz, Manny Perez,
Warren Batchelder, Norm McCabe, Don Williams - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds:
Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - Music: Bill Lava
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Tease For Two
Rel 8/28/65 - MPAA ????? - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Warren Batchelder, Bob Matz,
Manny Perez - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee
Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc - Music: Bill Lava
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Chili Corn Corny
Rel 10/23/65 - MPAA ????? - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Manny Perez, Warren
Batchelder, Bob Matz - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film
Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc, Gonzales Gonzales - Music: Bill Lava
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Go Go Amigo
Rel 11/20/65 - MPAA 21134 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Warren Batchelder, Bob Matz,
Manny Perez - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: George deLado - Film Editor: Lee
Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc, Gonzales Gonzales - Music: Bill Lava
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The Astroduck
Rel 1/1/66 - MPAA 21138 - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Anim: Bob Matz, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Don
Williams, George Grandpré, Norm McCabe - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom
O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc - Music: Bill Lava
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Mucho Locos
Rel 2/5/66 - MPAA 21171 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: David Detiege - Anim: Manny Perez, George
Grandpré, Bob Matz - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film
Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc, Gonzales Gonzales - Music: Herman Stein
Footage reuse: Robin Hood Daffy, Deduce You Say, China Jones.
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Mexican Mousepiece
Rel 2/26/66 - MPAA 21195 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Dave Detiege - Anim: George Grandpré, Bob Matz,
Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
- Film Editor: Al Wahrman - VC: Mel Blanc, Ralph James - Music: Bill Lava
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Daffy Rents
Rel 3/26/66 - MPAA 21147 - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Michael O'Connor - Anim: Bob Matz, Manny Perez,
George Grandpré, Norm McCabe - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin -
Film Editor: Al Wahrman - VC: Mel Blanc, Gonzales Gonzales - Music: Irving Gertz
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Rel 4/16/66 - MPAA 21194 - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Anim: Manny Perez, George Grandpré, Warren Batchelder,
Bob Matz - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Al
Wahrman - Additional Voices: June Foray - Music: Bill Lava - VC: Mel Blanc
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Snow Excuse
Rel 5/21/66 - MPAA 21229 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Dave Detiege - Anim: George Grandpré, Bob Matz,
Manny Perez, Don Williams, Norm McCabe - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom
O'Loughlin - VC: Mel Blanc - Music: Bill Lava
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A Squeak In The Deep
Rel 7/19/66 -MPAA 21230 - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Sid Marcus - Music Score: Walter Greene - Anim:
Bob Matz, Manny Perez, Norm McCabe, George Grandpré, Ted Bonnicksen, Warren
Batchelder - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor:
Eugene Marks - VC: Mel Blanc
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Feather Finger
Rel 8/20/66 -MPAA 21236 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Michael O'Connor - Music Score: Walter Greene -
Anim: Manny Perez, Norm McCabe, George Grandpré, Ted Bonnicksen, Bob Matz, Don
Williams - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Eugene
Marks - VC: Mel Blanc
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Swing Ding Amigo
Rel 9/17/66 -MPAA 21235 - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Sid Marcus - Music Score: Walter Greene - Anim:
George Grandpré, Ted Bonnicksen, Bob Matz, Manny Perez - Layout: Dick Ung -
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther - VC: Mel Blanc
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Sugar And Spies
Rel 11/5/66 - MPAA 21339 - LT
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Tom Dagenais - Music Score: Walter Greene - Anim:
Bob Matz, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Dale Case, Ted Bonnicksen - Layout:
Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
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A Taste Of Catnip
Rel 12/3/66 -MPAA 21316 - MM
Dir: Robert McKimson - Story: Michael O'Connor - Music Score: Walter Greene -
Anim: Ted Bonnicksen, Bob Matz, Manny Perez, Norm McCabe, George Grandpré,
Warren Batchelder - Layout: Dick Ung - Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin - Film
Editor: Lee Gunther - Additional VC: Gonzales Gonzales - VC: Mel Blanc
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The Format Films studio was run by Herbert Klynn (who will also have
a role in the second resurrection of the WB cartoon studio in 1967)
and was responsible for such TV shows as The Alvin Show and The Lone
Ranger. As DePatie-Freleng struggled to keep its commitments to Warner Bros.
and United Artists, the decision was made to send Format Films eleven Road
Runner projects. Rudy Larriva (an ex-WB animator) would direct, and Bill Lava
would fully score one cartoon and create a series of music cues to be dropped
into the succeeding cartoons (using an orchestra which roughly numbered three
musicians). In spite of the presence of some people who actually worked on Road
Runners at WB (namely designer Erni Nordli and animator Bob Bransford), nobody
ever mistook the end product for some of Chuck Jones' more sublime examples of
the series in the 1950's and 1960's. Watch these eleven cartoons and you'll
swear that Warner Bros. censored the wrong eleven films!
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Run, Run Sweet Road Runner
Rel 8/21/65 - MPAA 21058 - MM
Story: Rudy Larriva - Anim: Hank Smith, Tom McDonald - Layout: Erni Nordli -
Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
Only this Road Runner from Format Films has scored music. The other ten feature
stock music.
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Tired And Feathered
Rel 9/18/65 - MPAA 21096 - MM
Story: Rudy Larriva - Anim: Hank Smith, Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford - Layout:
Erni Nordli - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
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Boulder Wham
Rel 10/9/65 - MPAA 21095 - MM
Story: Len Janson - Anim: Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford, Hank Smith - Layout: Erni
Nordli - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
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Just Plane Beep
Rel 10/30/65 - MPAA 21097 - MM
Story: Don Jurwich - Anim: Bob Bransford, Hank Smith, Virgil Ross - Layout: Erni
Nordli - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
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Hairied And Hurried
Rel 11/13/65 - MPAA 21152 - MM
Story: Nick Bennion - Anim: Hank Smith, Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford - Layout: Roy
Morita, Shirley Silvey - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
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Highway Runnery
Rel 12/11/65 - MPAA 21148 - LT
Story: Al Bertino - Anim: Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford, Hank Smith - Layout: Erni
Nordli, Don Sheppard - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Joe Siracusa
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Chaser On The Rocks
Rel 8/21/65 - MPAA 21141 - MM
Story: Tom Dagenais - Anim: Hank Smith, Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford - Layout: Don
Sheppard - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Joe Siracusa
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Shot And Bothered
Rel 1/8/66 - MPAA 21176 - LT
Story: Nick Bennion - Anim: Bob Bransford, Hank Smith, Virgil Ross - Layout: Don
Sheppard - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Lee Gunther
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Out And Out Rout
Rel 1/29/65 - MPAA 21170 - MM
Story: Dale Hale - Anim: Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford, Hank Smith - Layout: Don
Sheppard - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Roger Donley
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The Solid Tin Coyote
Rel 2/19/66 - MPAA 21206 - LT
Story: Don Jurwich - Anim: Hank Smith, Virgil Ross, Bob Bransford - Layout: Don
Sheppard - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Joe Siracusa
Release date shown in LT&MM as 2/29/66.
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Clippety Clobbered
Rel 3/12/66 - MPAA 21098 - LT
Story: Tom Dagenais - Anim: Bob Bransford, Hank Smith, Virgil Ross - Layout: Don
Sheppard - Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo - Film Editor: Al Wahrman
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