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While many of us recognize Looney Tunes cartoons from their run on television, they actually ran in movie theaters for 39 years, from 1930 to 1969. They were Warner Bros.’s first theatrical animated series. The term Looney Tunes also refers to the animated cast of characters in Warner Bros. Cartoons. The term is often spelled Looney “Toons.”

The original purpose of Looney Tunes cartoons was to showcase musical “tunes” for the movie-going audience. Early characters had short adventures set to a musical score. Later characters became hugely popular, like the ones that are still popular today even though they’ve been around for decades. Even small children, born long after the heyday of Looney Tunes and that type of cartoon in general recognize the likes of Elmer Fudd and his constant foil, Bugs Bunny. Sylvester and his hard-to-catch snack, Tweety Bird are Looney Tunes characters as are the stuttering Porky Pig, lisping Daffy Duck, and the Tasmanian Devil, who in recent years has gained new popularity and now goes by the shortened nickname, Taz.

Other Looney Tunes cartoons featured characters like Marvin the Martian, who always seemed to want to blow up the earth, Wile E. Coyote and his would-be-dinner, the Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, suave but smelly Pepe Le Pew, rootin’ tootin’ Yosemite Sam, Speedy Gonzales and a long list of popular and smaller characters that children and even adults love to watch.

Originally, Looney Tunes cartoons were produced and own by Leon Schlesinger Productions, but were sold to Warner Bros. In 1944. They were most popular animated features in theaters through their run in 1969, with the last theater short being one featuring the character Cool Cat called “Injun Trouble.” Merrie Melodies was another popular animated series, but Looney Tunes used the same characters over and over, where Merrie Melodies typically did not.

The most famous character featured in Looney Tunes cartoons is Bugs Bunny, even though he wasn’t the first. Bugs appeared for the first time in 1940. When the theater shorts were shown on television in the 1950s, Looney Tunes became even more popular. Because Looney Tunes featured scenes that contained mild sexual innuendos, phrases and actions that were being viewed as racist, and violence, the cartoons shows on television in the 1970s were typically edited with this kind of content removed.

Looney Tunes cartoons weren’t produced for the theater going audience from 1969 until 1987, when new cartons were made for theatrical release. None have been made since 2004, but old and new ones alike can be seen regularly on television. Several Looney Tunes characters have appeared in movies now, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

For collectors, acquiring a complete collection is a fun challenge, but the earliest Looney Tunes cartoons and those aired during WWII are the hardest to find. These are no longer sold or aired because of the way that Germans, Asians, Jews and African-Americans are racially stereotyped in the cartoons.

Originally posted 2008-11-20 05:00:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Bruce Lee is a revered name in the martial arts community, and Bruce Lee movies are classics among action and martial arts fans. Lee was more than actor, he actually developed a martial art form called Jeet Kune Do, and popularized the sport in various films and television appearances in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in California in 1940 in both the Year of the Dragon and the hour of the dragon, according the Chinese Zodiac, Lee ended up being raised in Hong Kong when the family moved back to China when Lee was 3 months old. But Bruce was sent back to the United States when he was 18 because he’d recently been in trouble after getting into a fight. He held two small boxing championships at the time. He met his wife at the University of Washington and married her in 1964.

They had two children, Brandon born in 1965 and Shannon born in 1969. Both became actors like their father. Shannon retired from acting after some low-budget film appearances in the mid 90s, and Brandon Lee, perhaps at the peak of his popularity, died during the filming of his film The Crow at the age of only 28. The parallels between his death and his father were a source of interest and speculation at the time, because Bruce Lee died young as well, at age 33. And of all the Bruce Lee movies, the final one was completed after his death, just as Brandon’s movie, The Crow, had to be finished.

The first Bruce Lee movies were actually black-and-white short films he appeared in while very young. By age 18, he’d appeared in 20 films. His early introduction to the world of acting and films was thanks to his father, Hoi-Cheun, who was a famous opera star in China.

After a demonstration in a Karate Tournament in 1964, he impressed the other martial artists and ended up landing small roles on television in shows like Batman. He went on to appear in films and television shows, even pitching his own show called The Warrior which many, including Lee, believed was later changed to become the popular series Kung Fu with David Carradine. Lee even auditioned for the lead role, but the studios didn’t believe that the viewing public would be won over by a Chinese lead actor. Upset at his treatment in the US, the first Bruce Lee movies were made in Hong Kong.

Bruce Lee went back to Hong Kong and became a box office sensation, going on to write, direct and choreograph. He gave Chuck Norris his start in films by casting him in Way of the Dragon and fighting him a legendary martial arts sequence. Bruce Lee movies and his martial arts philosophies went on to change the way Kung Fu and all of China were viewed in the west. His movies are available on DVD and still enjoyed today, and he is still seen as one of the most amazing martial artists that ever lived.

Originally posted 2008-11-16 05:00:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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