Bye, Bye Bluebeard
| Bye, Bye Bluebeard | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | October 21, 1949 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composition | Carl Stalling |
| Story | Sid Marcus |
| Animation | Basil Davidovich J.C. Melendez Don Willaims Emery Hawkins |
| Director(s) | Arthur Davis |
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Bye, Bye Bluebeard is the two-hundred and eleventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on October 21, 1949. It was written by Sid Marcus, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Arthur Davis.
A mouse wants to dine-in on Porky's food, but when he hears about a killer known as Bluebeard, he uses it to his advantage to scare Porky into giving him his food. But it doesn't work for long when details of Bluebeard's actual size are revealed.
Detailed summary
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Memorable quotes
Bluebeard: Who are you?
Mouse: I am your conscious.
Bluebeard: My... conscious?
Mouse: Sure, everybody has a conscious inside of 'em.
Bluebeard: Well... what are you doing OUTSIDE?
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Pastry
- Sausages
- Bread and butter
- Steak platter
- Wine
- Tall sandwich
- Rocket
- Tabasco sauce
- Pies
- Toaster
- Guillotine
- Bombs
- Stomach medicine
Production
Filming
Due to budget constraints at Warner Bros., this was the last cartoon that Arthur Davis directed in his own unit before it dissolved shortly after production finished. Most of the crew got laid off, moved to other units in the studio, or voluntarily moved to other studios. Davis would work in Friz Freleng's unit as an animator until he left for Hanna-Barbera in 1960. While at Hanna-Barbera, Davis directed one last short as a favor for Freleng, Quackodile Tears (1962).
The short was copyrighted in 1948 (MCMXLVIII).
Music
The score was composed by Carl W. Stalling. The main title and closing themes are a rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along," which was arranged by Stalling.
The song "Bye Bye Blackbird," by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon, plays during the opening credits.
Crew credits
- Layouts: Don Smith
- Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard
- Film editor: Treg Brown (uncredited)
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: October 21, 1949
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun of the song, "Bye Bye Blackbird," which is also played during the opening credits.
- This is the first short to be written by Sid Marcus.
- This is one of the few cartoons originally released before 1950 to be reissued in the 1959-64 period. As with most cartoons at the time, the original opening and ending titles are replaced with the Blue Ribbon reissue color rings, but the original credits remained.
- It is currently unknown if the original titles would ever be shown again, the original opening and ending titles were thought to have orange rings with a blue background.
- Among the contents of the medicine cabinet are all inside-jokes of the Warner's crew; Frizby Miniatures (named after director Friz Freleng), Maltese Minestrone (after screenwriter Michael Maltese), Ted Pierce's Medicine (after Tedd Pierce), Dr. Foster's Panace (after Warren Foster), and Jones Laxitive (after Chuck Jones).
- Bluebeard's death marks a rare example of a Warner Bros. short in which a character passes away without a comic postscript (e.g., reappearing as an angel or a ghost).
Home availability
- In the United States:
- October 25, 2005: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 on DVD.
