Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
| Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Inc. | |
|---|---|
 Company logo. | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Predecessor(s) | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (1923-1967) Seven Arts Productions (1957-1967) |
| Founded | July 15, 1967 |
| Defunct | December 16, 1969 |
| Fate | Acquired by Kinney National Company and rebranded as Warner Bros. Inc. |
| Successor(s) | Warner Bros. Inc. (1969-present) |
| Headquarters | 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Key people | Jack L. Warner Kenneth Hyman |
| Products | Motion pictures Music recordings Television |
| Parent | Kinney National Company (1969) |
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Inc. was an American entertainment company that was based in Burbank, California, and founded in 1967 after a corporate merger between Warner Bros. Pictures and Seven Arts Productions. It was later defunct in 1969, after the Kinney National Company acquired it and rebranded the studio as Warner Bros. Inc.
During the company's short existence, the final set of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts were produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, then known under its rebranding as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation, before its shutdown on October 10, 1969. While they initially continued work on Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales cartoons from DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, the studio (under supervision of animator Alex Lovy) shifted to producing shorts for newly created characters, including Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse, and Bunny and Claude. The shorts made at this period were not well received, and many animation enthusiasts regard them (particularly the ones with Daffy and Speedy) as the worst cartoons ever produced by the studio.
