Bye, Bye Bluebeard

A mouse imitates escaped killer Bluebeard to scare Porky. The mouse even has rockets to the Moon.

Porky Pig, Mouse, Bluebeard

After this short, Art Davis' unit was disbanded. Davis remained at Warner Bros. as an animator in Friz Freleng's' unit, and he directed one more film in the 1960s. Most of the animators from this unit went over to Disney.

Bluebeard goes through Porky's medicine cabinet in a hurry, giving us a peek at some interesting bottles. Many of the labels have the names of people: "Frizby" (Friz Freleng), (Mike) "Maltese Minestrone," "Ted Pierce's Medicine," (Warren) "Foster," "Vinnie," "Lydia Hokum" (Lydia Pinkham) and (Chuck) "Jones Laxative." There are also things like "Castor Erl," "Little Liver Pills," "Alky Haul" and "Dork Acid."

In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.

All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.