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The Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes original theatrical cartoon shorts produced and presented by Warner Bros. Pictures and the Vitaphone Corporation were originally the most wildly clever, the most irreverently hilarious, the most superbly original, and most especially the greatest cartoon series ever, EVER made in the history of animation, tracing back in the Golden Age of this series from 1930 with its very first Looney Tune short "Sinking in the Bathtub" (which also got the distinctive honor of being the VERY first Warner Bros' cartoon theatrical short, too!), all the way to the final WB theatrical cartoon short in 1969 entitled "Injun Trouble" which starred Cool Cat and was *also* the final Merrie Melodie short of the era.In this very, very SPECIAL collector's book entitled "The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons", it not only gives such extensive and outstandingly well-informative details on such unforgettable, fantastic-quality cartoon classics by WB that deserve their absolute place in pure animation history (as well as their one-shots, too!) as "What's Opera, Doc", "Birds Anonymous", "Duck Amuck", "Baby Bottleneck", "Three Little Bops", "One Froggy Evening", "Show Biz Bugs", "I Love to Singa", "Plane Daffy", "High Note", "Old Glory", "Ali Baba Bunny", "Robin Hood Daffy", "Baseball Bugs", "Porky in Wackyland", and especially "Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century" and "From A to Z-z-z-z" as well, but also *quite* splendidly chronicles the grand, grand history of how the series' original characters -- like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Granny, Michigan J. Frog, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and even Ralph Phillips as well, for example -- were made vastly famous over the many decades through the sheer unadulterated brilliancy of how these famous cartoon shorts were executed and even spectacularly directed by such phenomenal talents as Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freling, Robert McKimson, and Arthur Davis. On that note, this is without a doubt the one book that should rather be a hugely sought-after collector's item for ALL cartoon fans period for years and even decades to come!!!Congratulations especially to the great Jerry Beck on such a tremendously, tremendously outstanding job in covering the top 100 of the Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes as well providing us with a lot of grand, humongously cherishable memories for all of us cartoon fans at heart -- especially those of us as well who first grew up in the movie theatre watching these 5- to 10-minute WB cartoon shorts that took place before a feature film started, too!!! ;)HUGELY, HUGELY, HUGELY RECOMMENDED for all cartoon lovers and historians everywhere around the globe, young and old... an unforgettably precious collector's item indeed for generations and generations to come!!! (^-^)v !!
