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* On the ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon "Daffy Duck and Egghead", a blue-tinted version of the logo is used. |
* On the ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon "Daffy Duck and Egghead", a blue-tinted version of the logo is used. |
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* A B&W variant of the ''Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies'' version exists, which was seen on AAP's prints of the 1931-33 black-and-white Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. |
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'''Technique:''' Live-action camera and fading effects. |
'''Technique:''' Live-action camera and fading effects. |
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* On an old print of the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Super Rabbit", the logo is silent. |
* On an old print of the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Super Rabbit", the logo is silent. |
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* On the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Tweetie Pie", the cartoon's complete original opening music and cartoon title music played over the AAP logo and reissue titles. |
* On the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Tweetie Pie", the cartoon's complete original opening music and cartoon title music played over the AAP logo and reissue titles. |
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* A few shorts spliced the 1937 Merrie Melodies music: the original '37 music plays for about one second, then cuts to the 1941 Merrie Melodies music. On 1937 cartoons such as "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" and "Streamlined Greta Green", the original music then resumes where it had been spliced |
* A few shorts spliced the 1937 Merrie Melodies music: the original '37 music plays for about one second, then cuts to the 1941 Merrie Melodies music. On 1937 cartoons such as "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" and "Streamlined Greta Green", the original music then resumes where it had been spliced. |
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** This weird edit also occurred on 1934's "Pop Goes Your Heart" for reasons unknown. |
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* On Popeye cartoons filmed in Cinecolor and Polacolor, the cartoons' original Paramount music cues are intact. |
* On Popeye cartoons filmed in Cinecolor and Polacolor, the cartoons' original Paramount music cues are intact. |
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* On some public domain cartoons, the Popeye theme may be dubbed over to avoid copyright issues over "Popeye the Sailor Man." As an example, there's a variant that plays a loop of "The Sailor's Hornpipe" to do this. |
* On some public domain cartoons, the Popeye theme may be dubbed over to avoid copyright issues over "Popeye the Sailor Man." As an example, there's a variant that plays a loop of "The Sailor's Hornpipe" to do this. |
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* Could be easily spotted on many 1980s and 1990s VHS releases of public domain Looney Tunes and Popeye cartoons. |
* Could be easily spotted on many 1980s and 1990s VHS releases of public domain Looney Tunes and Popeye cartoons. |
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* Tooncast (in Latin America) also keeps the WB version of this logo on two pre-1948 Daffy Duck cartoons, surprisingly, whenever they rerun Looney Tunes shorts. |
* Tooncast (in Latin America) also keeps the WB version of this logo on two pre-1948 Daffy Duck cartoons, surprisingly, whenever they rerun Looney Tunes shorts. |
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* It also |
* It was also seen when TCM aired the two-reel Popeye "movies". |
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* It also made another surprise appearance before the ''Looney Tunes'' short "Meatless Flyday" during the April Fools' 2023 Looney Tunes marathon on Cartoon Network. |
* It also made another surprise appearance before the ''Looney Tunes'' short "Meatless Flyday" during the April Fools' 2023 Looney Tunes marathon on Cartoon Network. |
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* The ''Looney Tunes'' variant of this logo |
* The ''Looney Tunes'' variant of this logo was also seen on MeTV on the short "I Taw a Putty Tat", as it was the Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals VHS copy from [[MGM/UA Home Entertainment|MGM/UA Home Video]], as well as on several Censored Eleven prints released unofficially on Blu-ray by well-intentioned bootleg outfit Thunderbean Animation. |
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* The ''Popeye'' variant of this logo can also be seen on several Famous Studios Popeye shorts on the Boomerang streaming app. |
* The ''Popeye'' variant of this logo can also be seen on several Famous Studios Popeye shorts on the Boomerang streaming app. |
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** Also, it's spotted on TCM airings of them on Saturday mornings, plus on MeTV on ''Toon In With Me'' and ''Saturday Morning Cartoons''. |
** Also, it's spotted on TCM airings of them on Saturday mornings, plus on MeTV on ''Toon In With Me'' and ''Saturday Morning Cartoons''. |
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* The ''Popeye'' closing variant also |
* The ''Popeye'' closing variant is also preserved at the end of the RSVP VHS release of ''Popeye Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves''. |
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'''Legacy:''' The Warner Bros. variant is well-known amongst animation historians and fans of ''Looney Tunes'' for its presence on the "Censored Eleven" cartoons. |
'''Legacy:''' The Warner Bros. variant is well-known amongst animation historians and fans of ''Looney Tunes'' for its presence on the "Censored Eleven" cartoons. |
Note: This page is about Associated Artists Productions used on cartoon re-releases. For the description for live-action re-releases, click here.
Visuals: The initials "a.a.p." appear in lowercase, with the "p" having a very long stem and the stems for all the letters are in a different color than the rest of the logo. There's also a light on the letters, but only on the B&W version. Alongside the "p's" stem are the words "ASSOCIATED ARTISTS PRODUCTIONS INC.", and below all that is the word "Presents", written in cursive.
Closing Title: At the end of a short, the logo appears with the following message above it: "This picture has been presented by". Also, the full name of the company appears horizontally under the initials, with a space where the "p's" stem is. Again, there's a light on the letters on the B&W version.
Technique: This is a hand-drawn graphic.
Audio: The beginning or end of the music in whatever short has the logo.
Availability: At one point, they could still be seen on the colorized Fleischer Popeye shorts when aired on Boomerang, but newer airings post-2023 just use the B&W restorations from the Warner Archive DVD releases. Can still be spotted occasionally when a Fleischer redrawn pops up on TCM, airing instead of the B&W version.
Visuals:
Closing Title: Exclusive to Popeye cartoons, the closing title is the same as the first, except for the specific background and color of the text from this variation plus the placement of the company's name is different (it appears on two lines at the left of the "p's" stem).
Variants:
Technique: Live-action camera and fading effects.
Audio:
Audio Variants:
Availability: Restoration of Popeye and WB cartoons mean less sightings of this logo, although it's still not hard to find.
Legacy: The Warner Bros. variant is well-known amongst animation historians and fans of Looney Tunes for its presence on the "Censored Eleven" cartoons.
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