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|"Merrily We Roll Along," the ''Merrie Melodies'' theme (first used in the cartoon ''Billboard Frolics'', 1935)}}
''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' were two series of theatrical cartoon shorts running from [[The Golden Age of Animation|1930]] to [[The Dark Age of Animation|1969]]. Initially produced by Leon Schlesinger for distribution by [[Warner Bros]], in 1944 the studio took the unit over entirely when Schlesinger retired.
Originally, [[Artifact Title|as the names indicate]], these cartoons were meant to rip off the sweet, sentimental musical shorts then in vogue: for instance, Disney's ''[[Silly Symphonies]]''. That basing cartoons around popular public-domain songs—or, even better, ones the studio already owned—was a fast and relatively cheap way of producing them didn't hurt any, either.
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