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Initial release 17 February 1934 (USA) Film series Merrie Melodies Producer Leon Schlesinger | 4.5/5 Big Cartoon DataBase Director Earl Duvall Music director Bernard B. Brown Cast Anne Helm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Pettin' in the Park, Boulevardier from the Bronx, Sittin' on a Backyard Fence, Beauty and the Beast, Billboard Frolics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honeymoon Hotel (1934) is an animated cartoon short subject in the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies series, released February 17, 1934. The film was directed by Earl Duvall. The music score was composed by Bernard Brown and Norman Spencer.
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Plot
The cartoon follows a male and female bug/insect who check into a hotel which catches on fire.
Music
The song Honeymoon Hotel (by Al Dubin and Harry Warren) was originally introduced in the 1932 Warner Bros. film Footlight Parade.
Color process
The film is notable for being the first Warner Bros. cartoon produced in color. It used Cinecolor since Walt Disney had exclusive rights to the Technicolor process. There was only one other Merrie Melodies cartoon produced in Cinecolor (Beauty and the Beast) before the series went briefly back to black-and-white. Later, the Merrie Melodies moved to Technicolor, though the Looney Tunes continued to be produced in black-and-white until 1943. Cinecolor would make a return in several late 1940s Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
