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in 1933 over a budget dispute with Schlesinger, they took with them all the rights of the characters and cartoons which they had created.ДЄ new character called Buddy became the only star of the Looney Tunes series for a couple of years. The first Looney Tunes short was Sinkin' in the Bathtub which was released in 1930.

Bosko was Looney Tunes' first major lead character, debuting in the short Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid in 1929.

Schlesinger hired Rudolph Ising and Hugh Harman to produce their first series of cartoons. Warner made a deal with Leon Schlesinger to produce cartoons for Warner Bros. Consequently, they were eager to start promoting this material to cash in on the sales of sheet music and phonograph records. They had recently acquired the ownership of Brunswick Records along with four music publishers for US $28 million. became interested in developing a series of musical animated shorts to promote their music. By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was 'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down' by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of 'Merrily We Roll Along' by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor. Both series also made use of the various Warner Bros. After 1943, however, both series were produced in color and became virtually indistinguishable, with the only stylistic difference being in the variation between the opening theme music and titles.

Also, from 1934 to 1943 Merrie Melodies were produced in color and Looney Tunes in black and white. In the beginning both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies drew their storylines from Warner's vast music library (notice the names Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies). It would not be seen by a wide audience until 71 years later, in 2000, as part of Cartoon Network's special Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons, a compilation special of rare material from the WB/Turner archives. This cartoon set Harman and Ising 'apart from early Disney sound cartoons because it emphasized not music but dialogue.' The short was marketed to various people by Harman and Ising until Leon Schlesinger offered them a contract to produce a series of cartoons for the Warner Bros. The short is a landmark in animation history as being the first to include synchronized speech. Ising returns Bosko to the inkwell, and the short ends. After he draws Bosko on the page, the character springs to life, talks, sings, and dances. The short, plotless cartoon opens with live action footage of Ising at a drafting table. In May 1929, they produced a short pilot cartoon, similar to Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell cartoons, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid that showcased their ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing.

April 1929 found them moving on again, leaving Universal to market their new cartoon character. The character was registered as a 'Negro boy' under the name of Bosko.ДЄfter leaving Walt Disney in the spring of 1928, Harman and Ising went to work for Charles Mintz on Universal's second-season Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons. Hugh Harman made drawings of the new character and registered it with the copyright office on 3 January 1928. Harman began thinking about making a sound cartoon with Bosko in 1927, before he even left Walt Disney. Hugh Harman created Bosko, the very first Looney Tunes character, in 1927 to capitalize on the new 'talkie' craze that was sweeping the motion picture industry. In 1927, Harman and Ising were still working for the Walt Disney Studios on a series of live-action/animated short subjects known as the Alice Comedies.

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