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The Merry Kittens: Three Kittens, Terrier May 31, 1935 Burt Gillett Shamus Culhane: Only short co-directed by Shamus Culhane. Original MPPDA production code #392, listed on credits instead of its standalone screen. 9 Parrotville Post-Office: Captain, Black Parrot, Mrs. Birdkins, Mr. Birdkins' Children June 28, 1935 Burt Gillett Tom Palmer
"Merrily We Roll Along" is a song written by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor in 1935, and used in the Merrie Melodies cartoon Billboard Frolics that same year. It is best known as the theme of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series. The first two lines of Cantor's recording are:
Title Original release date Original series Reissue season Reissue release date Country Mouse: 1935-07-13 MM 1952–53 1953-03-14 The Merry Old Soul
Burton F. Gillett (October 15, 1891 – December 28, 1971) was a director of animated films.He is noted for his Silly Symphonies work for Disney, particularly the 1932 short film Flowers and Trees and the 1933 short film Three Little Pigs, both of which were awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and both of which were selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry.
The kitten starts to play with the feather walking down the piano keyboard and the feather lands on the 'on' switch with the kitten presses and the then-revealed pianola begins to play; ironically it is playing a variation of "Kitten on the Keys", a song composed by Zez Confrey in 1921. The other two kittens rejoin the first and play around the ...
Cookie finds a piano and plays the title song. The noise draws an octopus, who grabs her and swims off, with Buddy in pursuit. The octopus drops Cookie to fight Buddy, and does do so with some success until Buddy lures it into a pipe and ties the octopus's tentacles to a flange, then starts bashing the octopus with a battering ram.
By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin, and the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of "Merrily We Roll Along" by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor [10] (the original theme was "Get Happy" by Harold Arlen, played at a faster tempo).
The three little kittens they lost their mittens, And they began to cry, Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear Our mittens we have lost What? Lost your mittens, you naughty kittens! Then you shall have no pie. Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. We shall have no pie. Our mittens we have lost. The three little kittens they found their mittens, And they began to smile,