1955

1955 marked another Golden Age year for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Friz Freleng nets another Academy Award for the studio by taking Robert McKimson's once-obscure character, Speedy Gonzales, and overhauling him into a Tweety-based Mexican mouse. Meanwhile, McKimson would begin reassembling his unit from scratch after the shutdown from 1953, eventually recruiting animators such as Ted Bonnicksen to his unit.
Thirty-one shorts were released this year.
== Notes ==
* The TV distribution rights to all of the black-and-white Looney Tunes shorts and all of the black-and-white Merrie Melodies not produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising are sold to Guild Films. The copyrights to the cartoons in the package are assigned to Sunset Productions, a division of Warner Bros. This included all of the Bosko and Buddy cartoons as well as ninety-nine B&W Porky Pig cartoons.
* This year, the opening themes of both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were arranged by Milt Franklyn. However, some cartoons still continued to use the older themes even after the first short with a new theme was created. For the first seven cartoons, only the older themes were used. Then from 26 March to 25 June, the newly arranged Milt Franklyn versions of the opening and closing themes, and the older Carl Stalling versions of the themes, including the 1941 Merrie Melodies closing theme, 1945 Merrie Melodies opening theme, and 1946 Looney Tunes opening and closing themes were used concurrently. Beginning in July 1955, the Color Rings changed from red rings with blue background to green rings with red background, starting with "This is a Life", at the end of the cartoon. "Double or Mutton" was the first to use the green rings entirely, however, some cartoons from the 1955-1956 season continued to use the red rings and blue background at the end only. When the change in Color Rings happened in July 1955, they no longer used the older themes, with the exception of Blue Ribbon reissues of older cartoons.
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=== Miscellaneous shorts ===
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== Blue Ribbon Reissues ==
=== 1954-55 Season ===
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=== 1955-56 Season ===
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==Character Debuts==
*Speedy Gonzales (finalized design)
*Michigan J. Frog
== People ==
=== Births ===
* February 9 - Jerry Beck
* May 1 - Eric Goldberg
* August 3 - Corey Burton
* August 7 - Wayne Knight
* September 9 - John Kricfalusi
* ? - George Daugherty
== Warner Club News Stories and Art ==
WCN - January 1955 - Part 1.jpg|January 1955 - Part 1
WCN - January 1955 - Part 2.jpg|January 1955 - Part 2
WCN - February 1955.jpg|February 1955
WCN - March 1955 - Front Cover.jpg|Front cover of the March 1955 issue
WCN - March 1955.jpg|March 1955
WCN - April 1955 - Front Cover.jpg|Front cover of the April 1955 issue
WCN - April 1955 - Part 1.jpg|April 1955 - Part 1
WCN - April 1955 - Part 2.jpg|April 1955 - Part 2
WCN - May 1955 - Part 1.jpg|May 1955 - Part 1
WCN - May 1955 - Part 2.jpg|May 1955 - Part 2
WCN - June 1955 - Part 1.jpg|June 1955 - Part 1
WCN - June 1955 - Part 2.jpg|June 1955 - Part 2
WCN - July 1955 - Part 1.jpg|July 1955 - Part 1
WCN - July 1955 - Part 2.jpg|July 1955 - Part 2
WCN - August 1955 - Part 1.jpg|August 1955 - Part 1
WCN - August 1955 - Part 2.jpg|August 1955 - Part 2
WCN - August 1955 - Part 3.jpg|August 1955 - Part 3
WCN - October 1955 - Part 1.jpg|October 1955 - Part 1
WCN - October 1955 - Part 2.jpg|October 1955 - Part 2
WCN - November 1955 - Part 1.jpg|November 1955 - Part 1
WCN - November 1955 - Part 2.jpg|November 1955 - Part 2
WCN - November 1955 - Part 3.jpg|November 1955 - Part 3
WCN - December 1955 - Part 1.jpg|WCN - December 1955 - Part 1
WCN - December 1955 - Part 2.jpg|WCN - December 1955 - Part 2
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