Color Rings

The colored concentric circles used in the introduction of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons changed every release season.
== Late 1935-1936: Blue-Purple Rings, Black Background, Red Shield ==
This scheme debuted in the 1935 cartoon "Flowers for Madame", while the zooming WB shield debuted in "Page Miss Glory". "I Think You're Ducky" plays; each rendition is slightly different in each cartoon that it appears on. The last cartoon to use these rings in the opening titles is "Toy Town Hall", but the ending rings appeared on "Boulevardier from the Bronx".
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==Late 1936-1937: Blue Rings, Black Background, Blue Shield ==
Starting with "Boulevardier from the Bronx", "I Think You're Ducky" is replaced with "Merrily We Roll Along", which would be the theme of the series until 1964. The shield's color is now blue instead of red. "Boulevardier from the Bronx" uses a special opening title, including a new Merrie Melodies font, but this was quickly reverted starting with "Don't Look Now".
The first five cartoons in this season ("Boulevardier from the Bronx" to "Pigs Is Pigs") play the theme at a faster pace than usual. However, starting with "I Only Have Eyes for You", the tempo slowed down and the variant was the same. In "Egghead Rides Again", the iconic twanging noise was added when the shield zoomed in on screen. In addition, beginning with "Plenty of Money and You", the closing theme would also be "Merrily We Roll Along", with a different variant used for the two following cartoons, "Speaking of the Weather" and "Dog Daze", until "I Wanna Be a Sailor" used a "finalized" version of both the opening and ending themes for the time. The last cartoon to use these rings was "The Lyin' Mouse".
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==Late 1937-1938: Orange-Yellow Rings, Black Background, Blue Shield==
The first short to use these rings is "Little Red Walking Hood". The Vitaphone release number moves to the first opening title, the Merrie Melodies font changes from being puffy to thin and more curved, and the opening theme now has a largely dominant woodwind arrangement for the opening and closing. Starting with "Jungle Jitters", the opening theme was sparsely modified. In "The Major Lied 'Til Dawn", it was changed again, this time with a concert band full of brass instruments. Almost every short closed with the 1937-38 closing theme, with the only exception being "The Major Lied 'Til Dawn". "Cracked Ice" uses a special variant of the opening rendition. 
The byline "RELEASED BY WARNER BROS. PRODUCTIONS CORP" changes to "RELEASED BY WARNER BROS. PICTURES INC." starting with "Katnip Kollege". The first half of the 1937-38 season had a different closing title sequence than the second half, which was used from "Little Red Walking Hood" to "The Isle of Pingo Pongo". The second half was used from "Katnip Kollege" to "Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas".
The first half retains a similar ending title sequence to the 1936-37 season, with the "That's all folks!" text, though the Merrie Melodies text now has a drop shadow. In the second half, the "That's all Folks!" text was changed to resemble the text used for Looney Tunes during the 1935-1936 season, albeit without quotation marks. In addition, the Merrie Melodies text in the closing title now resembled the 1933-1937 Merrie Melodies logo. The byline "REG. US. PAT. OFF." is missing from the closing titles in the second half of the season, while it is there in the first half's closing titles. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas".
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==1938-1939: Green-Yellow Rings, Black Background, Red Shield==
The first short to use these rings is "You're an Education". The shield's color is changed back to red, this time permanently. The opening theme remains the same as the brassy theme from August 1938. "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" used a slightly different ending arrangement but with a rather weird zooming noise before the ending theme started. The ending theme was modified as well and would be used until early-1941.
In 1939, the opening theme was heavily modified and made a much more perfect version of the theme with trombones. Starting with "Naughty but Mice", the wording on the shield is changed to "Warner Bros. Present". There is also a variant in "Believe It or Else" where "Warner Bros." is in a different font (similar to the Looney Tunes openings from 1939). The last cartoon where "Warner Bros." is on a banner is "Hare-um Scare-um"; starting with "Detouring America", the banner was removed. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Sioux Me".
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==1939-1940: Red, White, and Blue Rings, Cloudy Sky Background, Transparent Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Land of the Midnight Fun". The opening and closing themes are the same as before. This is the only time in which the WB shield is slightly translucent. As for the closing screen, the exclamation mark in the "That's all Folks!" text is on the inside of the quotation marks as opposed to the outside, meaning that this text has almost reached its finalized version. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Tom Thumb in Trouble".
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==1940: Red, White and Blue Rings, Black Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Confederate Honey". The "That's all Folks!" text has reached its finalized version. The shield had remained the same, however it lost its transparency. Starting with "A Wild Hare", the shield was updated. (The official remasters use the previous shield due to the print with the original titles being damaged). The opening and closing music remains the same as the first half of the 1939-40 season. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Ceiling Hero". 
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==1940-1941: Orange Rings, Black Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Malibu Beach Party". Also, it's the only cartoon where the music is the same as before. After that, it was changed to a sparsely modified version which sounds like a mix of the 1938-1939 and 1939-1940 themes. "Good Night Elmer" is the only exception, which has a brassier version of the aforementioned theme. The closing theme is the same until "Toy Trouble", when the opening and closing themes were heavily modified to sound more brassy (the same arrangement of the theme that would later be used for the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies reissues and the Associated Artists Productions opening screen). The Merrie Melodies title was also updated. In "The Heckling Hare", Bugs Bunny appears on top of the shield, munching on a carrot, then pulls down the Merrie Melodies title card like a shade (animated by Virgil Ross). This intro resembles the original 1937-1938 Merrie Melodies intro. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Sport Chumpions".
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==1941-1942: Dark Blue-Purple Rings, Black Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Snowtime for Comedy". The music is the same as was introduced in "Toy Trouble". A variant, introduced this season, appears with Bugs Bunny munching on the carrot except instead of pulling the logo down, he angrily glares at the camera, and the Merrie Melodies title card fades in. This variant only appears in Bugs Bunny cartoons. Starting with January 1942's "Aloha Hooey", the design of the shield changed again. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Fox Pop".
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==1942-1944: Red Rings, Black Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "The Dover Boys" The color rings debut in the Looney Tunes series starting with "The Hep Cat". A black-and-white variant was used starting with "The Daffy Duckaroo", for cartoons directed by the Ray Katz-managed unit. However, all such B&W LT cartoons used the 1940-1942 shield. Only when they stopped making black-and-white cartoons altogether did they stop using the 1940-1942 shield, as well as the 1942-1943 one. The last Merrie Melodies cartoon to use these rings was "What's Cookin' Doc?", while the last Looney Tunes cartoon to use it is "Daffy - The Commando" for the color version and "Puss n' Booty" for the black-and-white version.
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==1943-1945: Blue Rings, Red Background, Red Shield==
These rings debuted with the first Blue Ribbon reissue ("A Feud There Was"), in September 1943. The Blue Ribbon reissues continued to use the 1941-1943 shield until the reissue of "Cross Country Detours".
After "Angel Puss", Porky and Daffy would be split on their appearances on the Looney Tunes rings, with the Porky Pig's face variant debuting in "Brother Brat" while Daffy Duck's face debuts in "Plane Daffy". Starting with "Hare Ribbin'", a new Bugs Bunny variant is introduced this season where the Warner Bros. shield zooms in, then it fades to a grinning headshot of Bugs Bunny. "Buckaroo Bugs" introduced a Looney Tunes title with no headshot. The new Bugs Bunny variant is once again only on Bugs Bunny cartoons. 
Starting with "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears", "Produced by Leon Schlesinger" changes to "Produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons Inc." briefly before changing to "A WARNER BROS. CARTOON" due to Leon Schlesinger selling his studio to Warner Bros. In addition, starting with "Stage Door Cartoon", the byline "PICTURES INC." is added under "WARNER BROS.". The last cartoon to use these rings is "Odor-able Kitty".
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== 1944-1946: Orange Rings, Crimson Background, Red Shield ==
These rings only appeared in the openings of Blue Ribbon reissues. Starting with the reissue of "When I Yoo Hoo", the byline "PICTURES INC." is added under "WARNER BROS.". The first reissue to use these rings is "Let It Be Me". The last reissue to use these rings is "Little Red Walking Hood".
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==1945-1946: Red Rings, Black Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Herr Meets Hare". The titles change from saying "Produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons Inc." to "A WARNER BROS. CARTOON". Everything is the same except the opening themes for both series are shortened due to the credits being extended, with the director's credit being placed on a separate card. A new Bugs Bunny opening title variant was also introduced this season (animated by Art Davis), which is essentially a re-animated version of "The Heckling Hare" variant. "Hare Conditioned" and "Hare Tonic" are the only two Looney Tunes cartoons to use the Merrie Melodies color rings. These backgrounds resemble the ones from the 1942-43 animation season. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Hush My Mouse".
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==1946-1947: Blue-Red Rings, Red Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Hair-Raising Hare". By 1946, the drum ending was eliminated, so the "That's all Folks!" text was added to the end of the Looney Tunes series, similar to how Merrie Melodies did it and how Looney Tunes did it from 1936 to 1937. Only two LT cartoons, "Kitty Kornered" and "Acrobatty Bunny", used the 1945-1946 opening theme, but not the 1941-1946 closing theme. "Kitty Kornered" used the 1941-1955 MM closing theme for some reason, while "Acrobatty Bunny" used a redone instrumental rendition of the 1941-1946 LT closing theme. Starting with "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", the opening and closing themes were modified. For some reason, in that cartoon, along with "Kitty Kornered" and "Of Thee I Sting, the WB Shield does not zoom in. Also, in "Of Thee I Sting", the WB shield even remains on-screen after the "Looney Tunes" and "Color by Technicolor" text cross-fade. Everything else, especially those for MM, remains the same. Starting with "Mouse Menace" a new, wider WB shield is introduced, however this rendition of the titles are rarely seen due to all of the cartoons that used it being reissued throughout the 1950s. When the 1947-48 rings were introduced, these rings continued to be used at the end of MM's until "Slick Hare" (except for "Doggone Cats", due to it being released in Cinecolor). The final new cartoon to use these rings is "Hobo Bobo". The ending rings, however, would be used in Blue Ribbon reissues with the opening rings from the 1947-1948 season. The final cartoon to use these rings was the 1949 reissue of "Horton Hatches the Egg" 
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==1947-1948: Red Rings, Blue Background, Red Shield==
The first short to use these rings is "Along Came Daffy". These are the first color rings to be used for Cinecolor cartoons, starting with "Doggone Cats". The Bugs Bunny opening title variant was slightly modified. "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" is the first cartoon to use "COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR" instead of "IN TECHNICOLOR", but it was shortly changed to "Color By TECHNICOLOR" starting with "Haredevil Hare". The last short to use these rings was "The Pest That Came to Dinner".
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==1947-1949: Green Rings, Red Background, Red Shield (1947-1948)==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "House Hunting Mice" (Ending). "High Diving Hare" is the last cartoon where Bugs Bunny sits on the top of the shield. Like the previous ring scheme, this was used in both Technicolor and Cinecolor shorts. These rings were never used for any Blue Ribbon reissue. The last short to use these rings was "Curtain Razor".
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==1948-1949: Orange-Yellow Rings, Blue Background, Red Shield (1948)==
"The Up-Standing Sitter", "Bowery Bugs", "Mouse Mazurka", and "Long-Haired Hare" have a black background. Starting with "Knights Must Fall" it was changed to a blue background. The last cartoon to use these rings was "A Ham in a Role".
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==1950: Green-Yellow Rings, Green Background, Red Shield (1948-1949) ==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Home, Tweet Home". For some reason, the remasters for "Home, Tweet Home", "The Lion's Busy", "Strife with Father", "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat", "Canary Row", and "Pop 'Im Pop!", have a black background. The last cartoon to use these rings was "Rabbit of Seville".
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==1950-1951: Red/Yellow Rings, Black Background, Red Shield (1949-1950) ==
These rings first appeared in "Hillbilly Hare", however, they wouldn't be used as the main color rings until "Two's a Crowd". This intro resembles the 1937-1938 and 1940-1941 Merrie Melodies intros. The final cartoon to use these rings was "The Prize Pest".
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==1951-1953, 1987-1988 Blue-Red Rings, Red Background, Red Shield (1950-1951)==
These rings are shown in 1950-1951 produced cartoons released between 1951 and 1953. They are identical to the 1946-1948 rings with the only difference being that Bugs doesn't appear on the WB shield anymore. These are also the last rings to have a mugshot of any characters besides Bugs. The first cartoon to use these rings is "Tweety's S.O.S." The final cartoon to use these rings was "Don't Give Up the Sheep", though they would be used again on two Daffy Duck cartoons released in the late 1980's, "The Duxorcist" and "The Night of the Living Duck".
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==1952-1953 Green-Yellow Rings, Red Background, Red Shield (1951-1952)==
The first cartoon to use these rings is "Rabbit Seasoning"; the last to use the opening rings is "Cats A-weigh!", while the last one to use the ending rings is "Punch Trunk". A special version of the end card with "The End" in place of "That's all Folks!" was used for Blue Ribbon reissues.
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==1953-1955 Orange-Yellow Rings, Blue Background, Red Shield (1952-1954)==
The original-styled rings were used from "Lumber Jack-Rabbit" up to "Punch Trunk" and this intro resembles the 1948-1949 version until 1954. After the Termite Terrace studio reopened in 1954, the opening rings were adjusted to have smaller rings for both titles starting with "Dog Pounded", and the central circle greatly was reduced in size, though all of the cartoons with this color rings scheme, both with and without the smaller opening rings, had the pre-1954 ending rings. The last cartoon to use these rings is "Feather Dusted". "Lumber Jack-Rabbit", which was produced in 3D, has a version wherein the WB shield zooms in much further than usual before zooming back into its normal position. 
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==1954-1956: Pink Rings, Blue Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings was "By Word of Mouse". As the last cartoons using the older Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies themes, from 1946-55 and 1945-55 respectively, were released, a newly-orchestrated theme music, with more violins and woodwind instruments, was composed by Milt Franklyn for use in later cartoons starting with "Sahara Hare" and "Hare Brush" respectively, though in "This Is a Life?", a different, brassier arrangement, also composed by Milt Franklyn, is used instead, even though the original closing theme from "Hare Brush" was used at the end. Throughout 1956, the ending rings from this season would often be used in combination with the following green rings. The last cartoon to use both rings in the opening and ending is "Lumber Jerks". "This Is a Life?" used these opening rings, but ended with the green rings. The ending rings would often be switched with the green rings on endings until "Raw! Raw! Rooster!"
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==1955-1957: Green-Yellow Rings, Red Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use the Merrie Melodies ending rings was "This Is a Life?", while the first cartoon to use both the opening and ending rings and the first cartoon to use the Looney Tunes ending rings was "Double or Mutton". The ending rings switched around with the previous pink rings. The last cartoon to use the ending rings was "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" while the last cartoon to use the opening rings was "Raw! Raw! Rooster!" However, the ending rings were also used for "Touché and Go", "Mouse-Taken Identity", and "Rabbit Romeo".
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==1956-1957: Red-Yellow Rings, Green Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings was "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse". Starting with "Two Crows from Tacos", the words "Color by Technicolor" is replaced with simply "Technicolor". The last cartoons to use these rings are "Zoom and Bored" and "Greedy for Tweety". Redrawn colorized cartoons reissued in the 1970s and early 1980s used the rings from "Deduce, You Say" with the copyright notice at the start replaced with a copyright notice from a 1967 cartoon.
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==1957-1959: Blue Rings, Red Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings was "Touché and Go". The last cartoon to use these rings is "Here Today, Gone Tamale".
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==1959-1964: Crimson Rings, Blue Background, Red Shield==
The first cartoon to use these rings was "Here Today, Gone Tamale" (ending). Starting from "Bonanza Bunny" up to the studio's closure, these set of rings would be used for every cartoon with the exceptions of "Now Hear This", "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel", and "Señorella and the Glass Huarache". These used a special, abstract intro that would later be used by cartoons produced by the DePatie-Freleng and Format Films outfits. Starting from "West of the Pesos", the "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." byline below the Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies logo in the opening titles was removed and a registered trademark symbol was used instead. Additionally, starting from "From Hare to Heir" and "Hopalong Casualty", the "A VITAPHONE/VITAGRAPH RELEASE" byline was added to the ending titles, and the opening title would fade to black then fade to the title card of the short instead of fading directly to the title card. The final cartoon to use these rings, and the final cartoon to use any color rings in the golden age of animation, was "False Hare".
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