1942

1942 brings Warner Brothers animation into the frontlines of World War II as Norman McCabe caps off a brief run as director by joining the army; while Chuck Jones finally begins to experiment with style and comedy that would define his most successful shorts; and Bob Clampett continues to test the limits of animation and surrealism while unexpectedly creating a new star out of a baby bird malicious to those who try to harm him.
== History ==
*The Looney Tunes series starts 3-hue color production starting with "The Hep Cat". The 1942-43 season uses thicker Color Rings instead of the music note background from 1936-42. The black and white bylines "WARNER BROS." and "Present" were different from the color ones. For this year and the next, most Looney Tunes shorts (namely, the ones being produced by Norman McCabe's unit) would still be black and white.
* Norman McCabe joins the army after completing work on "Tokio Jokio." 
* Frank Tashlin returns in September after a stint at Disney and Screen Gems and becomes a story director. He later replaces Norman McCabe as a director after a few weeks, when McCabe joined the army.
== Theatrical Shorts ==
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=== Miscellaneous shorts ===
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==Character Debuts==
*Tweety
*Babbit and Catstello
*Beaky Buzzard
*Henery Hawk
*Conrad the Cat
*The Dover Boys
== References ==
Category:Timeline