Honeymoon Hotel

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Honeymoon Hotel is a 1934 Merrie Melodies short directed by Earl Duvall.
== Title ==
"Honeymoon Hotel" is a song written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin for the 1933 WB musical Footlight Parade.
== Plot ==
An insect community sings while advertising the city of Bugtown. Meanwhile, a ladybug couple gets married and stays in the titular hotel for their honeymoon. The couple heads to their room to unpack, while a rogue gangster fly tries to peek in the rooms by looking at the keyhole, but is socked by the doorknobs. The hotel workers continue sing while providing service for the couple, although they (and the moon) all continue to try to peep at the couple.
However, the hotel eventually catches on fire. The firefighters tries to put out the fire while the patrons tries to escape the burning building. The couple tries to find an exit, but all of their doors are blocked. The two hides in a reclining bed behind a wall. Eventually the building implodes heavily from the damage, but the ladybug couple manages to remain unscathed and continue their honeymoon on the reclining bed.
== Availability ==
Footlight Parade VHS.jpg|(1989) VHS Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade Laserdisc.jpg|(1989) Laserdisc Footlight Parade
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-2-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 2, Side 1: Musical Madness
lt footlight parade.jpg|(2006) DVD Footlight Parade (1995 Turner dubbed version)
lt footlight parade blu.jpg|(2019) Blu-ray - Footlight Parade (Warner Archive Collection, in SD)
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 3.jpg|(2024) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 (restored)
== Notes ==
* This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon produced in color.
** It is also one of two Merrie Melodies cartoons produced in Cinecolor in 1934, the other being "Beauty and the Beast". After that, the series briefly went back to black-and-white, then to color again using two-strip Technicolor (and later three-strip Technicolor after the Walt Disney Studio's exclusive license to the three-strip process ended). Looney Tunes, however, remained black-and-white until "The Hep Cat" (1942).
* Both American and European Turner "dubbed" versions of this short kept the original ending title card with a "dubbed" 1995 notice.
* Like most of the remaining shorts that have not been restored, in 2020, Warner Bros. restored and remastered this short. The restoration eventually aired on 4 March 2022, on MeTV's Toon In With Me block.
* Despite the cartoon being produced in Cinecolor, the backgrounds were painted in full color.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:1934
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Earl Duvall
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Bernard Brown
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Cartoons originally produced in Cinecolor
Category:One-Shot Cartoons