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Warner Bros. Animation is a division of Warner Bros, and a subsidiary of Time Warner, and was formerly referred to as Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1930 to 1944, and Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1963. The studio was founded in 1930, and is famous for producing the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, which began under the production of Harman and Ising at Schlesinger's unit. Since 1990, Warner Bros. Animation has primarily focused upon the production of television and feature animation of other properties, notably including those related to Time Warner's DC Comics publications, as well as the Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes franchises.

Productions

Direct-to-video films

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost
Scooby-Doo And The Alien Invaders
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
Aloha, Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King
Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
Scooby-Doo! Legend Of The Phantosaur
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy

TV series

Other

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-'''Warner Bros. Animation''' is a division of [[Warner Bros|Warner Bros.]], and a subsidiary of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner Time Warner], and the successor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Cartoons Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc,] formerly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Schlesinger Leon Schlesinger Productions] (founded in 1933, which produced the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes Looney Tunes]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrie_Melodies Merrie Melodies],'' which began under the production of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harman_and_Ising Harman and Ising] at Schlesinger's unit); it was sold to Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944. Since 1990, Warner Bros. Animation has primarily focused upon the production of television and feature animation of other properties, notably including those related to Time Warner's DC Comics publications. 90s Hanna-Barbera shows unlike ''Scooby-Doo'' and more....
+'''Warner Bros. Animation''' is a division of [[Warner Bros]], and a subsidiary of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner Time Warner], and was formerly referred to as '''Leon Schlesinger Productions''' from 1930 to 1944, and '''Warner Bros. Cartoons''' from 1944 to 1963. The studio was founded in 1930, and is famous for producing the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes Looney Tunes]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrie_Melodies Merrie Melodies]'', which began under the production of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harman_and_Ising Harman and Ising] at Schlesinger's unit. Since 1990, Warner Bros. Animation has primarily focused upon the production of television and feature animation of other properties, notably including those related to Time Warner's [[DC Comics]] publications, as well as the ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]'' and ''Looney Tunes'' franchises.
-==History==
+==Productions==
-===1930-1933: Harman-Ising Productions===
+===Direct-to-video films===
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]''
-Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising originated the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated short subjects in 1930 and 1931, respectively. Both cartoon series were produced for Leon Schlesinger at the Harman-Ising Studio on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, with Warner Bros. Pictures releasing the films to theaters. The first ''Looney Tunes ''character was the Harman-Ising creation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosko Bosko, The Talk-ink Kid]. Despite the fact that Bosko was popular among theater audiences, he could never match the popularity of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney Walt Disney]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse Mickey Mouse], or even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fleischer Max Fleischer]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop Betty Boop]. In 1933, Harman and Ising parted company with Schlesinger over financial disputes, and took Bosko with them to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]. As a result, Schlesinger set up his own studio on the Warner Bros. lot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo And The Alien Invaders]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (film)|Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster]]''
+* ''[[Aloha, Scooby-Doo!]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!]]''
+* ''[[Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Legend Of The Phantosaur]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire]]''
+* ''[[Big Top Scooby-Doo!]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy]]''
+===TV series===
-===1933-1944 Leon Schlesinger Productions===
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]]''
-The Schlesinger studio got off to a slow start, continuing their one-shot ''Merrie Melodies'' and introducing a Bosko replacement named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_(Looney_Tunes) Buddy] into the ''Looney Tunes''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney Disney] animator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Palmer_(animator) Tom Palmer] was the studio's first senior director, but after the three cartoons he made were deemed to be of unacceptable quality and rejected by the studio, former Harman-Ising animator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Freleng Isadore "Friz" Freleng] was called in to replace Palmer and rework his cartoons.The studio then formed the three-unit structure that it would retain throughout most of its history, with one of the units headed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hardaway Ben "Bugs" Hardaway], and the other by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Duvall Earl Duvall], who was replaced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_King_(animator) Jack King] a year later.
+* ''[[Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''
+===Other===
-In 1935, Freleng helmed the ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Haven%27t_Got_a_Hat I Haven't Got a Hat]'', which introduced the character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porky_Pig Porky Pig]. Hardaway and King departed, and a new arrival at Schlesinger's, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Avery Fred "Tex" Avery], took Freleng's creation and ran with it. Avery directing a string of cartoons starring Porky Pig which established the character as the studio's first bonafide star. Schlesinger also gradually moved the ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons from black and white, to two-strip [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor Technicolor] in 1934, and finally to full three-strip Technicolor in 1936. The ''Looney Tunes''would be produced in black-and-white for much longer, until 1943.
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-Because of the limited spacing conditions in the Schlesinger building at 1351 N. Van Ness on the Warner Sunset lot, Avery and his unit - including animators [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clampett Robert Clampett] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Jones Chuck Jones] - were moved into a small building elsewhere on the Sunset lot. Although the Avery unit moved out of the building after a year, it later became a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy metonym] for the classic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros. Warner Bros.] animation department in general, even for years after the building was abandoned, condemned, and torn down. During this period, four cartoons were outsourced to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks Ub Iwerks] studio; however, Iwerks struggled to adapt his style to the type of humor that the Looney Tunes had developed by this time, and so Clampett took over as director (using Iwerks' staff) for the last two of these outsourced cartoons. Schlesinger was so impressed by Clampett's work on these shorts that he opened a fourth unit for Clampett to head, although for tax reasons this was technically a separate studio headed by Schlesinger's brother-in-law, Ray Katz.
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-From 1936 until 1944, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_director animation directors] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animators animators] such as Freleng, Avery, Clampett, Jones, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Davis_(animator) Arthur Davis], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McKimson Robert McKimson], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tashlin Frank Tashlin] worked at the studio. During this period, these creators introduced several of the most popular cartoon characters to date, including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Duck Daffy Duck] (1937, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porky%27s_Duck_Hunt Porky's Duck Hunt]'' by Avery), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Fudd Elmer Fudd] (1940, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%27s_Candid_Camera Elmer's Candid Camera]'' by Jones), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny Bugs Bunny] (1940, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wild_Hare A Wild Hare]'' by Avery), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweety_Bird Tweety Bird] (1942, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Kitties A Tale of Two Kitties]'' by Clampett). Avery left the studio in 1941 following a series of disputes with Schlesinger. By 1942, the Schlesinger studio had surpassed Walt Disney Productions as the most successful producer of animated shorts in the United States.
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-===1944 - 1964 Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.===
-Schlesinger who had been making the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies, sold his studio In 1944 to Warner Bros, who renamed the company Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. The continuation of Schlesingers popular toons continued (from 1930, with Harman and Ising producing, through 1933 - 1944 under Schlessinger, and on to 1963 Under Warner, then from 1967 to 1969, Warner reestablished its own animation division in 1980 to produce Looney Tunes related work. By 1946, Tashlin, and Clampett had left, and the remaining directors - Jones, Freleng, McKimson, and Art Davis - carried on the Warner Bros. cartoon legacy. Edward Selzer, who by Jones' and Freleng's accounts had no sense of humor or appreciation of cartoons, was appointed by Warner Bros. as the new head of the cartoon studio, which moved to a larger building on the Sunset Blvd. lot in 1948. Schlesinger died in 1949.
-Among the Warner Bros. cartoon stars who were created after Schlesinger's departure include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam Yosemite Sam] (1945), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_(Looney_Tunes) Sylvester] (1945), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn Foghorn Leghorn] (1946), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_Road_Runner Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner] (1949), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales Speedy Gonzales] (1953). In later years, even more minor ''Looney Tunes'' characters such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_and_Mugsy Rocky and Mugsy], ' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian Marvin the Martian] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil_(Looney_Tunes) Tasmanian Devil] have become significantly popular too.
-After the verdict of the ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'' anti-trust case ended the practice of "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_booking block booking]", Warner Bros. could no longer force theaters into buying their features and shorts together as packages; shorts had to be sold separately. Theater owners were only willing to pay so much for cartoon shorts, and as a result by the late-1950s the budgets at Warner Bros. Cartoons became tighter. Selzer forced a stringent five-week production schedule on each cartoon (at least one director, Chuck Jones, cheated the system by spending more time on special cartoons such as ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Opera_Doc What's Opera Doc]'', less time on simpler productions such as Road Runner. With less money for full animation, the Warner Bros. story men: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maltese Michael Maltese], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedd_Pierce Tedd Pierce], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Foster Warren Foster] — began to focus more of their cartoons on dialogue. While story artists were assigned to directors at random during the 1930s and 1940s, by the 1950s each story man worked almost exclusively with one director: Maltese with Jones, Foster with Freleng, and Pierce with McKimson. Art Davis' separate unit was dissolved in 1949, and he became an animator for Freleng.
-With the advent of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film 3-D film] craze in 1953, Warner Bros. shut its cartoon studio down in June of that year, fearing that 3-D cartoon production would be too expensive and the creative staff dispersed among other studios, with Freleng moving into commercial work. Warner Bros. Cartoons re-opened five months after its close, following the end of the 3-D craze. In 1955, the staff moved into a brand new facility on the main Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLA KTLA] television took over the old studio location on Van Ness.
-By 1957, Selzer had retired, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burton John Burton] took his place. Warner Bros. also lost its trio of staff storymen at this time. Foster and Maltese found work at [[Hanna-Barbera]] Productions, while Pierce worked on a freelance basis with writing partner [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Danch&action=edit&redlink=1 Bill Danch]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Dunn John Dunn] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Detiege&action=edit&redlink=1 Dave Detiege], both former Disney men, were hired to replace them.
-During Burton's tenure, Warner Bros. Cartoons branched out into television. ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bugs_Bunny_Show The Bugs Bunny Show]'' was a package program featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. cartoons, with newly produced wraparounds to introduce each short. The program remained on the air under various names and on all three major networks for three decades, finally ending its long broadcast run on [[ABC]] in 2000. All versions of ''The Bugs Bunny Show'' included edited versions of Warner Bros. cartoons released after July 31, 1948, as all of the Technicolor cartoons released before that date were sold to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Artists_Productions Associated Artists Productions] (AAP), in 1956.
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._DePatie David H. DePatie] became the last executive in charge of the original Warner Bros. cartoons studio in 1961. The same year, Chuck Jones moonlighted to write the script for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Productions_of_America UPA]-produced feature titled ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Purr-ee Gay Purr-ee]''. When that film was picked up by Warner Bros. for distribution in 1962, the studio learned that Jones had violated his exclusive contract with Warners and he was terminated. Animator [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Monroe&action=edit&redlink=1 Phil Monroe] supervised the completion of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iceman_Ducketh The Iceman Ducketh]'', the last cartoon Jones had been working on; the remainder of the Jones unit was laid off after its completion. Most of Jones' former unit subsequently re-joined him at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Animation/Visual_Arts Sib Tower 12 Productions]; Freleng left the studio in November 1962, four months after Jones' termination, to serve as story director for the feature ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_There,_It%27s_Yogi_Bear! Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!]'' at Hanna-Barbera; his layout artist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Pratt Hawley Pratt] directed the Freleng unit's final cartoon, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1orella_and_the_Glass_Huarache Señorella and the Glass Huarache]''.
-In mid-1962, DePatie was sent to a board meeting in New York, and he was informed that the studio was going to be shut down, due to decline in budgets to produce shorts and decline in theatre attendance (mainly due to competition with television). DePatie completed the task by spring 1963. The final cartoon to be completed was the Bugs Bunny cartoon ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Hare False Hare]'', directed by Robert McKimson, while ''Señorella and the Glass Huarache'' was the final cartoon to be released in 1964. The final project at the studio before it closed for good was the animated sequences, directed by McKimson, for the 1964 Warner Bros. feature ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Mr._Limpet The Incredible Mr. Limpet]''. With the studio closed, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Seeger Hal Seeger Productions] in New York had to be contracted to produce the opening and closing credits for ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Porky_Pig_Show The Porky Pig Show]'', which debuted on [[ABC]] in 1964. This marked one of the first times that the ''Looney Tunes'' characters were animated outside of the Los Angeles area.
-===1964-1967 Warner Bros. Cartoons & DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Format Films===
-DePatie and Freleng started [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePatie-Freleng_Enterprises DePatie-Freleng Enterprises] in 1963, and leased the old Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. In 1964, Warners contracted DePatie-Freleng to produce more ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'', an arrangement which lasted until 1967. The vast majority of these paired off Daffy Duck against Speedy Gonzales, and after a few initial cartoons directed by Freleng, Robert McKimson was hired to direct most of the remaining DePatie-Freleng ''Looney Tunes.''
-In addition to DePatie-Freleng's cartoons, a series of new shorts featuring ''The Road Runner'' and ''Wile E. Coyote'' was commissioned from an independent animation studio, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Klynn Herbert Klynn]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_Films Format Films]. Veteran Warner animator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Larriva Rudy Larriva], who had worked for years under Road Runner creator Chuck Jones, assumed directorial duties for these films, but even with the Jones connection Larriva's Road Runner shorts are considered to be mediocre by critics. McKimson also directed an additional two Road Runner shorts with the main DePatie-Freleng team, which are slightly better regarded than Larriva's efforts.
-After three years of outsourced cartoons, Warner Bros. decided to bring production back in-house. DePatie-Freleng had their contract terminated (they subsequently moved to new studios in the San Fernando Valley), and Format Films were commissioned to produce three "buffer" cartoons with Daffy and Speedy (again, directed by Rudy Larriva) to fill the gap until Warner Bros.'s own studio was up and running again.
-===1967-1969 Warner Bros & Seven Arts Cartoons===
-The new cartoon studio was to be headed by studio executive William L. Hendricks, and after an unsuccessful attempt at luring Bob Clampett out of retirement, former [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lantz_Studio Walter Lantz Studio] and Hanna-Barbera animator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Lovy Alex Lovy] was appointed director at the new studio. He brought his longtime collaborator, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Harding Laverne Harding] to be the new studio's chief animator, and brought in disney animator Volus Jones and Ed Solomon which contributed to make cartoons from this era of the studio stylistically quite different from the studio's "Golden Age" (though for good measure, Lovy also brought in animator Ted Bonnicksen and layout artist Bob Givens, both veterans of the original studio). Shortly after the studio opened, Warner Bros. was bought out by Seven Arts Associates, and the studio renamed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
-Initially, Lovy's new team produced more Daffy and Speedy cartoons, but soon moved to creating new characters such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Cat Cool Cat] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_the_Magic_Mouse Merlin the Magic Mouse], and even occasional experimental works such as ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Normal Norman Normal]'' (1968). Despite the latter gaining a cult following after its release, Lovy's cartoons were not well received, and many enthusiasts regard them (particularly his Daffy-Speedy efforts) as the worst cartoons ever produced by the studio.
-After a year, Alex Lovy left and returned to Hanna-Barbera, and Robert McKimson was bought back to the studio; for the most part though, he focused on using the characters that Lovy had created (and two of his own creation: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_and_Claude Bunny and Claude]) rather than the studio's classic characters. The new studio's cartoons remained unpopular however, and in 1969 Warners ceased production on all its short subjects and shut the studio down for good. The back catalog of ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' shorts would remain a popular broadcast and syndication package for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Television Warner Bros. Television] well into the 2000s, by which time it had reacquired the pre-August 1948 shorts it sold to a.a.p. in 1956.
-===1970 - present: Warner Bros. Cartoons & Warnere Bros. Animation===
-With Warners' own animation studio closed for the second time, the studio had to resort to outside producers whenever new ''Looney Tunes''-related animation was required. In 1976, Chuck Jones, by this time the head of his own [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Jones_Productions Chuck Jones Productions] studio, began producing a series of ''Looney Tunes'' specials, the first of which was ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_the_Animals Carnival of the Animals]''. In 1979, Jones produced new wraparound footage for a compilation feature of ''Looney Tunes'' shorts entitled ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bugs_Bunny/Road_Runner_Movie The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie]''. The success of this film spurred Warner Bros. to establish its own studio to produce similar works, and Warner Bros. Animation opened its doors in 1980. to produce ''Looney Tunes'' related work.
-Under the supervision of Friz Freleng, three new compilation features were produced: ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Looney_Looney_Looney_Bugs_Bunny_Movie The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie]'', ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny%27s_Third_Movie:_1001_Rabbit_Tales Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales]'', and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Duck%27s_Movie:_Fantastic_Island Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island]''. Later in the decade, the concept of compilation films was revived by writer-directors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ford Greg Ford] and Terry Lennon, and new short subjects were produced for theatres.
-Warner Bros. Animation continues sporadic production of ''Looney Tunes''-related specials and TV series to this day, the most recent being the Saturday morning action series ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy:_The_Animated_Series Police Academy: The Animated Series]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonatics_Unleashed Loonatics Unleashed]''. The studio's main focus is on original and licensed television programming; in this field, Warner Bros. Animation has had major successes with ''Looney Tunes''-esque shows such as ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Toon_Adventures Tiny Toon Adventures]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animaniacs Animaniacs]'', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics DC Comics]-licensed shows such as ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series Batman: The Animated Series]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_The_Animated_Series Superman: The Animated Series]'', and shows based upon other properties such as ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Mucha_Lucha! ¡Mucha Lucha!]'' and Hanna-Barbera's ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]'' (H-B was acquired by WB in 1996 as part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Broadcasting_System Turner]-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner Time Warner] merger). The studio briefly delved into feature animation production from 1994 to 2003, although ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam Space Jam]'' (1996), a live-action/animation combination film starring National Basketball Association star [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan Michael Jordan] opposite the ''Looney Tunes'' characters, remains the studio's only financially successful feature. The abandonment of feature film animation was mainly due to the poor box office performance of the feature ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes:_Back_in_Action Looney Tunes: Back in Action]''.
-==Trivia==
-The classic Warner Bros. animation studio is sometimes referred to as '''"Termite Terrace"''', a name given to the temporary headquarters Tex Avery and his animators were assigned to during Avery's first year as a ''Looney Tunes'' director.
-Only one Warner Bros. cartoon was ever produced in 3-D, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber_Jack-Rabbit Lumber Jack-Rabbit]'' starring Bugs Bunny.