From The WTF File

Here, from 1969, is the last cartoon from Warner Brothers' reactivated cartoon studio, with Cool Cat starring in the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Injun Trouble," a cartoon filled with bad jokes and silly puns. This cartoon, with story by Cal Howard, animation by Ted Bonnicksen, La Verne Harding, Jim Davis (NOT the creator of Garfield), and Ed Solomon, layouts by Bob Givens and Jaime Diaz, backgrounds by Bob McIntosh, editing by Hal Geer and Don Douglas, music by William Lava, and voice characterizations by Larry Storch (F Troop), was produced by Bill Hendricks and directed by longtime studio veteran Robert McKimson.



Warner Brothers, which had closed its' original cartoon studio in 1963, had released Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1964 through 1966 produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. Those cartoons starred the Road Runner (with Wile E. Coyote) and Daffy Duck, who in his case, was teamed up with Speedy Gonzales. By 1967, Warner Brothers reactivated its' cartoon studio. That same year, the movie studio merged with the Seven Arts conglomerate. During this two-year period, new Daffy-Speedy cartoons were produced, but new characters such as Merlin the Magic Mouse and Cool Cat were also introduced. Longtime animation veteran Alex Lovy was called upon to direct these cartoons, but he was replaced in 1968 by studio veteran McKimson. On Bob's watch, Daffy and Speedy were finally retired, and still more, but short-lived, new characters, such as Bunny and Claude and Rapid Rabbit and Quick Brown Fox were added, but they appeared in only one or two shorts before WB-7A ceased production of short subjects, including cartoons.