Sunset Productions

Sunset Productions, Inc. was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that notably licensed the syndication rights to their black & white animated short subjects to Guild Films in 1955. Seven Arts eventually acquired these rights following Guild's bankruptcy in 1961, which were eventually regained by Warner through the merger between both companies in 1967.

Logo (1955)

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Visuals:

• Opening: On a "sky" background, a cut-out collage of six Looney Tunes characters, including Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, is shown. The stamp "Copyright (year) by SUNSET PRODUCTIONS, Inc." is below.
• Closing: The same image, but the words "THE END" and "A GUILD FILMS PRESENTATION" appear at the middle and bottom corners, respectively, instead of the stamp.

Trivia:

• The Roman numerals used for this logo are incorrect, as the first "X" should be a "C".
• The character drawings are cut directly from old lobby cards for Warner's cartoons. Porky and Daffy are from My Favorite Duck, a Scottish rabbit from Hop and Go, the crying hound from Rhythm in the Bow, the drunk dog heckler from Shake Your Powder Puff, and an alley cat from Sittin' on a Backyard Fence.

Variant: At least two different redrawn colorized versions of the logo exist, with one having a red background and the other having a green background, both of which obviously appeared on certain prints of the redrawn colorized versions of some shorts, produced in 1967 by Fred Ladd's Color Systems Inc. for Seven Arts Television.

Technique:

• The whole logo is a still frame: the characters seen in the logo are ripped from lobby cards of their respective cartoons, while the background is likely a live-action photograph.
• For the redrawn colorized version, it is done on a cel sheet.

Audio: The opening/closing theme of the cartoon.

Availability

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Media Title	Date(s) of Release	Additional Note(s)
Sinkin' in the Bathtub	April 19, 1930
Congo Jazz	August 9, 1930
Hold Anything	August 22, 1930
Big Man from the North	December 6, 1930
Ain't Nature Grand!	December 13, 1930
Box Car Blues	December 15, 1930
The Booze Hangs High	December 19, 1930
Ups 'n Downs	January 17, 1931
Dumb Patrol	March 2, 1931
Yodeling Yokels	March 28, 1931
Bosko's Holiday	May 15, 1931
The Tree's Knees	May 15, 1931
Lady, Play Your Mandolin!	August 2, 1931
Bosko Shipwrecked!	September 19, 1931
Bosko the Doughboy	October 17, 1931
Bosko's Soda Fountain	November 14, 1931
Bosko's Fox Hunt	December 12, 1931
Bosko at the Zoo	December 31, 1931
Battling Bosko	February 6, 1932
Big-Hearted Bosko	March 5, 1932
Bosko's Party	April 2, 1932
Bosko and Bruno	April 30, 1932
Bosko's Dog Race	June 25, 1932
Bosko at the Beach	July 23, 1932
Bosko's Store	August 13, 1932
Bosko the Lumberjack	September 3, 1932
Ride Him, Bosko!	September 17, 1932
Bosko the Drawback	October 22, 1932
Bosko's Dizzy Date	November 19, 1932
Bosko's Woodland Daze	December 17, 1932
Bosko in Dutch	January 14, 1933
Bosko the Speed King	March 22, 1933
Bosko in Person	February 11, 1933
Bosko's Knight-Mare	June 8, 1933
Bosko the Sheep-Herder	June 14, 1933
Beau Bosko	July 1, 1933
Bosko's Mechanical Man	July 29, 1933
Bosko the Musketeer	August 12, 1933
Bosko's Picture Show	August 26, 1933
Buddy's Day Out	September 9, 1933
Buddy's Beer Garden	November 11, 1933
Buddy's Show Boat	December 9, 1933
Buddy the Gob	January 13, 1934
Buddy's Trolley Troubles	May 5, 1934
Buddy of the Apes	May 26, 1934
Buddy's Bearcats	June 23, 1934
Plane Dippy	January 4, 1936
Alpine Antics	January 18, 1936
Porky's Railroad	August 7, 1937
Porky's Preview	April 19, 1941