Honeymoon Hotel

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Airdate:	Runtime:
17 February 1934	7 min. 24 sec.

Series:

Merrie Melodies

Production Number:
MM-4-3

Copyright Renewed:

13 April 1961^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

The Rhythmettes
The Varsity Three
Bernard B. Brown
Shirley Reed^[2]

Director:

Earl Duvall

Producer:

Leon Schlesinger

Animated By:

Jack King
Frank Tipper
Bob Clampett (uncredited)
Paul Fennell (uncredited)
Chuck Jones (uncredited)
Frank Tashlin (uncredited)

Film Editor:

Bernard Brown (uncredited)
Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Bernard Brown

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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.

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Notes[]

This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon produced in color.
- This was 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 1942's "The Hep Cat".
The song "Honeymoon Hotel" was written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and was introduced in the 1933 Warner Bros. film Footlight Parade.
Both American and European Turner "dubbed" versions of this short kept the original ending title card with a "dubbed" 1995 notice.^[3]
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.
Vitaphone release number: 6126