Termite Terrace

Termite Terrace was the original Warner Bros. animation studio for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the very first major Warner Bros. cartoon star, Porky Pig. Unlike most other golden-aged animation studios, including Disney, Terrytoons, MGM, Fleischer Studios (which became Famous Studios), UPA, Walter Lantz Productions and Hanna-Barbera, which used much larger buildings, Termite Terrace was a very small building made of clapboard, and very infested with insects, especially termites. It was located on the original Warner Bros. studio lot on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, now the Sunset Bronson Studios. The original Termite Terrace building was almost condemned and demolished in the early 1940s (and really has to get fixed), but its nickname persisted as a nickname for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio until the studio was shut down in 1964.

Why It Rocked

 * 1) It was the world's very first major cartoon division of the one of the world's leaders in filmmaking.
 * 2) A very good concept of the major movie studios' cartoon division.
 * 3) Zany-type animation for larger budgets.
 * 4) It had only TWO series of animated short films, Looney Tunes (for the one-reel very zany slapstick comedies) and Merrie Melodies (for the short-length musical comedies).
 * 5) Its most popular character, Bugs Bunny, which he was the official mascot of Warner Bros., when Bugs stole the show in the late-1930s.
 * 6) Its tone of slapstick humor for the cartoons.
 * 7) Wonderful voice acting, especially from Mel Blanc.
 * 8) Although it was a little bit damaged, the Termite Terrace crew always need to get fixed up.
 * 9) Good directing, especially from Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones.
 * 10) Tex Avery did a very good job receive the first three major Warner Bros. cartoon stars, a very first starring role:
 * 11) * The Blow Out (1936, Porky Pig)
 * 12) * Daffy Duck and Egghead (1938, Daffy Duck)
 * 13) * A Wild Hare (1940, Bugs Bunny)
 * 14) Very humorous writing.
 * 15) Its very whimsical, catchy and extremely memorable theme tune, "Merrily, We Roll Along". It even got to the point where "Merrily, We Roll Along" was used for Warner Bros. Animation's feature film division, Warner Animation Group.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The cartoon apartment building was almost a little bit infested with bugs, especially termites, however, it always has to get fixed up.