This was one of my favorites as a kid. It all came back to me as I watched this again. The one thing I always remembered from it was all the Clark Gables poking out of The House of Seven Gables. I used to think that was so funny.

2:24 Love this Cab Calloway bit

Shit just went from singing happily to complete anarchy in a matter of seconds

Imma 2003 kid and these been part of my childhood 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 nostalgia

I just watched this with my mother who is 96. She loved it. I loved these Merrie Melodies cartoons. Always will.

Its like I'm 4 years old again 🙂 This episode was so incredibly witty, fun, innovative, and very ahead of its time! The way they bring those book titles to life in such an inventive and creative way.. bravo! I absolutely love the swing-for-sale part. The Frankenstein/Fu-Man-Chu part always scared me though!

This was my son's favourite episode, and that's what got him into reading books. 📖

The town crier was an based on Alexander Woollcott. When the short was re-released after his death, his scenes were cut. But was eventually restored for the Golden Collection DVD set. Albeit with the Blue Ribbon re-release version.

The featured books include the following: The Town Crier Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Fu Man Chu The Phantom of the Opera Frankenstein The Good Earth The Invisible Man Topper The Thirty-Nine Steps So Big Green Pastures Heidi The Thin Man White House Cook Book Great Works of Art Little Women Little Men Old King Cole The House of Seven Gables Bulldog Drummond The Life of Louis Pasteur Seventh Heaven Mutiny on the Bounty Rip Van Winkle The Valiant Little Tailor Uncle Tom's Cabin Castles The Three Musketeers Drums Along the Mohawk Book of Etiquette Henry the Eighth Mother India Diamond Jim Oliver Twist So Red the Nose The Pied Piper Three Men on a Horse Seven Keys to Baldpate Prisoner of Zenda Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp The Informer Little Boy Blew Charge of the Light Brigade Robinson Crusoe All Quiet on the Western Front Under Two Flags Hurricane Gone with the Wind

4:35 First time, success 5:15 Second time, fail

I remember watching this before learning English back in the early 2000s, I didn’t understand a word back then, rewatching this brings back so many memories about this

I watch this when i was 7 years old... But now i am 25 years old...my childhood days is over and now i love marvel comics, movies, cartoons and serials..

1:10 used to scare the crap out of me

I wasn't even around when this came out but I had the the dvds I used to watch every day so this is one of the ones I remember a lot.

Man did music change in 80 years 😮

The Old King Cole parts were my favorite.

Found this gem from my childhood and looking back there’s so much happening

While filled with stereotypes, this is still a incredibly fun cartoon.

I'm surprised this video allows Comments seeing as how they turned off all the comments on mostly all the looney tunes videos on KZfaq. For whatever stupid reason

I remember seeing this cartoon on a public domain Porky Pig VHS I had when I was a little kid. Unfortunately the last part which shows the cuckoo clock bird muzzled by Rip Van Winkle is cut.

I loved this as a kid

5:19 I lost it when he cut half of his beard off

This gives me such good memories from my childhood, my dad had tons of dvds worth of looney tunes so I got to all the classics and this was always my favorite.

Lots of nostalgia with this one

85 Years Later, STILL TIMELESS 😮😮😮

4:06 - Old King Cole am a merry old soul! 😊 4:13 - Old King Cole! I'm a merry old soul! 😊 4:48 - I went down in history! 😊

wow i love that i got to see this! this was in the depths of my memory and brings me back to when i was a kid . so nice

By far one of the best "book/brochure covers come to life" shorts. Beaten only by Book Revue by Bob Clampett. But you can't really beat Book Revue.

I had the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 and this was on it, along with I Love To Singa, Book Revue, Baby Bottleneck and What's Opera Doc I had the true collection

I remember watching this as a kid. But I only remember the opening part with Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, the Phantom, and Frankenstein. I never realized that they danced afterwards.

I have a bunch of merrie melodies and looney toons dvds, but theyve been through so many car rides in the portable dvd player and hapzadard cartoon binges that theyre scratched beyond watchability. With that and the lack of any dvd compatable devices these days, uploads like this are the only way i can watch these old cartoons and confirm they werent fever dreams or something

This always reminded me of book review with daffy duck

Classic memories

Looking back at these cartoons I've realized a lot of things. 1. Classic cartoons are more imaginative and intellectual, the music composed and the clever jokes are what make these toons timeless. 2. While I understand in the past you could get away with a lot more like how black men and women are portrayed and it might offend a lot of people in this new generation, but to be perfectly frank I never thought anything bad about how White, Black, Mexican, Asian, etc. are portrayed because even as a kid I understood it was a joke and it never occurred to me to take offense at a cartoon which I genuinely enjoyed because it was funny and entertaining. People can't take a silly joke anymore unless it's making fun of the comedian or roasting somebody else, it doesn't matter if the joke is Racist, Sexual, or Sexist as long as your not the butt of the joke your ego is fine. 3.The music is lit. 🔥 4. Again, these cartoons had much more meaning behind them. Cartoons now a days try too hard to build a complex character arc story and background and all that crap, while it's not a bad thing to build a world around you sometimes it's good to just dive in and tell a story unrelated to the story before, also lets face it the only reason why new cartoons now have this complex build up is to sell the franchise. Even in kid cartoons were you try to fit in a lesson you honestly have to baby talk a kid to remember how to breathe while drooling brain dead on an Ipad. 5. I just wanna watch a damn cartoon to distract me from the world for 5 freaking minutes, I don't care what gender the character is, their sexuality, beliefs, name? I don't care! You don't even need the best voice acting cast in the world the tell a story just look at Tom & Jerry! Show me what's happening, if I wanted a whole dialogue I would have read the back cover of a book summary then there would be no point in reading the book. (I did not expect to vent so much about this but for what it's worth I hope some of us feel the same way. It's not that I hate the new things going on it's just that I miss the simple times is all. I'm only 20 years old and yet my mind feels like I've seen generations skip by.)

Damn I remeber this back when I watching them with my grandpa. Fuck I love these memories.

1:09 This Scene Scared The Crap Out Of Me When I Was A Kid Until They Started Dancing

6:28 when you hear a party in your basement

The Amount Of Books In This One Cartoon. I Wrote A Bunch Of Em Down

I never realized that the 'Have You Got Any Castles' Song from 5:00 to 5:40 was actually based around an actual song released the year prior. The lyrics and sound effects follow the flow of the actual song.

Warner Brothers underwrote and distributed cartoons primarily to promote the songs in their music library and featured in their live action musicals. And they usually wanted the song titles to be the names of the cartoons. Both Have You Got Any Castles? and Old King Cole are Richard Whiting-Johnny Mercer songs from the 1937 film Varsity Show. Once the songs were placed and the title shown Warners didn't much care what else happened in the cartoon. So, stuck with the title Have You Got Any Castles?, Tashlin had the Three Musketeers enter the film from a castle and let it go at that.

If there was a cartoon HOF then Cab Calloway would undoubtedly be in it

In this cartoon, characters from various books of literature come to life like never before in a library after hours.

Use to love this cartoon

Little Boy Blew - he needed the money 😅😅😅😂😂😂

green pastures is probably my favorite bit in this lol. it's so catchy

4:37 Old KingCole is a noisy old soul.

oh sweet memories..

5:57 those were the good ol' days when we still gave snitches stiches.

The best episode next to "Hollywood Steps in"

this cartoon is, as the kids would call it, chaotic.

I quote this quite often. I use to have a bugs and porky VHS tape with different episodes. Brings me back

the pied piper part has always stuck with me.

I love the shootout at the end

I wanna see the following adapted by Tezuka Productions, drawn in Tezuka style: The Three Musketeers Thumbelina The Wild Swans The Snow Queen

Anyone else notice that the clock at the beginning reads midnight, but the cuckoo bird only chirps ten times?

2:18

I remember about this one too very funny

♪ "A Warner Bros. Cartoon." ♪

All is well, all is well.

A crazy fun fact, a lot of the books titles are based on real books, fairy tales, and even nursery rhymes Edit: those scenes made me laugh a lot 5:17 5:59 god this brings back good nostalgic memories when I watched it when I was a kid.

1:09 that was frightening then juxtaposed with a funny dance.

2:47 I love the harmony

5:15 I'll get out my scissors that cut.

masterpiece

Eu assisti esse quando eu era criança, que nostalgia😢❤ Mas lembro que era bem mais longo com mais episódios, alguém me ajuda a encontrar a versão completa com mais desenhos incluso nesse ?! Por favor❤😢

All is well, all is well!

This would make an interesting streaming series.

1:13-4:06-4:15-4:39-1:28-1:35

4:11, 4:18, 4:42 it's "Bulldog Drummond", not "Bulldog Drummin" for the actual real tale title!

It says that the town crier scenes was some unknown reasons been cut out from this short. But this one is restored.

Some of my favorite episodes in Looney Tunes history is this and Book Revue.

Childhood

The part where the black peoples are singing came from Clean Pastures a censored cartoon because it was considered too inappropriate for kids.

4:44

I'm surprised Sherlock Holmes isn't in this tbh

Much better as an adult. But I still enjoyed the Mr. Christian went on a meal part all the same.

For so long, I wondered where all the Looney Tunes characters were (I first saw this on a Looney Tunes DVD).

The jokes are too much 🤣🤣🤣

when i was kid, this episode scares me

An absolute brilliant cartoon, but should have won an Oscar. It brings to life, the literary classics for children and adults to enjoy. Modern cartoons are something to laugh at these days, because of their pathetic content and quality.

5:24 LMFAO XD 😂😂😂

2:18 - 2:55

Pobre Luis pasteur quién sabe qué mezclo y luego luego exploto y se fue al cielo

1:22 they were holding back a sneeze

5:59 That's what I'd do to the Wind if it never shuts up

5:58 This is me!

I was scared of the Heidi Hi lady lol Kinda still am

3:45 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...

No Old 1938

4:11 4:18 4:42 DROP DAT BEAT

I wonder & think what every author reacts to this cartoon from 1938

No Junk Food

At 1:08 it is supposed to be Jekyll not Jekyl, a typo there

6:27 Why won't they let me sleep!?

Old King Cole: (singing) ♪ I went down . . . ♪ What does that mean?

😭

Do anyone know what the 3 musketeers were saying? 5:00

Classic

The House of Seven Gables, great joke.

4:25 qué buen libro la vida de Luis pasteur mezclo ácido cítrico con con ácido cítrico y explotó y se fue al cielo