Spooney Melodies was a series of live action

Live action

In filmmaking, video production, and other media, the term live action refers to cinematography, videography not produced using animation...

 musical shorts produced Warner Brothers aimed to showcase popular tunes of the day.

Only five are believed to have been made in 1930 and 1931. The only one short is known to have survived, each short is thought to be ca. six minutes long and features art deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

 style animations combined with film of the live-action performer. For its time those shorts are considered to be innovative and could be considered to be one of the earliest music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s. This series was replaced with an animation only series called Merrie Melodies

Merrie Melodies

Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...

in 1931, also produced by Leon Schlesinger

Leon Schlesinger

Leon Schlesinger was an American film producer, most noted for founding Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the golden age of Hollywood animation.-Early life and career:...

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Spooney Melodies — 5 titles

Title	Director	Release date	LTGC availability (all as special features)	Notes
Cryin' for the Carolines	Unknown		LTGC Volume 1, Disc 3 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. It contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements...  (part of ToonHeads ToonHeads The TV series ToonHeads is an animation anthology series consisting of uncut Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Warner Bros. cartoon shorts, with interesting background information and trivia, prominently by animators and voice actors like: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Hugh Harman, Rudy Ising, David H. DePatie, Friz... : The Lost Cartoons) LTGC Volume 6, Disc 3 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6 is a four-disc DVD box set collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on October 21, 2008....	A live basic animation 5 minute short featuring Milton Charles, "The Singing Organist." The only known surviving one of the 'Spooney Melodies' series.
Just a Gigolo	Unknown
Say a Little Prayer for Me	Unknown
When your Lover has gone	Unknown
For You	Unknown