The head offices of Acme are depicted, revealing it to be a multinational corporation whose executive officers are led by the film's main antagonist, Mr.
The Tiny Toon Adventures series expanded on Acme's influence, with the entire setting of the show taking place in a city called "Acme Acres".Many of the film's scenes involve Acme products and the film's climax is set in an Acme warehouse. The movie's plot is centered on the murder of the corporation's founder, Marvin Acme ( Stubby Kaye). The 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit attempted to explain Acme's inner workings in detail.Films, shows and cartoons based on Looney Tunes characters often deal with Acme Corporation.Coyote smashed into an ACME Instant Tunnel on the wall of the Rotch Library at MITĮxamples which specifically reference the Wile E. can merely drop an order into a mailbox (or enter an order on a website, as in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie), and have the product in his hands within seconds.Ī mural of Wile E. While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none Wile E. Coyote for example, the Acme Giant Rubber Band, subtitled "(For Tripping Road Runners)". Many of its products appear to be produced specifically for Wile E. In the Road Runner cartoon Beep, Beep, it was referred to as "Acme Rocket-Powered Products, Inc." based in Fairfield, New Jersey. The company is never clearly defined in Road Runner cartoons but appears to be a conglomerate which produces every product type imaginable, no matter how elaborate or extravagant-most of which never work as desired or expected (some products do work very well, but backfire against the coyote).
Instead of today's amber/yellow traffic light, bells rang as the small red and green lights with "Stop" and "Go" semaphore arms changed - a process that took five seconds. At the time the Acme Traffic Signal Company produced the traffic lights in Los Angeles, the city where Warner Bros. Whistles and traffic lights Ī real-world advertisement for ACME anvilsĪ whistle named 'Acme City', made from mid-1870s onwards by J Hudson & Co, followed by the "Acme Thunderer", and " Acme siren" in 1895, were the early brand names bearing the names with the word 'Acme'. Why? Because "AC" was about as high as you could go it means the best the superlative. Why? Because in the yellow pages if you looked, say, under drugstores, you'd find the first one would be Acme Drugs. Whenever we played a game where we had a grocery store or something we called it the ACME corporation. You couldn't go and buy one that's where the terms Acme came from. If you wanted to conduct an orchestra you got a stick. If you wanted a bow and arrow you got a stick. Since we had to search out our own entertainment, we devised our own fairy stories. Warner Brothers animator Chuck Jones described the reason 'Acme' was used in cartoons at the time: It was also used in the Pink Panther Show, where the name Acme was used on several episodes of the show's first installment in 1969, one of them being "Pink Pest Control".
It also appears as the ACME Mining company owned by the villain Rod Lacy in the 1952 Western The Duel at Silver Creek and in a 1938 short Violent Is the Word for Curly where The Three Stooges appear as gas station attendants at an Acme Service Station.
It briefly appeared in the Walt Disney Donald Duck episode Cured Duck released in 1945.
The name Acme began being depicted in film starting in the silent era, such as the 1920 Neighbors with Buster Keaton and the 1922 Grandma's Boy with Harold Lloyd, continuing with TV series, such as in early episodes of I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show, comic strips and cartoons, especially those made by Warner Bros., and commercials. It is used in an ironic sense in cartoons, because the products are often failure-prone or explosive. It has been falsely claimed to be an acronym, either for "A Company Making Everything", "American Companies Make Everything", or "American Company that Manufactures Everything." During the 1920s, the word was commonly used in the names of businesses in order to be listed toward the beginning of alphabetized telephone directories like the Yellow Pages, and implied being the best. The name Acme comes from the Greek (ακμή, English transliteration: akmē), meaning summit, highest point, extremity or peak.
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