This was the final run of the original Screen Gems Cartoons shorts for Columbia Pictures, after UPA's first theatrical short Robin Hoodlum (1948) was released and Screen Gems Television was founded the previous year (later renamed Columbia Pictures Television in 1974). Meanwhile, UPA took over to produce the shorts for Columbia from 1948 to 1959 and later Hanna-Barbera from 1959 to 1965 for their distribution after UPA expired its contract by Columbia in 1959 and started releasing television cartoons onwards.
Color Rhapsodies is a likely nod to the Silly Symphonies shorts, offered by rival studio Disney.
Both characters break the fourth wall, which was not as common as it would become in cartoons a decade later.
Released theatrically with The Secret of St. Ives (1949)
Final acting role of Cal Howard.