Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Now Showing: "A Wild Hare" starring Bugs Bunny



On this day in 1940 Bugs Bunny made his cartoon debut, starring alongside Elmer Fudd in A Wild Hare; the prototype Bugs who appeared in Porky's Hare Hunt in April 1938 was never named and therefore, to purists like me, can't really be considered the genuine article any more than the little black duck in Porky's Duck Hunt can be considered Daffy Duck.

A Wild Hare was directed by Tex Avery, and features many of the usual suspects one comes to associate with the Merrie Melodies: Bugs is voiced by Mel Blanc and Elmer by Arthur Q. Bryan, with animation by Virgil Ross (supervising Robert McKimson, Rod Scribner, and Charles McKimson) and music by Carl Stalling.
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2 comments:

  1. GavinMonday, July 28, 2008 at 6:58:00 AM PDT

    Kinda cool that all the classic Bugs elements (What's Up Doc?, etc.) were there right from the start.

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  2. michael sean morrisTuesday, July 29, 2008 at 2:33:00 PM PDT

    My favourite is when he ties the barrels of Elmer Fudd's rifle into a bow. That gets me every time!

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