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Falling Hare | |
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Directed by | Bob Clampett |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
Story by | Warren Foster |
Starring | Mel Blanc (uncredited) |
Music by | Musical direction: Carl W. Stalling Orchestra: Milt Franklyn (uncredited) |
Animation by | Rod Scribner Virgil Ross (uncredited) Thomas and Robert McKimson (both uncredited) Phil Monroe (uncredited) Bill Melendez (uncredited) Manny Gould (uncredited) |
Layouts by | Thomas McKimson (uncredited) |
Backgrounds by | Michael Sasanoff (uncredited) |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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8 minutes (one reel) | |
Language | English |
Sep 16, 2015 Early to Bet - Gesundheit John Bell. Unsubscribe from John Bell? LOONEY TUNES CARTOON COMPILATION Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig & More 4 Hours - Duration: 3:57:38. Early to Bet, released on May 12, 1951, was a seven minute masterpiece starring one of history’s most politically incorrect leading characters, The Gambling Bug. Sporting a green tie, a red jacket, a brown hat and a white tuxedo, this little bug had a big impact on his fellow characters.
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The Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. His first and only cartoon appearance is in Early to Bet (1951). He wears a green bow tie, a red jacket, a brown hat, and a white tuxedo. Oct 22, 2012 Edit of 'Bugs Bunny - Bonanza Bunny'. Edit of 'Bugs Bunny - Bonanza Bunny'. Skip navigation Sign in. This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. This is 'Bugs Bunny Rides Again' by Mohammed on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. May 12, 1951 The Gambling Bug causes gambling fever in anyone he bites. He bites a cat, who becomes eager to play gin-rummy with a bulldog for penalties. Even though he keeps losing and has to endure more and more painful penalties, the cat is compelled by the Gambling Bug's bite. The Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. He wears a green tie, a red jacket, a brown hat and a white tuxedo. Early to Bet is the only appearance of this character.
Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, and starring Bugs Bunny in the Merrie Melodies series. As with many Bugs Bunny cartoons, the title is a play on words; 'falling hair' refers to impending baldness, while in this cartoon's climax the title turns out to be descriptive of Bugs's situation (a hare falling / crashing to earth). This cartoon is notable for being one of few that has Bugs Bunny serve as the 'butt' of much of the humor.
This cartoon opens with the title credits over the strains of “Down by the Riverside”, then into an extended series of establishing shots of an Army Air Force base, to the brassy strains of “We’re in to Win” (a World War II song also sung by Daffy Duck in Scrap Happy Daffy two months before). The sign at the base reads 'U.S. Army Air Field', and below that is shown the location, the number of planes and number of men, all marked 'Censored' as a reference to military secrecy. Beneath those categories, the sign reads 'What men think of top sergeant', which is shown with a large white-on-black 'CENSORED!!', as the language implied would not pass scrutiny by the Hays Office.
Bugs is found reclining on a piece of ordnance next to a bomber plane, idly reading Victory Thru Hare Power (a spoof of the 1942 book).[1]Bugs Bunny, leaning on a blockbuster bomb, is seen laughing uproariously; he turns to the audience and shares what he is reading: an accusation that gremlins wreck American planes through 'di-a-bo-lick-al saa-boh-tay-jee,' a notion that Bugs finds ludicrous. A little yellow humanoid with airplane wings on a large blue helmet scuttles by and begins striking the bomb with a mallet, whistling 'I've Been Working on the Railroad.' Noticing the creature's lack of success, Bugs offers to take a shot at the bomb and takes a long hard swing, stopping immediately before making contact in sudden realization that he had nearly been hoodwinked. He then ponders if the creature in question were a gremlin, and the gremlin affirms with a shout: 'It ain't Vendell Villkie!'
The gremlin knocks Bugs out with a monkey wrench, and when the gremlin revives him, Bugs speaks nonsensically as Lennie Small, then Baby Snooks. Quickly regaining consciousness, a now infuriated Bugs gives chase, repeatedly getting slighted by the amused gremlin, which includes repeated strikes with a monkey wrench and laughing to the tune of 'Yankee Doodle.' Upon chasing the gremlin inside a bomber, Bugs finds himself locked from the outside, and then the gremlin takes the plane to the air, unbeknownst to Bugs. Bugs manages to burst out of the exit door and narrowly escapes plunging to his death when he realizes the plane is airborne (realizing he has made himself a jackass as the Private Snafu theme plays). He manages to get back in, in the process showing a heretofore-unseen ability to fly like a bird, only to slide right out the other door due to strategically placed banana skins; when the gremlin opens the door again, he finds a terrified Bugs clinging to it with his heart pounding '4F' (Army code for drastically limiting medical condition, hospitalization required, and/or ineligible to be inducted via the draft).[2]
By this point, the gremlin is flying the plane through a city with two large skyscrapers. Bugs rushes into the cockpit, takes control of the airplane, rolls it vertically, and flies through an extremely narrow slot between the towers to avoid what seemed to be an inevitable impact.
The plane goes into a steep nosedive, its wings ripping off during its descent, with only the fuselage remaining, making Bugs both airsick and terrified. The gremlin nonchalantly awaits the plane's crash while playing with a yo-yo. The plane then unexpectedly sputters to a halt, half a short distance above the ground and hanging in mid-air, defying gravity. Both Bugs and the Gremlin then casually address the audience: the gremlin apologizes for the plane's fuel depletion, while Bugs points to a wartime gas rationing sticker on the plane's windshield and remarks: 'Yeah. You know how it is with these A cards!'[1][3]
Falling Hare is available on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, remastered and restored.
Falling Hare went into production under the title Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin. Walt Disney was developing a feature based on Roald Dahl’s novel The Gremlins, and asked other animation studios not to produce any films involving gremlins. However, Warner Bros. was too far into production on this cartoon and Russian Rhapsody to remove the references to gremlins, so Leon Schlesinger merely re-titled the cartoons as a compromise.[1]
Because of the cartoon’s public domain status, it can be found on budget compilations in lower quality prints, while Warner Home Video issued a restored print on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, with optional audio commentary by John Kricfalusi and Bill Melendez (Melendez was one of the animators on the cartoon). In 1989, it was included in the MGM/UA Home Video release Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons.
When the Southern Television broadcast interruption occurred in the United Kingdom, the interruption ended shortly before the start of this cartoon.[citation needed]
Elements from the short have been used in other Warner Bros works.
This cartoon had a scene where a 2-engine USAAF bomber was flown directly at a skyscraper in what looked to be a certain impact. Two years after its release, a USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber was inadvertently flown into the Empire State Building on a foggy day, and fifty-six years after that, the September 11 attacks occurred on a sunny day.
The climactic scene in Falling Hare is described in detail in the novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
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Preceded by A Corny Concerto (not explicitly billed a Bugs Bunny cartoon) | Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1943 | Succeeded by Little Red Riding Rabbit |