Here’s a new, Friday-morning feature from FREE WHITEWATER. It’s not specific to Whitewater, but I think that it will be enjoyable nonetheless. There are many funny, captivating public domain cartoons from America’s early animators. I thought that I might include a weekly clip to a cartoon or comic strip from one of them, to end the week.
This week’s clip is a 1945 Looney Tunes cartoon, Hare Conditioned, starring Bugs Bunny as a department store employee. I’ve seen it several times, and it holds up for me. (I’ve not had the pleasure of seeing cartoons like this in a movie theater, as Americans did when the cartoon was first released.) It’s directed by Chuck Jones, story by Tedd Pierce, with Mel Blanc providing the voice of Bugs. Quick Trivia: Tedd — who was both a writer and voice artist — added an extra ‘d’ to his name in response to a colleague who spelled his own name ‘Bil’ using only one ‘l.’
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYb9el12YZQ