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Knighty Knight Bugs is the fifth Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes entry to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1959. In doing so, it beat out cartoons Walt Disney Studios' Paul Bunyan and Terrytoons' Sidney's Family Tree. [4] It was the third Oscar-nominated Bugs Bunny cartoon, after A Wild Hare in 1941 [5] and Hiawatha's Rabbit ...
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame is a 1991 feature film compilation of 15 classic animated short subjects from the Warner Bros. studio. The line-up of cartoons included in this anthology were A Wild Hare (1940), Birdy and the Beast (1944), Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Feed the Kitty (1952), One Froggy Evening (1955), Duck Amuck (1953), Another Froggy Evening (1995 ...
Knight-mare Hare is a 1955 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. [1] The short was released on October 1, 1955, and stars Bugs Bunny . [ 2 ]
Roman Legion-Hare is a 1955 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Friz Freleng. [1] The short was released on November 12, 1955, and stars Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. [2] The title is a play on the words Roman Legionnaire. After being ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to be tossed to the lions, Yosemite Sam tries to ...
The other 20 still keep their both their technical credits and (with the exceptions of Hot Cross Bunny, Knights Must Fall, Rabbit Hood & Homeless Hare) the Bugs Bunny in card as well. However, following the shutdown of the original studio, several Bugs Bunny cartoons were reissued in the 1964–69 season due to providing a high box office value ...
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The animated comedy film starts with a showing of the 1958 Academy Award-winning [2] Warner Bros cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs before going into its film opening credits. This is followed up by Bugs Bunny narrating how cartoons like Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies immediately replaced baggy-pants comedy, as well as showing cartoons featuring Sylvester, before he introduces us to "a warm-hearted ...
He was also able to accept the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1958 for the Bugs Bunny cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs. Burton left Warner Bros. in 1961 to become an executive at Pacific Title & Art Studio which Schlesinger founded. [2] He was replaced by David H. DePatie. Burton died June 1, 1978, at age 71 in Los Angeles.