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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 ...
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.
As Sam's scheme unravels, the king is subjected to comedic mishaps, culminating in Sam's arrest and imprisonment. Bugs assumes the role of royal chef, presenting a giant carrot disguised as hasenpfeffer, amusingly tricking the king. This narrative concludes with Bugs' playful commentary on the triumph of wit over royalty.
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 ...
High Diving Hare is a 1948-produced Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. [1] Released to theaters on April 30, 1949, [2] the short is an expansion of a gag from Stage Door Cartoon, which was also directed by Friz Freleng, and co-stars Elmer Fudd.
Rabbit Hood is the origin of the infamous "knighting" exchange, where Bugs Bunny is dressed up like a king, and proceeds to pound the Sheriff's head with his sceptre while dispensing an oddball title with each strike: Sheriff: bows Bugs: "In the name of my most Royal Majesty, I knight thee: (strikes Sheriff over the head with his sceptre) Arise!
Paul Bunyan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short of 1958, losing to the Looney Tunes cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs, [2] starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. DTV sets clips of the short to Annette Funicello's Tall Paul and is featured in an episode of Sing Me a Story with Belle.
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie: November 20, 1981 Knighty Knight Bugs; Hare Trimmed; Roman Legion-Hare; Sahara Hare; Wild and Woolly Hare; The Unmentionables; Golden Yeggs; Catty Cornered; Three Little Bops; Birds Anonymous; High Diving Hare; Show Biz Bugs; With clips from: A Pizza Tweety Pie; Little Red Rodent Hood; Speedy Gonzales ...