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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 ...
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (/ ˈ f r iː l ə ŋ /; [6] August 21, 1905 [a] – May 26, 1995), [5] credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from the 1930s to the early 1960s.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Education for Death (1943), Clyde Geronimi; Hockey Homicide (1945), Jack Kinney; ... Knighty Knight Bugs (1958), Friz Freleng; Weasel While You Work (1958), Robert ...
As an animator for A Wild Hare (1940), generally regarded as the first appearance of Bugs Bunny, Ross had a first person view of the creation of the character. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cartoon Short Subject. [4] [1] In an interview, published in Animato magazine #19, Ross recalled how the character of Bugs Bunny came to ...
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie: November 20, 1981 (New York) November 25, 1981 (everywhere else) Knighty Knight Bugs: Warner Bros. Animation: Warner Bros. Pictures: 79 — A sequel to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie and the fifth animated film from Warner Bros. Pictures. The Secret of NIMH: July 1, 1982 (Edens Theatre, Chicago)