A Wild Hare

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A Wild Hare is a 1940 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short widely recognized as the first official appearance of Bugs Bunny in his classic form and personality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Merrie Melodies cartoon
animated short film
animationStudio Warner Bros. Animation
surface form: Warner Bros. Cartoons
associatedFranchise Bugs Bunny filmography
Elmer Fudd filmography
backgroundArtist John Didrik Johnsen
basedOn earlier prototype rabbit cartoons at Warner Bros.
catchphraseOrigin Bugs Bunny’s line "What’s up, Doc?"
colorProcess Technicolor
copyrightHolder Warner Bros. Entertainment
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Tex Avery
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
era Golden Age of American animation
featuresCharacter Bugs Bunny
Elmer Fudd
franchiseDebutOf Bugs Bunny in his definitive design and personality
genre animated comedy
slapstick comedy
hasAntagonist Elmer Fudd
hasFilmFormat theatrical short
hasSpeciesOfMainCharacter anthropomorphic rabbit
historicalSignificance helped define Bugs Bunny’s personality for subsequent cartoons
layoutArtist Cornett Wood
musicBy Carl W. Stalling
notableFor first official appearance of Bugs Bunny in his classic form
first pairing of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in their classic personas
originalLanguage English
partOfFranchise Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
plotSummary Elmer Fudd hunts rabbits and encounters Bugs Bunny, who outwits him repeatedly.
producer Leon Schlesinger
productionCompany Leon Schlesinger Productions
releaseDate 1940-07-27
releaseYear 1940
runningTimeMinutes 8
series Merrie Melodies
setting forest
studio Warner Bros. Animation
surface form: Warner Bros. Cartoons
title A Wild Hare self-link
usesHumorStyle slapstick
verbal wit
visual gags
voiceActor Mel Blanc
voicesCharacter Bugs Bunny
surface form: Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny

Mel Blanc as Elmer Fudd
writer Rich Hogan

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