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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted July 27, 2015 09:31 AM

Today (27 July 2015) marks Bugs Bunny's official 75th birthday. It's the day "A Wild Hare" was released.
However, there were three earlier cartoons which featured an embryo "Bugs". "Porky's Hare Hunt" (1939). "Hare-um Scare-um" (1939). And, "Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940).
But "A Wild Hare" is Tex Avery's version which evolved into the Bugs we all know and love.

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted July 27, 2015 01:26 PM

Happy birthday Bugs!

Wish I had one or two more or these brilliant Tex Avery cartoons.
They're all brilliant.

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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted July 27, 2015 01:46 PM

He is my personal favorite cartoon character for at least 45 years now.

I was confined to Disneyworld for a couple of days about 5 years ago. I found out that Mickey Mouse gets a parade worthy of Stalin every 15 minutes about 15 hours per day. (Imagine working there?!)

I said "Who does he think he is? -Bugs Bunny?!"

"Of course you realize: this means WAR!"

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Brian Fretwell
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posted July 27, 2015 03:48 PM

The earliest I have is a B&W silent standard 8 print of Elmer's Pet Rabbit.

Still here's to the next 25 years to his centenary. In updated words from the book issued for the 50th anniversary "75 Years and only one Gray Hare"

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted July 27, 2015 04:04 PM

I have:

14 Carrot Rabbit
Ballot Box Bunny
Box Office Bunny ('scope)
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Buccanneer Bunny
Corny Concerto
Foxy by Proxy
Knightly Night Bugs
Rabbit Fire
Sahara Hare
Wabbit Twouble
What's Opera Doc?

My collection has a disproportionate amount of Yosemite Sam. I really wish I had more Fudd to make things right!

I have some of the classics, but there are a more like Hare Brush ("I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.") that I'd love to have.

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Joe Vannicola
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From: Lincoln, DE, USA
Registered: Feb 2014

posted July 27, 2015 09:59 PM

A few years ago at Cinefest,Omer Wayne was selling a Tech print of Hair Brush but another collector beat me to it. The upside was that I had gotten so many other films I've always wanted for my collection that losing one cartoon wasn't any big deal.

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Steve Carter
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From: Bristol, UK
Registered: Apr 2015

posted July 28, 2015 05:40 AM

One of my favorites is 'Shishkabugs' with the Charles Laughton character playing the King and demanding 'Hassenpfeffer' from the cook Yosemite Sam. I remember this being shown I think, I may be wrong, on the same bill as Brando's 'Mutiny on the Bounty'...

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Gary Crawford
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From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted July 28, 2015 06:48 AM

Was just listening to some Abbott and Costello radio shows and during one season Mel Blanc did some bits on every show as Bugs Bunny....even using the name. Every so often Lou would comment that Mel got more laughs with one line than Lou did with a bunch. But Lou Costello told people more than once that Blanc was one of the great comic talents he'd ever known.

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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted July 28, 2015 08:42 AM

Jack Benny once said "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc.".

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Michael Mc Dermott
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From: Goshen, NY, USA
Registered: Jul 2013

posted July 28, 2015 10:01 AM

To me all the Bugs cartoons are super, but I have to say my all time favorite has to be BIG HOUSE BUNNY. A little violent in some ways by todays standard but oh so very funny. I picked up a 16mm black and white print back in the mid sixties from Home Movie Wonderland, It's a TV print. Still laugh every time I screen it. Good friend Ray Faiola has a beautiful Tech of it ( that lucky guy)and its even better in Tech, of course.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted July 28, 2015 02:13 PM

Bug's, (like many of the Warner's cartoon characters), has that wonderful quality of having a distinct character. When a Bug's cartoons starts, all you do is "load" for bad guy, and you can almost ascertain how Bug's is going to react to that character, the same is true for Daffy and the other characters.

You can see Bug's "thinking" in many a cartoon, and this is due to the brilliant Directors of these cartoons, Freleng, Jones, Clampett, McKimson, Davis, Tashlin ... ect ect.

Blanc, of course, added much to the character with his magnificent voice work!

Yep, I LOVE warners cartoons and am quite lucky to have a nearly all LPP or Agfa print collection of most of their best (but don't ask me to list them all, Ehhh, (munch munch) I just have the time, doc!)

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