Bugs Bunny Rabbit Seasoning 1952

[Mike Newell]

Can anyone advise who released this on super 8? It’s not Techno. I suspect either Derann or Classic.

My money is on Classic but could be import.



It’s Rabbit Season with Bugs, Daffy and Elmer Fudd. They do an version of Abbott & Costello.

[Osi Osgood]

This is an interesting cartoon on super 8, as two different companies released this. The more common one is the one that Mike has, I have as well as most collectors, and thankfully, it's on LPP, and sadly, it's rather dupey and looks like it's from a 16mm origination print but there is another print of this, no doubt released on Super 8 by some other company, I have it as well, and that one is low fade as well, but it doesn't have that dupey look and the colors are much more accurate. This is one of the few classic era cartoons that I actually have on it's original 35mm!

[Mike Newell]

Yes, it starts off a bit grainy but improves as it goes along. I think if it had been Derann on LPP it would have been better. Still very funny. Chuck Jones is down as director so more violent and surreal than usual. US import do you reckon?

[Brian Fretwell]

My copy which I bought second hand in a plain box is not on LPP (no edge marking that I can see) and is now sadly rather pink!

[Mike Newell]

Hi Brian

i was about to say my copy was the same as I bought 3 bugs bunny blind and each of them were not the usual Techno suspects but titles I had not heard of plus each had retained their colour. Gorilla My Dreams was one of them.

Success, I have found the original box for Rabbit Seasoning. Cinema 8 PO Box 245 Grace Station New York New York. Any information of who they were . I vaguely remember their name from film magazines.

[Steve Klare]

I have the very similar Rabbit Fire (1951)and it's a Red Fox Films release.

Bugs Bunny is my absolute favorite cartoon character from the time I was a little kid, and I doubt that will ever change. I was in Disneyworld about 10 years ago and Mickey Mouse got a parade roughly every 15 minutes. About the 4th time around, I said "Who does Mickey think he is? -Bugs Bunny?!".

[Mike Newell]

Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam are the best

Canterbury Films issued some Bugs Bunny cartoons. Corny Concerto and Bugs Bunny War Bond rally come to mind. They operated out of New York so wonder is there a connection with them.

[Steve Klare]

Yosemite Sam is an interesting character: audiences started to feel sorry for Elmer Fudd because he was just so utterly pathetic he made Bugs seem like a bully, so they went back to the old drawing board (literally...) and came up with a new villain that was just so ornery that the audiences would stay on Bug's side in a conflict.

Sam has a quite a range as an actor: Pie-Rate, Island Castaway ("I HATES coconuts!"), The Black Knight, Ay-Rab Sam, Mayoral Candidate, Chilacoot Sam (The roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest claim-jumper that ever jumped a claim!) and many others.

For the most part, Elmer was a hunter who could fire about 30 shots per cartoon and miss Bugs every time! (He DID shoot Daffy quite a few times!).

-although Elmer was musically talented enough to appear in that Opera.

"Kill the Wabbit!"

(NOTE: He WAS a millionaire. He owned a mansion and a yacht!)

[Mike Newell]

After Sam the Tasmanian Devil. Here’s a question did Sam and the Devil ever star in a cartoon?

[Osi Osgood]

Friz Freleng got tired of Elmer fairly quickly and Sam was the result, though "Red Hot Rider" was precursor to Sam, but Friz as well as so many other recognize that Sam is the short tempered Friz in cartoon form. My favorite Sam cartoon is "From Hare to Heir" where everytime Sam blows his top, he blows some dough, so naturally Sam cusses his way out of his fortune by the cartoons end. That specific cartoon did make it onto super 8, but I have only heard of a super 8 silent edition of the cartoon, sadly

[David Monard Ice]

you are so fortunate to have a 35 mm print of this! I’m assuming it’s one of the original IB tech prints.

My understanding was that Warner only struck about 25 prints of these cartoons back in the day before all these multi Plex cinemas and 1800 print release saturations. I print would just circulate amongst the theaters showing Warner product. And they didn’t even strike 100 prints!!

This is an interesting cartoon on super 8, as two different companies released this. The more common one is the one that Mike has, I have as well as most collectors, and thankfully, it's on LPP, and sadly, it's rather dupey and looks like it's from a 16mm origination print but there is another print of this, no doubt released on Super 8 by some other company, I have it as well, and that one is low fade as well, but it doesn't have that dupey look and the colors are much more accurate. This is one of the few classic era cartoons that I actually have on it's original 35mm!

[Brian Fretwell]

25 prints, that sounds strange as IB Technicolor was more economic the more prints you had struck after the printing matrices were made, after all they did have world-wide circulation. 25 domestic prints maybe?

[Osi Osgood]

It's not a reprint, unless they did IB reprints. It's the kind of 35mm that has the square image surrounded by "grey" in between each frame, so, if they reprinted in the future, it would not have this quality. I could look at individual frames however.