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Half-Fare Hare
''Half-Fare Hare'' is a 1956 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on August 18, 1956, and stars Bugs Bunny. Plot Bugs Bunny boards the Chattanooga Choo Choo and finds two hoboes who look and act like Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, from ''The Honeymooners'' TV show, who want to eat Bugs after being hungry for days. Summary It was a snowy winter day, and a newspaper landed near a train station and at the same time, Bugs Bunny arrives and looks at the newspaper, saying that a local carrot crop freeze. And despite, that he doesn't have a drove, Bugs decided to hop on a train to Chattanooga and shouts, "C'mon, Chattanooga Choo-Choo!" In a choo-choo train, two men named Ralph and Ed are in one of the cars. Music The cartoon features the song Carolina in the Morning, rather than the more obvious choice Chattanooga Choo Choo; ''Carolina in the Morning''s faster melodic rhythm and emphatic downbeats complement the timing of the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McKimson
Robert Porter McKimson Sr. (October 13, 1910 – September 29, 1977) was an American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on the ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons from Warner Bros. Cartoons and later DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. He wrote and directed many animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Hippety Hopper, and The Tasmanian Devil, among other characters. He was also well known for defining Bugs Bunny's look in the 1943 short ''Tortoise Wins by a Hare''. Career Born in Denver, Colorado, McKimson spent ten years gaining an art education at the Lukits School of Art. The McKimson family moved to California in 1926 and he then worked for Walt Disney as an assistant animator to Dick Lundy, stayed with Disney's studio for a year and then joined the Romer Grey Studio located in Altadena, California, in 1930, a would-be animation shop started by the son of Western author Zane Grey, and finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |