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The Old Grey Hare
''The Old Grey Hare'' is a 1944 ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on October 28, 1944, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Title The title is a double play on words. One is the typical pun between "hare" and "hair", with the bunny (who was already grey-haired) rendered "old and grey" for this cartoon. The title also refers to the old song, " The Old Gray Mare". Some of the lobby cards for this cartoon gave the alternate spelling, ''The Old Gray Hare''. Plot The cartoon starts with Elmer Fudd sitting under a tree, crying over his failure to catch Bugs. The "voice of God" tells Elmer to keep trying to catch him. Elmer wonders how long it will take and is shown exactly ''how'' long by being transported "far into the future" past the years 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, until reaching the then-distant year of A.D. 2000, after the sound of the gong. This offers the chance to use some contemporary gags with a futuristic twist, as Elmer fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer. He was best known for his work on the '' Looney Tunes'' animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows ''Time for Beany'' and ''Beany and Cecil''. He was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in life, showed an interest in animation and puppetry. After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, he joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies''. Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937. During his 15 years at the studio, he directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic, and designed some of the studio's most famous characters, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Tweety. Among his most acclaimed films are ''Porky in Wackyland'' (1938) and ''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery'' (1946). He left Warner Bros. Cartoons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionne Quintuplets
The Dionne quintuplets (; born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood. The Dionne girls were premature. After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross who paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario government stepped in and passed the ''Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935'' which made them wards of the Crown until the age of 18. The Ontario provincial government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction. The identical quintuplet girls were, in order of birth: # Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne (died 2001) # Annette Lillianne Marie Allard (living) # Cécile Marie Émilda Langlois (living) # Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne (died 1954) # Marie Reine Alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
''Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection'' is a Blu-ray Disc box-set released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on December 1, 2020. It contains 60 Bugs Bunny shorts and numerous bonus features and supplementary content. The set's packaging includes a slip book, a booklet, and a collectible Bugs Bunny Funko! POP doll. Initially conceived by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as a single-disc Blu-ray Disc version of ''The Essential Bugs Bunny'' DVD set with an additional Funko! doll, animation historian Jerry Beck convinced the department heads to extend the set to three discs and include cartoons not previously released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc in order to appeal to adult collectors. The set includes 32 newly restored and remastered cartoons that were previously unavailable on the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' DVD and ''Looney Tunes Platinum Collection'' Blu-ray Disc sets, in addition to 20 "essential" shorts ported over from those previous collections. Eight cart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volume 1
Volume One, Volume 1, Volume I or Vol. 1 may refer to: Albums * ''Volume One'' (The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band album), 1966 * ''Volume One'' (Sleep album) * ''Volume One'' (Fluff album) * ''Volume One'' (She & Him album), 2008 * ''Volume One'' (Two Steps from Hell album), 2006 *'' The Honeydrippers: Volume One'', 1984 * ''Vol. I'' (Dead Combo album) * ''Vol. 1'' (Birds of Maya album), 2008 * ''Vol. 1'' (EP), by Breed 77 * ''Vol. 1'' (Hurt album), 2006 * ''Vol. 1'' (Nekropolis album), 2003 * ''Vol. 1'' (The Tempers album), 2010 * ''Vol. 1'' (We Are The Becoming album), 2008 * ''Vol. 1'' (BROS_album), 2016 * ''Vol. 1'' (Goatsnake album), 1999 * ''Volume 1'' (Reagan Youth album) * ''Volume 1'' (CKY album) * ''Volume I'' (Queensberry album), 2008 * ''Volume 1'' (Fabrizio De André album), 1967 * ''Volume 1'' (Billy Bragg album), 2006 * ''Volume 1'' (The Besnard Lakes album), 2003 * ''Volume 1'' (BNQT album), 2017 * ''Volume 1'' (Future Boy album) *''Volume 1'', a video albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volume 5
Volume Five, Volume 5, Volume V can represent: * '' Volume 5: Anatomic'' * ''Volume Five'', an album published by ''Volume'' magazine *Jock Jams, Volume 5 * Volume 5: Poetry for the Masses (SeaShedShitheadByTheSheSore) The Desert Sessions *On Broadway Volume 5 ''On Broadway Volume 5'' is an album by Paul Motian and the Trio 2000 + Two released on the German Winter & Winter label in 2009. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Artists Productions
Associated Artists Productions, Inc. (a.a.p.) later known as United Artists Associated was an American distributor of theatrical feature films and subjects for television. Associated Artists Productions was the copyright owner of the ''Popeye'' shorts by Paramount Pictures, and the pre-1948 color ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of shorts produced by Warner Bros. History Associated Artists Associated Artists was founded in 1948 by Eliot Hyman. It handled syndication of around 500 films, including the Republic Pictures and Robert L. Lippert libraries, but both companies soon entered television distribution. It also handled syndication for Monogram Pictures and Producers Releasing Corporation. In 1951, Hyman sold the company to David Baird's Lansing Foundation, which in turn sold it to the startup company Motion Pictures for Television (MPTV), where Hyman served as a consultant. Hyman also became a partner in Mouline Productions, the producers of ''Moby Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bugs Bunny Superstar
''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' is a 1975 ''Looney Tunes'' documentary film narrated by Orson Welles and produced and directed by Larry Jackson. It was the first documentary to examine the history of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. Synopsis The film includes nine ''Looney Tunes''/''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons (six featuring Bugs Bunny) which were previously released during the 1940s: * ''What's Cookin' Doc?'' (1944), directed by Bob Clampett * '' The Wild Hare'' (a.k.a. ''A Wild Hare'') (1940), directed by Tex Avery * ''A Corny Concerto'' (1943), directed by Clampett * ''I Taw a Putty Tat'' (1948), directed by Friz Freleng * ''Rhapsody Rabbit'' (1946), directed by Freleng * ''Walky Talky Hawky'' (1946), directed by Robert McKimson * ''My Favorite Duck'' (1942), directed by Chuck Jones * '' Hair-Raising Hare'' (1946), directed by Jones * ''The Old Grey Hare'' (1944), directed by Clampett Interviews ''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' includes interviews with some legendary Warner Bros. animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volume 4
Volume Four, Volume 4, or Volume IV may refer to: Music *'' Lucio Battisti Vol. 4'', Lucio Battisti's fourth album, released in 1971 * ''Vol. 4'' (Black Sabbath album), Black Sabbath's fourth studio album, released in 1972 * ''Volume Four'', a 1992 album published by Volume magazine * ''Volume 4'' (Joe Jackson album), a Joe Jackson album released in 2003 *''Vol. 4'', an album by Lullacry released in 2005 *'' Volume IV: The Lions of Love'', a 2007 album by Two-Minute Miracles * ''All Hope is Gone'' (Slipknot album), Slipknot's fourth studio album, commonly referred to as 'Vol. 4' before its release in 2008 *'' Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate'', Puddle of Mudd's fourth album, 2009 *''Volume IV (September Mourning album)'', an upcoming album by heavy metal band September Mourning *''Volume IV The Classic Singles 88–93 ''Volume IV The Classic Singles 88–93'' is the first compilation album by British group Soul II Soul, released in 1993. Along with the band's biggest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes
''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes'' is a collection of LaserDiscs released by MGM/UA Home Video in the 1990s. There were five sets made, featuring a number of discs, and each disc side represented a different theme, being made up of seven cartoons per side. The first volume was also released on VHS, with each tape representing one disc side. Like many other ''Looney Tunes'' home video releases by MGM/UA Home Video, Volumes 1-4 used faded 35 mm Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) television prints as MGM/UA and Turner Entertainment, owners of the rights to the shorts, at the time had no access to Warner Bros.' negatives. Unlike many other ''Looney Tunes'' home video releases by MGM/UA Home Video, most of the a.a.p. logos were cut from the releases. As Volume 5 was released in 1997, however, newer "remasters" were used that Turner Entertainment had created in 1995, infamously known as Turner "dubbed versions", to make the shorts look more presentable for television and home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Ford
Greg Ford is an animator, director, historian and consultant to Warner Bros. Animation. He is perhaps best known for directing the films ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'', ''Weezer Slander: The Movie'', and '' (Blooper) Bunny''. Biography During the 1960s and 1970s, he interviewed many of the key people responsible for Warner Bros.' success during The Golden Age of American animation (including Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng), and was given "special thanks" for working on the documentary film '' Bugs Bunny: Superstar'', before officially joining the staff at Warner Bros. Animation in 1985. Beck, Jerry. ''The Animated Movie Guide'' (2005). Chicago, Chicago Review Press. He teamed with director Terry Lennon on several theatrical shorts, television specials, and documentaries. In 1988, he and Terry Lennon directed the well-received compilation film ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''. Exploring the vaults of the WB studio, Ford discovered master tapes of the Milt Franklyn and Carl Stall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gildersleeve
''The Great Gildersleeve'' is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy ''Fibber McGee and Molly''. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode (number 216) of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character, Dr. Gildersleeve, on earlier episodes. ''The Great Gildersleeve'' enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. In ''Fibber McGee and Molly'', Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag and antagonist of Fibber McGee. "You're a ''haa-aa-aa-aard'' man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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