Hot Cross Bunny
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
At the Eureka Hospital Experimental Laboratory, Bugs is treated like a king- because he is experimental rabbit No. 46, and will soon have the brains of a chicken.
Characters
Bugs Bunny, French/German Doctor, Chicken
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Robert McKimson
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Warren Foster
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, French/German Doctor)
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Animation
- Animator
- Manny Gould, Charles McKimson, Phil DeLara
- Layouts
- Cornett Wood
- Animators, uncredited
- Anatolle Kirsanoff, Fred Abranz, Izzy Ellis, John Carey
Art Department
- Backgrounds
- Richard H. Thomas
Production notes
Lionel Barrymore is caricatured.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Pictures
Reviews
Hot Cross Bunny
Here's one McKimson Bugs cartoon that need not bow to any other director's effort. Hilarious; I also like the drama McKimson gets from Bugs trying to wow the doctors out in the audience--who continually glare motionlessly at him.
Hot Cross Bunny
For me, this is the one McKimson wabbit cartoon that needn't bow to any other director's effort with the character. Uproarious....I like the dramatic tension McKimson milks from Bugs' all-out efforts to entertain the doctors and the cutaways to their inanimate, unamused scowls. The German (French?) scientist is a riot, too.
Hot Cross Bunny
Some people have said that McKimson was a very poor director. But if you just look at cartoons like this one (as well as any Foghorn Leghorn or Sylvester Jr. cartoon or any of the Speedy Gonzales cartoons he made or the Tazmanian Devil cartoons) you would see that he was indeed NOT poor.