Tortoise Beats Hare
- Studio
- Leon Schlesinger Studios
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Bugs puts up $10 that he can win a race with Cecil Turtle, but he is unaware that Cecil has many lookalike relatives to help him win. When the turtle, accepts Bugs thinks that it's hilarious. Cecil has one of his kin spaced just ahead of Bugs all the way- and one at the finish line when Bugs gets there. Bugs pays off, asking, "Could I have been tricked?" Cecil replies, "It's a possibility."
Characters
Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Chester Turtle, Other Turtles
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Tex Avery
Producing
- Producer
- Leon Schlesinger
Writing
- Writer
- Dave Monahan
- Original Story, "The Tortoise and the Hare" By
- Aesop uncredited
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Chester Turtle, Other Turtles)
Music
- Music
- Carl W. Stalling
Animation
- Animator
- Charles McKimson
- Animators, uncredited
- Robert McKimson, Virgil Ross, Rod Scribner, Sid Sutherland
Art Department
- Character Designer
- Robert Givens (uncredited)
- Background Artist
- John Didrik Johnsen
Editing
- Editor
- Treg Brown (uncredited)
Production notes
The first of three in the series. Bugs ambles into the credits, and as he reads them out loud, he gets upset and tears them down in anger. Some footage was reused in the intro of "Tortoise Wins By A Hare."
The first appearance of Cecil Turtle.
The first appearance of Cecil Turtle.
