Elmer's Candid Camera
- Studio
- Leon Schlesinger Studios
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Elmer heads into the woods to photograph wildlife. In no time, he encounters a wise-guy rabbit who makes things harder than Elmer's book explained that it would be. The rabbit torments him endlessly, eventually driving the amateur photographer completely insane. The film ends with Elmer raving hysterically, "WABBITS! WILDLIFE! WABBITS!..."
Characters
Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny (Prototype)
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones (as Charles M. Jones)
Producing
- Producer
- Leon Schlesinger
Writing
- Writer
- Rich Hoga
Voices
- Voice
- Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd), Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny [Prototype])
Music
- Music
- Carl W. Stalling
Animation
- Animator
- Robert McKimson (as Bob McKimson)
- Layout Artist, uncredited
- John McGrew
- Animators, uncredited
- Robert Cannon, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe
Art Department
- Background Artist, uncredited
- Paul Julian
- Background Designer, uncredited
- Charles Thorson
Production notes
The first official appearance of Elmer Fudd in his familiar character, although the name "Elmer Fudd" had been applied to the Egghead character in "A Feud There Was" (1938).
This short contains an early prototype of the Bugs Bunny character. Though the voice and some facial coloring is different from the character whom we all know as Bugs Bunny, the antics are pure Bugs Bunny.
This short contains an early prototype of the Bugs Bunny character. Though the voice and some facial coloring is different from the character whom we all know as Bugs Bunny, the antics are pure Bugs Bunny.
Pictures
Reviews
the real reason elmer hates wabbits!
For those people that need to know exactly why Elmer Fudd hates and hunts wabbits
most of the time. Watch this cartoon and
you will know the reason.
In my opinion this cartoon is the perfect
start to what would be a great rivary between
Bugs and Elmer.
Elmer's Candid Camera
It had happened. Egghead had been redesigned and rechristened as a new character. His Joe Penner-like voice replaced with a child-like slur and a quiet demeanor (thanks in part to Arthur Q. Bryan).
Many of Elmer's key personality traits were established here. Besides the changing l's and r's to w's speech impediment, he had that simple mind along with a "on the verge of a nervous breakdown" angst. Like Chuck Jones has said in interviews, he always sounds like he's about to cry. Alanis Morrissette (yes, I'm quoting her, SO WHAT?!) once said that angst is the feeling that the world isn't, let's say, cooperating with you and worse yet you don't know what you can do about it.
That right there sums Elmer up in this cartoon. In this case though, the one who's not cooperating is a daffy rabbit who will soon become Bugs Bunny. Elmer's just trying to take some photographs of animals but this wabbit keeps sabotaging his work seemingly just for the fun of sabotage. Not knowing why he's being singled out and picked on, he has a nervous breakdown and nearly drowns in a nearby lake.
Elmer Fudd would go on to have many comedic nervous breakdowns. And the world of toons thanks him for it.
Elmer's Candid Camera
Elmer is trying to photographic wildlife, and picks rabbit as his unwilling subject. The rabbit latter dives into the water to save a drowning Elmer, then throws him right back in!