Baton Bunny
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Baton Bunny is a 1959 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow.[1] The short was released on 10 January 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny.[2]
Baton Bunny | |
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Directed by | Chuck Jones Abe Levitow |
Story by | Michael Maltese |
Produced by | John Burton Sr. |
Starring | Mel Blanc |
Edited by | Treg Brown |
Music by | Milt Franklyn |
Animation by | Ken Harris Richard Thompson Ben Washam |
Layouts by | Maurice Noble |
Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date | 10 January 1959 20 April 1968 (Blue Ribbon re-release) |
Running time | 7 minutes |
It shows Bugs conducting an orchestra – with a fly bothering him. Bugs conducts, and in part, plays the overture to "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und Abend in Wien" (A Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna)", a composition by Franz von Suppé. Though Mel Blanc was credited for vocal characterizations, there is no dialogue in the short; the only vocal effect made was when an audience member is heard coughing. This is the third and last Bugs Bunny cartoon (the first two being A Corny Concerto and Rhapsody Rabbit, although he says three lines in the latter) where Bugs is silent. Or, nearly silent; at one point, he 'shushes' the brass. This is also one of the last cartoons to get a Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon reissue in 1968.