Rhapsody Rabbit
1946 animated short film by Friz Freleng / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rhapsody Rabbit is a 1946 American animated comedy short film in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Bugs Bunny.[1] The movie was originally released to theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 9, 1946.[2] This short is a follow-up of sorts to Freleng's 1941 Academy Award-nominated Rhapsody in Rivets, which featured the "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt. The "instrument" used to perform the "Hungarian Rhapsody" in Rhapsody in Rivets is a skyscraper under construction, while this short features Bugs playing the piece at a piano while being pestered by a mouse.
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Directed by | I. Freleng |
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Starring | Mel Blanc |
Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
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Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
Backgrounds by | Terry Lind |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Running time | 7:33 |
Language | English |
In 1946, film critic James Agee wrote in The Nation that the short is "the funniest thing I have seen since the decline of sociological dancing," saying, "The best of it goes two ways: one, very observant parody of concert-pianistic affectations, elegantly thought out and synchronized; the other, brutality keyed into the spirit of the music to reach greater subtlety than I have ever seen brutality reach before."[3]
Rhapsody Rabbit was the first cartoon to be broadcast on Cartoon Network when the channel launched on October 1, 1992.[4]