Porky's Hare Hunt (1938)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Ben Hardaway

Writer:

Howard Baldwin (story)

Release Date:

30 April 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Porky goes after a rogue rabbit who manages to frustrate him at each turn. He is unsuccessful and the...

Plot Keywords:

Rabbit | Pig | Cartoon Rabbit | This Means War | Invisibility

Cast

Mel Blanc

...

Porky Pig / Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:G (Nova Scotia) | UK:U

Company:

Leon Schlesinger Studios

Trivia:

The first appearance of Happy Rabbit, the prototypical version of Bugs Bunny. He's barely recognizable compared to his more familiar later form. Bugs' first official appearance will come two years later.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Yankee Doodle

Cute cartoon starring an early hybrid of Bugs

The little white nameless rabbit with the bulbous black nose is considered by many as the very first version of what would later become Bugs Bunny. An early Porky goes rabbit hunting with his dog and is outwitted again and again by this "granddaddy" of Bugsy!!!

In June 2001, Cartoon Network ran an almost entire filmography of Mr. Bunny, beginning with Porky's Hare Hunt. The second cartoon in this "filmography" featured this same pinkish-white bunny with a big black nose in a haunted house with 2 dogs.

As the weekend marathon, known as "June Bugs" progressed from this 1938 cartoon to the very latest of Bugs' works, we saw the little pinkish white rabbit who was kind of daffy and hyper metamorphose into the wise cracking, brazen hare of Tex Avery and Robert Clampett fame, and then into an older, kinder, more mature Bugs that Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Robert McKimson preferred. As a lifelong fan of Bugs and the Looney Tunes, I could not ignore the need for this little cartoon to be mentioned.