#ben hardaway

[artoflooneytunes]

Model sheet for Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).

[acmeoop]

Here I Am Fat Boy! “Porky’s Hare Hunt” (1938)

[mikyapixie]

ᕼᗩᑭᑭY ᑎᗩTIOᑎᗩᒪ ᗷᑌGS ᗷᑌᑎᑎY ᗪᗩY!!

[thinkbolt]

Porky's Hare Hunt (WB, 1938) ft. 1st appearance Bugs Bunny - dir. Ben "Bugs" Hardaway

"I'm gonna put a rabbit suit on that duck," he said.

Buy me a coffee!

[animatejournal]

Hare-um Scare-um | Directors: Ben Hardaway & Cal Dalton Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1939

[dailylooneys]

Happy 123rd Birthday Ben “Bugs” Hardaway (1895 - 1957)

The guy who gave his nickname to Bugs Bunny, directed two cartoons (along with Cal Dalton) with the prototype Bugs (or Happy Rabbit) and Chuck Jones directed a couple of more as well (though, like many of his shorts during that period, they were quite Disney-equse). Ben, along with Cal Dalton, were given a directional position after Friz Freleng left Warners to MGM for a short while (due to their lavish budgets and salary), and Ben decided to “put a rabbit suit on Daffy Duck”. 

After he left Warners, due to Freleng’s return, he went to Walter Lantz and created Woody Woodpecker. 

[artoflooneytunes]

Production drawing for studio gag reel (1939).

[artoflooneytunes]

Production drawing for studio gag reel (1939).