#fred avery

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A Wild Hare (1940)

The first true Bugs Bunny cartoon.

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Merry Melodies: A Day at the Zoo

Fred Avery USA, 1939

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How to draw this classic scene from the Tex Avery-directed Looney Tunes short “The Heckling Hare”! (source)

You know... like THIS:

Obviously we need cartoons to look more like this, not merely the overdone “rubber hose” style. Why imitate most artists that era of cartoons rather than “the Golden Age of Hollywood”; huh?

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Watched in August 2017

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Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)

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Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

(long post)

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Cartoon: I Wanna Be a Sailor, 1937

I Wanna Be a Sailor is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon film directed by Tex Avery. The short was released on September 25, 1937. This cartoon is one of a handful of pre-1943 shorts to enter the public domain in the United States because United Artists, the owners of the short at the time, failed to renew the copyrights in time, though they had planned to do so. It is the oldest color…

Cartoon: I Wanna Be a Sailor, 1937