KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

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Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . and probably Bugs Bunny is no exception. The offish lout of a deep-voiced rabbit starring in ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA sports hideous, beaver-sized buck teeth and an overly Ginormous bushy white tail. As this gray rabbit torments Nature lover Elmer Fudd throughout this Warner Bros. animated short, he comes off as being more of a mean-spirited mischief maker than the suave hero of his later years. Elmer does not threaten the bunny with a firearm at any point here. To the contrary, it's this Bugs Bunny prototype who's consistently the aggressor, whether burying Elmer under a Treeful of apples with the recoil of Elmer's own telephoto lens, or booting the hapless rookie photographer into a pond to close out this sad tale. (Beta-bunny's maniacal cackling after this final humiliation is more consistent with a rude Heckle and Jeckle cartoon outing than something you'd expect from Bugs.) Speaking of Jekylls, this Warner sketch hare certainly has a lot more in common with the sadistic Mr. Hyde than an idealistic Dr. Jekyll.

slymusic Directed by Chuck Jones and animated by Bob McKimson (who later became a director himself), "Elmer's Candid Camera" is a good Warner Bros. cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in their earliest stages, certainly not as we know them today. In this film, Elmer wishes to photograph wildlife and Bugs gets in the way. As usual.Here are my favorite segments from "Elmer's Candid Camera". When Elmer prepares to take a picture of the sleeping Bugs, a bird chirps noisily and Elmer shushes it, after which Bugs momentarily awakens to shush the bird himself; then, when Bugs walks out of camera range and chats with Elmer, Elmer suddenly grabs Bugs by the neck, and Bugs mistakes Elmer's action for a romantic advance. Later on, Bugs grabs the accordion part of Elmer's camera and pops him in the face, causing the hapless Elmer to fly backward into an apple tree. In addition, I have the utmost praise for composer/orchestrator Carl W. Stalling, whose music score throughout this cartoon is a gem; as an example, the opening credits & first scene are complemented by the popular song "What's New?"."Elmer's Candid Camera" is a nice cartoon, but it doesn't seem to go anywhere, and Elmer turns into a lunatic near the end of it. Fortunately, "A Wild Hare" would be released that same year (1940), finally solidifying the physical appearances and personalities of this famous wabbit/hunter duo.

tavm This early cartoon directed by Charles M. Jones (better known as Chuck Jones) features the first appearance of the short's title character with the voice and facial features though he's a little heavier here and still has traces of his predecessor, Egghead. His nemesis is a rabbit who looks a little like Bugs Bunny except his face is pink and he sounds more like Goofy with a laugh like Woody Woodpeckeer (no surprise since Mel Blanc also did that bird during this time). Elmer's trying to take wildlife pictures but keeps getting pranked on by the rabbit. A pretty amusing dry run for the hunting pictures started by Tex Avery's A Wild Hare, this cartoon should be seen at least for historical value. It's on disc 3 of The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1.

kydar The Elmer character is different from the one we are more familiar with from the toons of the late 40's and 50's. The rabbit character is a prototype of Bugs Bunny. Interestingly, the rabbit has a laugh similar to Woody Woodpecker's at one point.