Underplayed Gems

All This and Rabbit Stew (1941)

All This and Rabbit Stew poster
Directed by
Tex Avery
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 28 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Bugs Bunny outsmarts a hunter who tries to catch him for a stew. The cartoon is a classic chase with lots of gags.

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What happens

All This and Rabbit Stew is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon was released on September 13, 1941, and features Bugs Bunny. Because of the cartoon's racial stereotypes of African-Americans, United Artists decided to withhold it from television syndication in the United States beginning in 1968. As such, the short was placed into the so-called Censored Eleven, a group of eleven Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts withheld from U.S. television distribution. It was one of 12 cartoons to be pulled from Cartoon Network's 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, on grounds of the subject material's offensiveness. No voice actors were credited on screen, but those who participated were Mel Blanc and Darrell Payne. The cartoon entered the public domain in 1969, as United Artists, the distributor of the cartoon, chose not to renew the copyright in time. However, the character of Bugs remains under copyright until 2036. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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