Baton Bunny (1959)
- Directed by
- Chuck Jones
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 7 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 40 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Bugs Bunny conducts an orchestra, but a fly keeps bothering him. He has to deal with the pesky fly while trying to perform the music.
sillylightheartedplayfulfast-pacedmildly frustratingwordlesscomedicmusical
What happens
Baton Bunny is a 1959 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow. The short was released on 10 January 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny. It shows Bugs conducting an orchestra – with a fly bothering him. Bugs conducts, and in part, plays the overture to "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und Abend in Wien" (A Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna)", a composition by Franz von Suppé. Although Mel Blanc was credited for vocal characterizations, there is no dialogue in the short; the only vocal effect made was when an audience member is heard coughing. This is the third and last Bugs Bunny cartoon (the first two being A Corny Concerto and Rhapsody Rabbit) where Bugs is mostly silent; at one point, he 'shushes' the brass. This is also one of the last cartoons to get a Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon reissue in 1968. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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