A Corny Concerto
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros.[1][2] |
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Running time | 7:58 |
| Language | English |
A Corny Concerto is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Bob Clampett.[4] The short was released on September 25, 1943, and stars Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck.[5]
They perform a parody of Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon series and specifically his 1940 feature Fantasia.[6] The film uses two of Johann Strauss' best known waltzes, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube".
Plot
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's
The first of the two musical segments is set to Strauss' waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods. Porky Pig plays Elmer Fudd's usual role of hunter, accompanied by his unnamed hunting dog. Porky explains what he is doing via a sign reading, "I'm hunting that @!!*@ rabbit!!", which turns out to be Bugs Bunny. A series of visual gags ensue, culminating with all three characters believing that they have been shot by an angry squirrel who manages to get a hold of Porky's hunting rifle. After Porky and the dog realize that they are unharmed, they attempt to give first aid to the apparently fatally wounded Bugs while the dog bawls in tune with the music. When Porky finally pries Bugs' clenched hands off the supposed gunshot wound in his chest, Bugs is revealed to have a baby blue bra underneath. Emitting a scream of modesty, Bugs covers the bra with his left hand and slaps Porky’s face with his right hand three times and caps the bra cups over the bewildered hunters' heads and then, wearing a tutu and pointe shoes, gracefully dances off into the distance, falling over at the music's climax.
Fudd returns briefly to introduce the second segment, Strauss' The Blue Danube waltz. Young
Reception
Fantasia was marketed to
In 1994, A Corny Concerto was voted No. 47 of the
Home media
The short is available on disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set and also appears in the documentary Bugs Bunny: Superstar. It can also be found on The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 1 laserdisc, the Looney Tunes Collectors Edition: Musical Masterpieces VHS, and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2.
Since most of this cartoon has fallen into public domain (with the exception of the brief quotation of “The Music Goes Round and Round”), it has made frequent appearances on many gray-market VHS and DVD cartoon releases.
See also
- Pigs in a Polka: a 1943 cartoon slapstick to the works of Johannes Brahms
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
- List of Bugs Bunny cartoons
- List of Daffy Duck cartoons
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
References
- ^ a b c "A Corny Concerto (1943): Cast". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 27 August 2021.[dead link]
- ^ a b Ohmart, Ben (2012). "Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices". BearManor Media.
- ^ "Motion Picture Herald". Quigley Publishing Co. September 1943. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "THE BOOTLEG FILES: A CORNY CONCERTO". Film Threat. 2008-08-08. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
- ^ Goldmark (2002), p. 107-108
- ^ "The 50 Greatest Cartoons — As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals – Movie List". MUBI. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
External links
Quotations related to A Corny Concerto at Wikiquote
Media related to A Corny Concerto at Wikimedia Commons- A Corny Concerto at IMDb
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