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Bugs Bunny - Any Bonds Today?
About this film
The 90-second cartoon, commissioned by the Treasury and now in the public domain , was designed to encourage movie theater audiences to buy defense bonds and stamps. Its title card identifies it as Leon Schlesinger Presents Bugs Bunny , [ 1 ] but it is more widely known as Any Bonds Today? It was neither considered a Looney Tunes nor Merrie Melodies cartoon and was not part of the Bugs Bunny series (but a spin-off). Bob Clampett wrote and directed the film, which started production in late November 1941 and was completed eight days after the attack on Pearl Harbor . [ 7 ] According to an article of The Hollywood Reporter , it took three weeks to complete. Counting from the drawing of the first sketch to the shipping of the first print. [ 1 ] The paper reported that production would typically last two months. It was reportedly produced "free of charge". [ 1 ] In it, Bugs Bunny sings a portion of Berlin's song against a patriotic backdrop, at one point going into a blackface parody of Al Jolson . He sings "Any Stamps Today" For the song's last refrain, he is joined by Porky Pig, in Navy uniform, and Elmer Fudd, in Army garb, who both make a cameo in the cartoon. (Description source:…
Directors & creators
Warner Bros. & U.S. Treasury Dept. Defense Savings Staff
Subjects
Any Bonds Today, bonds, propaganda, WWII, Bugs Bunny
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