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Elmer's Candid Camera is a 1940 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.
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Plot
Elmer has come to the country to photograph the landscape. Elmer tries to photograph rabbits. Happy finds him a convenient victim to harass, just for the fun of it, especially after Elmer rejects the rabbit's seemingly friendly nature. This tormenting eventually drives Elmer insane, causing him to jump into a lake and nearly drown. Happy saves him, ensures that Elmer is all right now - and then kicks him straight back into the lake.
Availability
- (1988) VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Elmer!
- (1988) LaserDisc - Cartoon Moviestars: Bugs! and Elmer!
- (1992) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 2, Side 2: Early Wabbits
- (1995) VHS - Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition, Vol. 11: Wabbit Tales (1995 USA Turner Dubbed Version)
- (2003) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three (Remastered with DVNR)
- (2003) DVD - Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 1, Disc 1
- (2010) DVD - The Essential Bugs Bunny, Disc 1
- (2012) Blu-ray, DVD - Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc Two (Remastered without DVNR)
- (2014) DVD - Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 1
- (2017) Streaming - Boomerang App
- (2020) Streaming - HBO Max
- (2020) Blu-ray - Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection, Disc 1
Notes
- It marks the first appearance of Elmer Fudd (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan), who had evolved from Tex Avery's Egghead, and the very last appearance (other than a cameo in "Patient Porky") of Happy Rabbit (voiced by Mel Blanc), who would become Bugs Bunny a few months later, beginning with "A Wild Hare".
- Happy Rabbit is more like Bugs Bunny in this short, except he has apricot-colored gloves and mouth, furrier tail, black nose, black-tipped ears, and a different voice. Happy's voice sounds "rural", and at times sounds rather like Daffy Duck's early voice. The laugh at the end of the cartoon, "Heh-heh-heh-HEH-heh!", is similar to that of another Blanc character, the early version of Woody Woodpecker, which would debut later in the year.
- Elmer's voice is fully developed, and his appearance is similar to that in later cartoons, except for having shiny cheeks and nose. When in a mild-mannered mood, he is very much like the familiar Elmer. When enraged, as shown in the frame here, his appearance is decidedly uncharacteristic, nearly maniacal.
Gallery
| Preceded by Hare-um Scare-um |
Happy Rabbit Cartoons 1940 |
Succeeded by A Wild Hare |
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