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Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)

Running Time

June 7, 1941
Release Date

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Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)

Name: Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Western
Released: 1941-06-07

Running Time

June 7, 1941
Release Date

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Plot.

Bugs Bunny is hunted by Hiawatha, a stereotyped Native American who fills roughly the same role as Elmer Fudd in other Bugs Bunny cartoons of this era.

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Cast & Crew.

Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny / Hiawatha (voice) (uncredited)

Friz Freleng

Director

Leon Schlesinger

Producer

Gil Turner

Animation

Lenard Kester

Background Designer

Milt Franklyn

Orchestrator

Cal Dalton

Animation

Carl W. Stalling

Music Director / Original Music Composer

Herman Cohen

Animation

Robert Givens

Character Designer

Treg Brown

Sound Effects Editor / Editor

Richard Bickenbach

Animation

Michael Maltese

Story

Gerry Chiniquy

Animation

Manuel Perez

Animation

Media.

Details.

Release Date
June 7, 1941

Status
Released

Running Time
8m

Genres
Animation Comedy Western

Last updated: 2025-05-12

This Movie Is About.

cartoon

native american

cartoon rabbit

rabbit hunting

merrie melodies

bugs bunny

Wiki.

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. Mel Blanc voiced all characters. This film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (cartoons), but lost to Walt Disney's Lend a Paw (a plot point which will figure into What's Cookin' Doc?). This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short makes several direct references to The Song of Hiawatha, an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.