Carnival of the Animals (1976)
November 22, 1976Release Date
Carnival of the Animals (1976)
November 22, 1976Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Porky Pig (voice)
Michael Tilson Thomas
Self - Conductor
Chuck Jones
Director / Writer / Producer
Gerry Woolery
Director
Herbert Klynn
Director / Production Design
Sam Horta
Editor
Joe Siracusa
Editor
Camille Saint-Saëns
Music
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired on TV as Carnival of the Animals) is a 1976 live action/animated television special featuring the Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and directed by Chuck Jones.
The special, based on Camille Saint-Saëns' musical suite The Carnival of the Animals and consisting of entirely new animation, was purposely cast in the successful mold of Jones' own earlier musical cartoons (including Rabbit of Seville, Long-Haired Hare and Baton Bunny), and set the familiar showbiz rivalry between Bugs and Daffy against the orchestral backdrop of conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, in a performance based on Saint-Saëns' music and Ogden Nash's poetry.
Carnival of the Animals originally aired on CBS on November 22, 1976, and was the first Warner Bros.-commissioned work featuring Bugs Bunny following the release of the cartoon False Hare, as well as their first Looney Tunes production following the second closure of their original animation studio on October 10, 1969.
This is an abridged version of the work, omitting the "Tortoise", "Characters with Long Ears", "Cuckoo" and "Swan" movements and using the "Pianists" music over the ending credits.