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Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

1944

Summary: The Bear family tries to find a Goldilocks in a scheme to get some food, but all they manage to attract is Bugs.

Director: Chuck Jones

Writer: Tedd Pierce

Featuring: Bugs Bunny.

Onreel

0:23 Sound cue: This is the old "Do you know the muffin man?" melody ... but see below.

0:36 Sound cue: Mozart's Piano Sonata #16.

1:25 Sound cue: "There's Mutiny in the Nursery." This piece, in addition to the main theme heard here, contains riffs on several bits of traditional nursery rhyme music, including the melody used under the titles - so I'm counting that as a use of this piece, and also the "Sing a song of Sixpence" cue around 5:10 (and so forth). 1938 Paul Whiteman recording

4:10 Sound cue: Bugs hums (and sings a line of) "King For a Day."

Offreel

This cartoon, which is of course a riff on the old tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, is the first of Jones' Three Bears cartoons. In this one Papa Bear is voiced by Mel Blanc; later Billy Bletcher would do this. Bea Benaderet is Mama Bear. Junior Bear is voiced in this cartoon by Kent Rogers. Rogers did a substantial amount of voice work for Warner in a period of just a few years (the voice most distinctively identified with him is that of Horton the elephant), but he died in a military training flight accident in 1944. In later Three Bears cartoons, Stan Freberg would do Junior's voice.

IMDb seems to think that "A Vision of Salome" is used somewhere in here (I suspect for the sequence where Bugs is carried off by the smell of the soup), but the recordings I found of that suggest it's not the same piece (although I can see the confusion). If anyone can tell me differently, please do.

(IMDb also once again cites "In an 18th Century Drawing Room" mistakenly, so I reiterate: Unless it uses more than just the Mozart bit, it's not Raymond Scott, it's just Mozart.)

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