Shrunken Cinema/Termite Terrace/Hair Raising Hare
From Eccentric Flower
Hair-Raising Hare
1945
Summary: A mad scientist lures Bugs to his castle to provide dinner for his monster.
Director: Chuck Jones
Writer: Tedd Pierce
Featuring: Bugs Bunny.
Onreel
0:21 Sound cue: Re this ominous three-chord opening see The Hare-Brained Hypnotist.
0:34 Sound cue: Bugs sings "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart."
1:08 The sound cue for the mechanical rabbit's walk is an appropriately tinny version of "Oh! You Beautiful Doll."
2:26 Sound cue as Bugs packs: "California, Here I Come."
3:28 Has anyone ever actually stopped a theatrical performance to ask if there was a doctor in the house?
4:05 Sound cue (Bugs-as-lamp softshoe): "Shuffle Off to Buffalo."
4:17 "Hey! Frankenstein!" Bugs means Frankenstein's monster, of course.
4:39 Sound cue: "The Wish That I Wish Tonight." This is the same cue used for the very similar hairdresser sequence in Water, Water Every Hare.
6:04 Bugs' walk and eyebrow-wiggling here are meant to evoke Groucho Marx. A number of Bugs' other bits in this cartoon (e.g. "Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven") are also very Marxian.
6:18 Sound cue: Overture from "Light Cavalry" by Franz von Suppé. Bugs has on a locomotive engineer's hat and pulls a cord as if for a train whistle.
6:44 Sound cue: "Headin' For My Beddin'," like the rabbit says. As far as I can tell this is an original (Stalling used the same music when the trains pass one another in Hare Trigger). The only site I can find which has any attribution for the lyrics credits them to Mel Blanc! Not impossible, I suppose ....
7:27 "Well ... so it's mechanical!"
Offreel
This is the first of the cartoons involving the big orange monster later named "Rudolph" and then "Gossamer." See also Water, Water Every Hare. In that cartoon the mad scientist is supposed to sound like Vincent Price; here the scientist both looks and sounds like Peter Lorre.
