Shrunken Cinema/Termite Terrace/High Diving Hare
From Eccentric Flower
High Diving Hare
1948
Summary: Bugs is forced to perform a high-diving act for Yosemite Sam, but it's Sam who ends up taking the dives.
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Tedd Pierce
Featuring: Bugs Bunny; Yosemite Sam.
Onreel
0:28 Sound cue: If this Sousa-like march is identifiable, I haven't identified it yet.
0:34 Sound cue: This is "Parade of the Animals," which Stalling uses for all sorts of circus and marching-band cues (when he isn't using "Frat"). It will be reused later in the cartoon.
0:48 "Frizby the Magician" is a Friz Freleng joke.
1:42 Sound cue: The suspenseful music (barely audible) during Bugs' high dive intro is "Die Erlkönig," Schubert's setting of the Goethe poem.
2:09 Sound cue for the telegram: "April Showers."
6:15 "You notice I didn't say Richard?" "Open the Door, Richard" was a novelty song performed by a number of acts, including Count Basie and his orchestra.
6:36 "Him go that way!" The scene where Bugs dresses as an Indian has been cut from various television airings by the overly politically sensitive.
6:41 Sound cue: Overture from "William Tell."
Offreel
This entire short is basically an expansion of a single gag from Stage Door Cartoon, which Freleng also directed.
Another "step over this line" gag is in Bugs Bunny Rides Again.
Sam falls nine times, including two where we don't see what business they get up to at the top of the ladder.
