Shrunken Cinema/Termite Terrace/Wabbit Twouble
From Eccentric Flower
Wabbit Twouble
1941
Summary: Elmer goes camping for "west and wewaxation," but Bugs and a bear have other plans.
Director: Bob Clampett
Writer: Dave Monahan
Featuring: Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny.
Onreel
0:23 The "BUGS BUNNY IN" card was made by actually photographing letters made from carved slices of carrot. The credits are unusual (in addition to their spelling, see Offreel) in that they have motion and integrate directly into the cartoon, instead of being still slides.
0:27 Sound cue: "Says Who? Says You, Says I!" during the opening credits.
0:40 This use of "multiplane" techniques is extremely unusual for a Warner cartoon of this era. "Multiplane" is in quotes because the studio did not have a multiplane camera. (Even if it had been available to them - Disney and Ub Iwerks built their own - Schlesinger surely wouldn't have paid for it.) Here it was probably achieved by moving the background layers at different speeds sideways across the view of the (fixed) camera. Later they would use this technique quite a bit more, notably in Road Runner cartoons.
0:54 Elmer's car does the conga. Sound cue matches appropriately.
1:24 "Jellostone" park (for Yellowstone, of course) precedes Yogi Bear's "Jellystone" by seventeen years.
1:39 Note this cartoon is still in the era when Bugs was allowed to make mischief without having received some provocation first.
2:51 Sound cue: "The Angels Came Thru" while Elmer is in the hammock.
4:18 Sound cue: "Says Who? Says You, Says I!" again.
5:26 This advice is false, by the by.
6:49 Sound cue (chase scene): Overture from "William Tell."
7:49 Sound cue (in jail): "Am I Blue."
Offreel
This is the first of the handful of "fat Elmer" cartoons. Clampett reportedly 1) wanted to make Elmer look more like his voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan 2) thought a fatter Elmer would be funnier 3) was annoyed because he could no longer make Porky as fat as his initial appearances and so made Elmer a fat character instead. Pick one, pick two, pick them all.
This was the first cartoon to have a title where a word or words is spelled Elmer-style. In this film they extend it even to the credits, so that Bob Clampett's director credit becomes "Superwision: Wobert Cwampett," and so forth.
This is the first Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Clampett.
