Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their commissions and (more often) composers procrastinated up to the last moment. Such haste, though, was not evident in the H&H's sparkling performance. The piece is highly whimsical and melodramatic in an almost burlesque manner, making it easy to see why Rossini overtures figure so prominently in cartoon soundtracks. Despite the overture's comic nature, the beautiful oboe solo at the beginning of the piece was highly expressive. A flute and oboe duet later in the piece was equally haunting, and reminiscent of Rossini's famous Overture to The Barber of Seville...
...classic Warner Brothers cartoon "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," everyone's favorite wabbit is a bit more wascally than you might remember. In the course of a few minutes, Bugs rolls a cigarette, artfully dodges Yosemite Sam's bullets, and follows a trainload of scantily clad women to Miami. This kind of politically incorrect silliness would never be produced and marketed in the nineties...
That's too bad, because the audience at the Brattle Theatre enjoyed every minute of "The Bugs Bunny Film Fest of the Best '97," a compilation of twelve shorts spanning the golden age of Warner Brothers animation. The inspired lunacy of these cartoon masterpieces lies in their simultaneous frivolity and sophistication. This rare combination has preserved the appeal of these cartoons for over half a century and makes them even more valuable in today's wasteland devoid of truly creative programming. Where else have some of the greatest works of classical music been used to score the falling...
...merger of Warner Bros. and Turner Entertainment has unified the Looney Tunes collection, allowing the Brattle to compose a program that includes the first Bugs Bunny and Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, the first Warner cartoon to win an Oscar and several hilarious Chuck Jones shorts. The festival carefully includes all the famous Looney Tunes phrases--"What's up, Doc?" "I tawt I taw a putty tat!" and "Be vewy, vewy quiet"--but if you listen closely, the cartoons are replete with wry jokes and creative banter...
...Wild Hare," the first cartoon to star Bugs Bunny, shows the rabbit's evolution. Even in this earliest specimen, though, the style and substance of the Bugs and Elmer cartoons are clearly defined: Bugs takes to cross dressing to fool the wily hunter. "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" was made years later, but is essentially the same cartoon with added finesse. In this update, despite Daffy's attempts to stop Bugs' beguiling banter, Elmer's gun keeps displacing Daffy's break from his head...