A report on Warner Bros. Cartoons, Bugs Bunny and Animation

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.

Leon Schlesinger Productions studio, (also nicknamed Termite Terrace) part of the Old Warner Brothers Studio, 1351 North Van Ness Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Bugs' preliminary debut (as "Happy Rabbit") in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).

A projecting praxinoscope, from 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene

Former Leon Schlesinger-Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, 2003

Bugs' first appearance in A Wild Hare (1940).

Evolution of Bugs' design over the years.

Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film El Apóstol.

Bugs as he appears in The Looney Tunes Show Season 2.

An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.

Mel Blanc was the original voice of Bugs and voiced the character for nearly five decades.

A clay animation scene from a Finnish television commercial

Bugs' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A 2D animation of two circles joined by a chain

Statue evoking Bugs Bunny at Butterfly Park Bangladesh.

World of Color hydrotechnics at Disney California Adventure creates the illusion of motion using 1,200 fountains with high-definition projections on mist screens.

Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation.

- Warner Bros. Cartoons

Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

- Bugs Bunny

The characters featured in these cartoons, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, and Tweety, are among the most famous and recognizable characters in the world.

- Warner Bros. Cartoons

Several studios would introduce characters that would become very popular and would have long-lasting careers, including Walt Disney Productions' Goofy (1932) and Donald Duck (1934), Warner Bros. Cartoons' Looney Tunes characters like Porky Pig (1935), Daffy Duck (1937), Bugs Bunny (1938–1940), Tweety (1941–1942), Sylvester the Cat (1945), Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (1949), Fleischer Studios/Paramount Cartoon Studios' Betty Boop (1930), Popeye (1933), Superman (1941) and Casper (1945), MGM cartoon studio's Tom and Jerry (1940) and Droopy, Walter Lantz Productions/Universal Studio Cartoons' Woody Woodpecker (1940), Terrytoons/20th Century Fox's Gandy Goose (1938), Dinky Duck (1939), Mighty Mouse (1942) and Heckle and Jeckle (1946) and United Artists' Pink Panther (1963).

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Looney Tunes is an American animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with the related Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.

The two series introduced a large cast of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.

Schlesinger assumed full production from 1933 until selling his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944.