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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
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Subject: Re: Re: Bugs Bunny fan needs help!!
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 16:11:51 EDT
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The answer to the trivia question (which WB cartoon voice DIDN'T come
from Mel Blanc?) is, I believe, the Granny voice in the Tweety Bird
cartoons.  I can't cite an actual printed source, but I think I've heard
this from several people who know about such things.

	By the way, I have discovered that there are actually quite a
few tapes of Warner Bros., MGM, and Disney cartoons floating around out
there. (Disney seems to have released a massive library.)  Being
primarily interested in the Warner Bros. stuff, I've looked into that a
little bit.  There are a lot of titles, such as Looney Tunes #1-3, Best
of Warner Bros. Cartoons, etc.  (Just check the children's/animation
sections in video stores and ask around.)  I haven't managed to find
'50's and '60's cartoons around yet, but they probably exist - although
someone has suggested that the only reason you might find the older
ones available is because copyrights may have worn out on these
already. Some of the Bugs classics from Chuck Jones are on "The Bugs
Bunny Road Runner Movie", but these are spliced together and probably
edited.  Some of the collections I've seen seem to be of quasi-legal
origins (one had "Personally taped by RM" or some such thing on a
sticker on it, and didn't have the FBI sticker).
	In watching some of these cartoons, it's pretty hard to miss how
incredibly racist some of the ones from the '30's and '40's are.  For
example, in one, Bugs spends the cartoon tormenting Elmer Fudd, who is a
Canadian Mountie.  At the end, Elmer has apprehended Bugs, who faces a
firing squad.  Elmer asks Bugs if he has any last wishes.  Bugs:  "Lemme
see... I wish... I wish... I wish I was in Dixie, hoo-ray, hoo-ray"  The
firing squad, Bugs, & Elmer all become black minstrels in a minstrel
show, and sing Camptown Races and a few more things before the Warner
Bros. sign off.  And in general, "natives" are all savage cannibals who
wear bones in their hair and are essentially monkeys in physical
appearance (there is one in which Porky Pig plays a Robinsone Crusoe
type role where this happens, but there are numerous examples...).

					-Steve Shiue

	"Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist."