Animations from 1940

Tarantella

Filed under: animation , , ,

Release Date: 31/12/1940

"Tarantella is an avant-garde, abstract, animated short film with piano accompaniment by Edwin Gerschefski. Mary Ellen Bute, the director and animator of Tarantella, kept some of Norman McLaren’s original paintings from their previous collaboration ..."

Blackboard Revue – A Color Rhapsody

Filed under: animation

Producer(s): Ub Iwerks

Release Date: 15/03/1940

"In this episode of A Color Rhapsody, the blackboard drawings of a school setting come alive, as the characters on screen gather together for class. This Columbia classroom tale features a jungle sequence, musical segment and a story-within-a-story st..."

A Wild Hare

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Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger

Release Date: 27/07/1940

"The first Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon. Elmer is hunting rabbits, and Bugs is no simple target. The cartoon would be often imitated."