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What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

Director(s) Chuck Jones
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short Films
More Films Directed by Chuck Jones More Films from 1957 More Films from the 1950s Top Classic Movies of the 1950s

What's Opera, Doc? Overview:

What's Opera, Doc? (1957) was a Animation - Musical Film directed by Chuck Jones .

What's Opera, Doc? was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992.

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What's Opera, Doc? Quotes:

Elmer Fudd: I will do it with my spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: Spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: Magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: [aside to audience, cynical] Magic helmet.
[last lines]
Bugs: Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?
Bugs: O mighty warrior of great fighting stock / Might I inquire to ask, ehh, what's up Doc?
Elmer Fudd: Oh, Bwunehiwda, you're so wuvwee.
Bugs Bunny: Yes I know it, I can't help it.
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What's Opera, Doc? Facts
When Elmer is summoning the various forces of nature ("North Wind bwow! South Wind bwow!" etc.), Mel Blanc does the summoning on the final incantation ("Smog!") because Arthur Q. Bryan's reading was not strong enough. Bryan's reading of the line can be heard on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 DVD vocal only audio track.
In animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was selected as the #1 cartoon of all time.
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. only allotted five weeks for the production of each seven-minute short, but director Chuck Jones spent seven weeks on this short. To cover up for the extra time spent, he had his entire unit doctor their time cards to make it appear as if they working on the Road Runner/Coyote short Zoom and Bored for two weeks before they actually started (since Chuck and his staff were so familiar with the Road Runner formula, they were able to complete Zoom and Bored in three weeks).
The first cartoon selected for the National Film Registry.
For the ballet scenes, Chuck Jones and his animators studied dancers Tania Riabouchinskaya and David Lichine, who were working for Warner Bros. at the time. Both dancers had previously worked on Fantasia, as reference models for the "Dance of the Hours" sequence.
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