Claim: Tortoise Beats Hare was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Fred Avery, the man who was crucial in creating and evolving famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny and Duffy Duck.
Evidence: Leon Schlesinger Supervision:
Fred Avery The short, loosely based on the Aesopian fable The Tortoise and the Hare, stars Bugs Bunny and, in his first appearance, Cecil Turtle. This cartoon has an almost identical plot to Avery's Porky's Duck Hunt (1937), which had introduced Daffy Duck.