Bugs Bunny Animation Cel
date: label: Date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Warner Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Animation cel of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny. The gray rabbit is drawn with white feet and gloves, standing in full upright position, gesturing with his right hand. He is wearing a blue vest, red bowtie, yellow jacket, and a blue-banded straw hat.
label: Description
content: Tex Avery gave birth to Bugs Bunny in an award-winning cartoon he produced for Warner Brothers in 1940 called <i>The Wild Hare</i>. Initially known as Jack E. Rabbit, Bugs later received his better-known name from another Warner Brothers director of the same name. Though the rabbit received his name from Ben “Bugs” Hardaway, he received his ornery personality from Tex Avery. During the Second World War, Bugs Bunny became more popular than Disney or MGM short subjects. But Bugs received his widest audience through the medium of television, both through syndication and distribution of earlier cartoons and through <i>The Bugs Bunny Show</i>, appearing from 1960 to the late 1990s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
topic: label: general subject association
content: Motion Pictures
label: general subject association
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Animation
label: Subject
content: Cartoon Characters
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mel J. Blanc
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0247.04
label: accession number
content: 1985.0247
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0247.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cel, animation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: acetate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint, acrylic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 11 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 29.21 cm