Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt is an American animated short film directed by Friz Freleng from the year 1941.

Action

Bugs Bunny sits munching a carrot on a river and reads aloud The Song of Hiawatha, - the story of an Indian chasing a hare. Prompt is an Indian river swimming up and Bugs Bunny realizes that therefore he must be the bunny itself. He flees. The Indian Hiawatha plans, in fact, to catch a hare. He has placed a large kettle with water and now follows a rabbit trail that leads directly turn to the boiler: Bugs Bunny takes in a bathroom and is pleased when Hiawatha under the boiler ignites a fire, as warm bath water is better than cold. When he hinträumt imagine that he also had an appetite for Rabbit, and Hiawatha are already cut carrots into the water, he realizes that he is to be cooked and flees.

Hiawatha begins with a new tactic and wants Bugs Bunny tie. At the end he lands himself chained to a tree trunk, Bugs Bunny leads him to an Indian dance, kisses him enthusiastically on the forehead and disappears. Although it looks like a short time, as if Hiawatha Bugs Bunny can kill, the Indian falls roughly at the end of a cliff down and exults the hare. Hiawatha breaks angry his bow and drives away, while Bugs Bunny quotes this very end of the song of Hiawatha. The Indians, however, comes back again briefly and kisses the startled hares on the forehead.

Production

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt came on 7 June 1941 as part of the Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon series in theaters. Bugs Bunny and Hiawatha are spoken by Mel Blanc.

The film relates in part on The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Awards

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt 1942 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " nomination, but could not prevail against the heartless savior himself.