Director(s)Chuck Jones
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Top GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short Films
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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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Elmer Fudd: Oh, Bwunehiwda, you're so wuvwee.
Bugs Bunny: Yes I know it, I can't help it.


Bugs: O mighty warrior of great fighting stock / Might I inquire to ask, ehh, what's up Doc?


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.


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According to Chuck Jones, there are 104 cuts in this cartoon, an unusually high number for a Warner Bros. cartoon.
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.
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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National Film Registry

What's Opera, Doc?

Released 1957
Inducted 1992
(Short, Sound)




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