Falling Hare

original title:
Falling Hare
other titles:
Un lapin fuyant, Snurre Sprätt lär sig flyga
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8 min. , color
premiere:
USA: 30 October 1943
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plot synopsis:
Bugs Bunny is an Air Force soldier and reads in a piloting book about Gremlins being a pilots biggest danger. He laughs at it but right then encounters one Gremlin who starts beating on the A-Bomb on which Bugs sits with a mallet. When Bugs finally realizes the malevolent nature of the gremlin it is already too late and they are in a flying plane. Bugs has to land it despite of the notorious attempts on sabotage by the Gremlin. When finally they are spiralling down to earth with huge velocity they suddenly stand still just some feet above earth. Bugs and the Gremlin, now at peace, speak to the viewers about being out of gas, pointing at a wartime sticker warning to save gas.
literature:
Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E.: Seeing Red, White 'n' Blue:1943. Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2004.
remarks:
The book Bugs Bunny is reading, "Victory thru Hare Power", is a nod to the well-known military book "Victory through Air Power" that Walt Disney had already turned into a movie.
The "A"-sticker at the end of the film was probably well-known by the viewers as Bugs says to the viewers pointing at it: "You know how it's like".
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