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The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie is a 1979 American animated comedy package film directed by Chuck Jones, consisting of a compilation of classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts and newly animated bridging sequences hosted by Bugs Bunny.[1] The bridging sequences, which had been produced in 1978, show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania). The film was released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bugs Bunny.[2][3]
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The film was released between April-May 1979 in some test markets as The Great American Chase.[3][4] The film was shown at the 17th New York Film Festival on September 29, 1979, at Alice Tully Hall.[5] The film opened at the Guild 50th Theatre on September 30, 1979.[6] It set an opening-day record at the theater with a gross of $6,280.[2]
Warner Home Video (known as WCI Home Video prior to 1980) released The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie on VHS and Betamax cassettes for the first time in 1979 as one of the studio's 20 launch titles (catalog number WB-1003), re-released in 1981 as well as on CED that same year, and again on VHS and Betamax in 1983 in the correct running time whereas previous releases had presented it time-compressed. After its fourth home video release in 1986 (which reverted back to the time-compressed print until 1997), the film was re-released on VHS and LaserDisc on February 3, 1998 (as part of the Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary VHS promotion). The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie was released along with Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales on the Looney Tunes Movie Collection two-disc DVD set in 2005. It is also available for purchase or rent in the Apple iTunes Store and has appeared on Netflix in various locations; both iTunes and Netflix have the movie available in remastered HD quality. It is additionally available for HD streaming or download on Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft Store, Movies Anywhere, Vudu, and Xfinity.[7] No official Blu-ray version of the movie exists.
THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER HOURWritten by Kevin McCorry "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour." (curtain rises) "Overture, curtain, lights! This is it. The night of nights. No more rehearsing or nursing a part. We know every part by heart! (cane flip) Overture, curtain, lights! This is it. We'll hit the heights! And oh, what heights we'll hit! On with the show, this is it! (character procession) Tonight what heights we'll hit! On with the show, this is it!" "Starring the Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny." "And also starring my fast-feathered friend, the Road Runner!" (Road Runner zips forward on film projector screen) "Beep, beep!" "Road Runner, that Coyote's after you! Road Runner, if he catches you, you're through! Road Runner, that Coyote's after you! Road Runner, if he catches you, you're through! That Coyote is really a crazy clown! When will he learn that he never can slow him down? Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone. Just running down the road is his idea of having fun!" "Beep, beep!" "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour." Warner Brothers' cartoons (with Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Cat, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, and other highly enjoyable personages) received their best U.S. network television treatment on CBS' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour.
In 1968, when CBS acquired the U.S. network broadcast rights to Bugs Bunny's television show, it decided to merge the two television programmes into one, and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was born. For the opening to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, the "This is it" song from The Bugs Bunny Show, performed by Bugs and Daffy and written by Jerry Livingston and Mack David, was joined by most of the song written by Barbara Cameron for The Road Runner Show. Stage scenes from The Bugs Bunny Show, with Bugs and the other characters, introduced some of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour cartoons- and between-cartoon gag vignettes with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, cartoon-animated at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises under the direction of Robert McKimson specially for The Road Runner Show, were also coopted into this newfangled cartoon assembly television series.
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, for most of its long run on the CBC, was usually shown at 5 P.M. Eastern Time in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and also at 5 P.M. Central Time in the Canadian province of Manitoba. But its regular broadcast time in the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island was rather less constant in the six years of its presence on the CBC Saturday programing schedule. Between 1969 and 1973, it was seen in those provinces at either 5 P.M. or 5:30 P.M. or 6 P.M. Atlantic Time. And, for awhile in 1970, 4 P.M.. Occasionally, special programming (live-telecast sports, political events, etc.) late in the afternoon could result in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour being scheduled at an earlier than normal time or could cause an outright preemption of Bugs and the Road Runner.
From 1973 to 1975, in autumn, winter, and early spring, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour tended to be shown at 6 P.M. Atlantic Time in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, though in summer, it hopscotched around the afternoon schedule for CBC television stations. Prior to 1973, in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, it was scheduled immediately after baseball or football games, which were only allotted a scheduled airtime of two and a half hours and almost always exceeded that length, cutting into The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, which would be joined already in progress. On some weeks, more than half of an instalment was missed. In September, 1973, the CBC decided to schedule an hour's worth of other programming at 5 P.M. for those three provinces, between sports and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, so that Bugs Bunny could be depended upon to start his television show on time, at 6 P.M., with no unseemly disruptions. On weeks when golf or some other late-afternoon sport was shown, the CBC obligingly moved Bugs' television show ahead an hour or two to air in its entirety before the sport broadcast.
The CBC stopped its broadcasts of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on August 30, 1975 and issued an announcement to this effect during the closing credits of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour instalment 25, which aired on that day. The Global television network promptly acquired the Bugs Bunny and Road Runner television show and began broadcasting it in the same Saturday airtime.
Season 1 of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, as telecast in Canada by the CBC television network, had full, original theatrical cartoon titles (with production crew credits) for "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!" and "Pre-Hysterical Hare" when those two Bugs Bunny cartoons were shown as part of, respectively, instalments two and twenty-three of the season. The same two Bugs Bunny cartoons had their usual Bugs Bunny/Road Runner title cards in their other Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour first season appearances ("Pre-Hysterical Hare" in episode eleven; "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!" in episode sixteen) in the CBC-held film prints of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour television series entries.
Show 13's cartoons were "This is a Life?", "The Jet Cage", "Mouse Wreckers", "Wideo Wabbit", "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", and "There They Go-Go-Go!". Both "This is a Life?" and "Wideo Wabbit" involve television show spoofs. Bugs activates a television in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" to show to the Tasmanian Devil, via cowboy and Indian visualisations, how Taz's hormones are fighting with his capillaries. Elmer's suggestion in "This is a Life?" that Bugs recount the beginning of his life corresponds to the suggestion by Bugs as a Freudian psychologist in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" that Taz tell about his "id vhen he vas a kid". Also, Claude Cat reads a book on psychology written by Freud in "Mouse Wreckers"! An explosive liquid is imbibed by the Tasmanian Devil in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" and by Yosemite Sam in Show 14's "The Fair Haired Hare". Wile E. Coyote literally "burns up" the road after he swallows ACME's Muscle-Building Vitamins to chase the Road Runner in "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", and the Road Runner has a similar fiery effect on roads in "There They Go-Go-Go!".
From 1969 to 1975, the first season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was repeatedly shown in Canada on CBC Television. This is a Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour broadcast history focusing on CBC Television stations in Canada's eastern Maritimes (the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), on those of the Canadian province of Ontario's east and the Canadian province of Quebec, and on those of Canada's province of Manitoba.
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) was- and still is- a government-owned entity. A considerable percentage of its funding comes from the taxes of Canadians, with advertising revenue from programming on its English-language and French-language television networks being a further component of the CBC operating budget. In the early 1970s, whilst The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was being aired on CBC Television, the CBC's importing of programming from the U.S. and the selling of advertising time in that programming, was a generator of sizable monies for the CBC. However, only a fraction of each Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour commercial interval on CBC Television, was allocated to the showing of product advertising. Public Service Announcements and promotion for upcoming programming on CBC filled the remaining time in those commercial intervals. 2ff7e9595c
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