Lumber Jack-Rabbit

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Lumber Jack-Rabbit Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series
Directed by	Charles M. Jones
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Michael Maltese
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Abe Levitow Ken Harris Richard Thompson Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	November 13, 1954 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor/3D
Running time	7 min. (one reel)
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Lumber Jack-Rabbit is a 1953 Looney Tunes animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Bugs Bunny. With a story by Michael Maltese, the short was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 13, 1954. It is notable as the only Warner Bros. cartoon short produced in 3D.

[edit] Plot

Bugs Bunny stumbles on the carrot patch of Paul Bunyan, but doesn't realize that it is guarded by a 124-foot, 4,600-ton dog named Smidgen.

[edit] 3-Dimensional Gimmick

The only concession that Lumber Jack-Rabbit made to the 3-D format was at the very beginning of the cartoon, where the zooming W-B shield seems to leap into the laps of the viewers, springing much farther forward than normal before returning to its usual position. The effect is heightened by a much different sounding "buoinng" sound effect before the Looney Tunes theme plays. The closing sequence is modified as well with the "That's All Folks!" script fading in rather than being written out.