A Corny Concerto is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Bob Clampett and written by Frank Tashlin. It features music that was composed by Johann Strauss, and was intended as a parody of Disney's Fantasia and so displays a great degree of timing with the music. In 1994 it was voted #47 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. Merrie Melodies end title Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. ... Robert Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... Frank Tashlin (February 19, 1913 - May 5, 1972) was an animator, screenwriter, and director. ... Robert Bob McKimson, Sr. ... Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. ... Arthur Q. Bryan, as seen in one of his few film roles, from the 1941 film The Devil Bat Arthur Q. Bryan (May 8, 1899 - November 18, 1959) was a United States comedian and voice actor. ... Carl W. Stalling (1888–1974) was the most famous composer and arranger of cartoon music. ... Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. ... Warner Bros. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Warner Bros. ... Merrie Melodies end title Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. ... Robert Emerson Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... Frank Tashlin (February 19, 1913 - May 5, 1972) was an animator, screenwriter, and director. ... Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), Johann Strauss (son); in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr. ... Walt Disney Pictures logo (2006-present) Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. ... Fantasia is a 1940 motion picture produced by Walt Disney. ... The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by those in the animation industry. ...

The Parts

The cartoon is narrated by Elmer Fudd, parodying Leopold Stokowski's appearance in Fantasia. In a staple of cartoon humor, Elmer has trouble trying to control his starched tuxedo shirt, which keeps trying to roll up like a windowshade while he introduces the two pieces about to be shown. In the interlude, he winds up ripping his shirt off in an attempt to keep it in place. The fictional cartoon character Elmer J. Fudd, now one of the most famous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters, also has one of the more convoluted and disputed origins in the Warner Brothers cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs Bunny himself). ... Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz April 18, 1882 in London, England, died September 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, England) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. ...

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Bugs in the middle again.

Set to the tune of Tales from the Vienna Woods, Porky Pig and his hunting dog (who is unnamed) are hunting for Bugs Bunny (with Porky holding up a sign saying, "I'm hunting that @#$! rabbit" and the dog holds a sign of his own simply saying "Ditto", in keeping with the non-dialogue of the cartoon). Bugs, dancing to the time of the music, manages to continue outwitting both Porky and his hunting dog. At one point, for example, the dog points to a hole where Bugs is hiding. Bugs then holds up a sign, "It ain't polite to point!" and scampers off. Image File history File links ACornyConcerto. ... Image File history File links ACornyConcerto. ... Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning street-smart anthropomorphic gray rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ... Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (English: Tales from the Vienna Woods) refers to several landmark works in Germanophone culture, including: a waltz by Johann Strauss II; a play by Ödön von Horváth; and several film adaptations of the play. ... Porky Pig is an Academy Award-nominated animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ...

Towards the end, a single gunshot goes off, with all three characters thinking they got shot. Both Porky and his dog look and see there's no damage. Bugs looks, and acts like he's shot, falling to the ground. Porky and the dog start mourning Bugs, with Porky trying to undo Bugs' fingers around his chest. However, once he does so, Bugs reveals he has a bra underneath! He screams like a woman, knocks Porky and the dog to the ground, and dances off. For the East End rap group, go to Gunshot (rappers). ... Porky could refer to one of the following: Look up Porky in Wiktionary, the free dictionary the toddler character played by Eugene Lee in Hal Roachs 1930s comedy Our Gang (The Little Rascals); Jeffs best friend, played by Joey D. Vieira, in the 1950s TV series Lassie; Porky... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog Canis lupus is a type of canine, a mammal in the order Carnivora. ... Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning street-smart anthropomorphic gray rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ...

The Blue Danube

Set to the tune of The Blue Danube, this cartoon tells the tale of The Ugly Duckling. In this case, a mother swan is leading her children along a river, when a small black duck (a baby Daffy Duck, according to later historians) tries to tag along with them. The mother duck shooes the duck away. When the black duck tries again, with his underwater bubble tactic, the mother duck gets angry at the duck that's the cause of the bubble mess (himself encased in a bubble), and sends him back to the water. The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau op. ... The Ugly Duckling (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a classic-contemporary story by Hans Christian Andersen about a duckling, notably larger, clumsier and uglier than the other ducklings in his brood. ... Genera Cygnus Bechstein 1803 Coscoroba Reichenbach 1853 Swans are large water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. ... River Gambia flowing through Niokolokoba National Park A river is a large natural waterway. ... Daffy, as Duck Dodgers, faces off against Marvin the Martian in the 1953 short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, a parody of Buck Rogers. ...

A large vulture in a "hep cat" hairdo spots the troupe. He sprinkles salt and pepper on one of the ducklings, but too much pepper makes the duckling sneeze. Then, one by one, the vulture picks off the baby swans. He picks up the black duck, but then returns him, labeling the irked duck with a "4F" (unfit for military service). The mother swan sees the ducklings missing and goes into a panic (at one point, she picks up the black duck as if he were an inanimate object). The black duck sees the vulture and becomes enraged. Flying off (for a few moments resembling a P-40 Warhawk fighter), the duck chases the vulture, who turns yellow and drops the baby swans, which each have a parachute which lets them drop safely. The duck chases after the vulture, who gets knocked out. He then hands the vulture a drum of TNT and drops him from the sky. The bomb explodes and kills the vulture, who is last seen floating toward heaven and playing a harp, and held aloft by a helium balloon tied to his tail. Orders Falconiformes (Fam. ... Swans can refer to: Swan, the bird. ... The Curtiss P-40 was an American fighter aircraft which first flew in 1938 and played a vital role in the crucial middle stages of World War II. Developed from the pre-war radial-engined P-36 Hawk, the P-40 became known as the Tomahawk, the Kittyhawk, and finally... Trinitrotoluene (TNT) is an explosive. ... The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, also known as Mother Of All Bombs, produced in the United States. ... The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ... General Name, Symbol, Number helium, He, 2 Chemical series noble gases Group, Period, Block 18, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 4. ... Balloons, like greeting cards or flowers, are given for special occasions. ...

The cartoon ends with the black duck finally being allowed to tag along with the swan and her children, and "quack" to the tune of the waltz's finalé - with only the duck's reflection having a hard time keeping up with the rest of them.

Availability

The short occurs in its entirety in the documentary Bugs Bunny: Superstar Part 1, which is available as a special feature on Discs 1 and 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, although it has not been refurbished or released independently in that series yet.

See also

• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
• List of Bugs Bunny cartoons

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External links

• A Corny Concerto at the Internet Movie Database
• Free to download Corny Concerto in Windows and Real Media format