Elmer's Candid Camera
Elmer's Candid Camera
NR | 02 March 1940 (USA)
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Elmer takes up wildlife photography but finds his subject, a rabbit, much too rascally.

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Scanialara

You won't be disappointed!

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Stometer

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Maidexpl

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

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Jonah Abbott

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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Mightyzebra

*Wiping tears from eyes with hankie*All right, not really, but for some reason I love this rabbit, even if he is a little mean to his companion in the cartoon. In this old WB cartoon, we see a rabbit who is probably called Happy Rabbit and he was the bunny that evolved into Bugs Bunny. He first appears as a rabbit that looks a lot different (but better) in "Porky's Hare Hunt" and this bunny's next appearance was "Prest-O Change- O". He was called, informally, Happy Rabbit. Happy Rabbit then evolved into another cartoon bunny (I do not know if he was called Happy Rabbit as well) and his first appearance is "Hare- um Scare-um". His last appearance is this cartoon, which is why I have mentioned all this information.BE PREPARED FOR MORE INFORMATION. This is one of Elmer Fudd's debuts. His other debut is "A Feud There Was." In "A Feud There Was", there is an old WB character called Egghead, but he is called Elmer Fudd. The reason this cartoon is one of Elmer Fudd's debuts is because that this is the first cartoon where his name is mentioned. In "Elmer's Candid Camera", he behaves more like Elmer Fudd and looks more like Elmer Fudd, but his appearance was to change into who we know today in the future.Anyhow, in this cartoon, Elmer is going to photograph wildlife. He goes out and soon finds Happy Rabbit, peacefully sleeping (for some reason in open view). Happy Rabbit wakes up and is very angry with Elmer for photographing him, as he had never met him. You would not like being photographed by a complete stranger without permission, would you? Cartoon capers commence...I like this cartoon for Happy Rabbit (even though some of his violence aimed at Elmer is a wee bit unnecessary), Elmer Fudd, the animation and the way some of the gags turn out. There is no real plot, even less so than in most plot less cartoons.I recommend this to people who have an understanding of how it feels to be photographed by a complete stranger, Happy Rabbit and Elmer Fudd. Enjoy "Elmer's Candid Camera"! :-)P.S CCTHEMOVIEMAN-1!! THE ANIMATION REMINDED ME OF BAMBI TOO! :-)

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Lee Eisenberg

In Elmer Fudd's first appearance, he tries to photograph wildlife, but an unidentified pesky rabbit - clearly Bugs Bunny's forebear - keeps interfering (cartoon rabbits show no mercy, do they?). One will note that both characters are very sedate here - as opposed to the wacky antics with which we usually associate them - and maybe that makes "Elmer's Candid Camera" seem a little weaker than when it first debuted. But if we interpret it as what it was originally meant to be, then it's acceptable. If nothing else, it's a good historical reference. Available on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.I wonder, are there any people in the world today named Elmer? There was Elmer Bernstein, but he's passed on.

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Akbar Shahzad (rapt0r_claw-1)

ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA (1940) is the debut of Elmer Fudd and the Bugs Bunny prototype. Woody Woodpecker is much better suited to that annoying and painful shriek of a laugh. Elmer? He's better than the rabbit at least. Besides, what is it with that sadistic rabbit? All Elmer wanted to do is take pictures. Except for those small flaws, and the weird, primitive animation, I have no complaints about ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA.

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PeachHamBeach

This little gray rabbit with the perfect powder puff cotton tail and the wacky laugh seems to be Bugs Bunny's Dad!!! This early version of B. Bunny is also seen in a cartoon with an earlier version of Elmer Fudd called "Hare-Um Scare-Um". And as I said before, Bugs' grandpa seems to be the little white/pink bunny in the early "Porky's Hare Hunt" and another film, "Prest-o Change-o".In this funny little gem, Elmer Fudd hopes to get a new hobby going: photographing wildlife. He tries many times to get pics of squirrels, birds, and a cute little gway wabbit, but the wabbit keeps thwarting poor Elmer's efforts.I do prefer the true personality of Bugs, the one that Tex Avery created and Chuck Jones refined, but this cartoon is very endearing.

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