Dryden Kids! Bugs Bunny at 75 film screening
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The Dryden Kids series is designed to provide our youngest audiences and their parents with awareness that great entertainment is often also great art, and a remarkable tool for both understanding and finding our way in the world. Dryden Kids will run on select Sundays throughout the year at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Tickets for all Dryden Kids screenings are free for attendees 17 years old and younger! $6 members, $8 nonmembers, and $4 students with ID.
Bugs Bunny at 75
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Bugs Bunny, who first sauntered onto the screen in Tex Avery’s 1940 A Wild Hare and, in that unforgettable New York accent, asked, “What’s up, doc?” Quickly becoming an icon of sophisticated slapstick animation, Bugs Bunny repeatedly demonstrated brain over brawn, and he’s now best remembered for outwitting characters often bigger and better armed. While the violence in these cartoons can be extreme, it’s also often the object of mockery. In contrast with some of his gun-toting enemies, Bugs is rooted in intellect—an aficionado of high culture.
A Wild Hare (Tex Avery, US 1940, 8 min., 16mm)
Hare Do (Friz Freleng, US 1948, 7 min., 16mm)
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (Robert Clampett, US 1942, 7 min., 16mm)
Hare Trigger (Friz Freleng, US 1945, 8 min., 16mm)
Knighty Knight Bugs (Friz Freleng, US 1958, 6 min., 16mm)
Rabbit Fire (Chuck Jones, US 1951, 7 min. 16mm)
Hyde and Hare (Friz Freleng, US 1955, 7 min., 16mm)
What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, US 1957, 7 min., 35mm)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, US 1953, 7 min., 35mm)
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