{"id":46696,"date":"2025-03-19T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46696"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:34:01","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-lumber-jack-rabbit-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-lumber-jack-rabbit-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lumber Jack-Rabbit<\/strong> (1953)<br \/>\nDirected by\tCharles M. Jones<br \/>\nStory by\tMichael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by\tAbe Levitow, Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Notable as the only Bugs Bunny cartoon shot in the 3D process, \u201cLumber Jack-Rabbit\u201d gets off to an amusing start when a wandering Bugs sings \u201cJimmy Crack Corn\u201d while journeying into Paul Bunyan\u2019s garden. Unaware that he is in a giant\u2019s domain \u2013 he mistakes the asparagus for \u201cfunny looking trees\u201d \u2013 he becomes ecstatic at discovering gigantic carrots. Bugs sets up mining equipment to cull his harvest, but is interrupted by Paul Bunyan\u2019s equally massive Smidgen.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From that invigorating start, the cartoon unexpectedly falls flat. Smidgen is a personality-free character and the gags involving tiny Bugs against the massive dog play like a tepid canine remake of the 1943 \u201cJack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk.\u201d The cartoon\u2019s sign-off, with Bugs diverting Smidgen\u2019s attention by pointing out a giant redwood tree, is one of the dullest endings in the Bugs Bunny series.<\/p>\n<p>As for the 3D process, the only aspect of the cartoon where it comes into play is the opening credits with the WB shield overshooting its mark and appearing to come off the screen. Mercifully, \u201cLumber Jack-Rabbit\u201d abstained from having endless objects tossed at the viewer, which was among the annoying gimmicks that helped to speed 3D\u2019s loss of audience popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953) Directed by Charles M. Jones Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Abe Levitow, Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam Music by Carl Stalling Notable as the only Bugs Bunny cartoon shot in the 3D process, \u201cLumber Jack-Rabbit\u201d gets off to an amusing start when a wandering Bugs sings \u201cJimmy Crack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[39,167,1317,3640],"class_list":["post-46696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-3d","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-chuck-jones","tag-paul-bunyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46698,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46696\/revisions\/46698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}