Tortoise Beats Hare [SEP] series
Tortoise Beats Hare
Tortoise Beats Hare is a 1941 "Merrie Melodies" animated short supervised and laid out by Tex Avery (solely supervisal credited as "Fred A-Very" and read by Bugs Bunny). The short, loosely based on the Aesopian fable "The Tortoise and the Hare," stars Bugs Bunny and, in his first appearance, Cecil Turtle.
Plot.
As the opening credits appear, Bugs Bunny comes on the screen while eating an obligatory carrot and absent-mindedly begins reading them,
in the sequel.
- A trio of "Looney Tunes" cartoons depicts Bugs Bunny racing the slow-moving Cecil Turtle in a contemporary version of one of Aesop's fables. The cartoons are "Tortoise Beats Hare", "Tortoise Wins by a Hare" and "Rabbit Transit". Because of this trio, Cecil is the only character in the Looney Tunes series who consistently gets the better of Bugs.
- For the Hammer Films production of "One Million Years B.C.", Ray Harryhausen created and animated