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"d: 3 days ago Category: Animation To Duck or Not to Duck is a Warner Bros. cartoon released in theatres in 1943, directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. The film initially is set by a lake but concludes at a boxing match. Mel Blanc provides the voice of Daffy, while Arthur Q. Bryan, who is not credited in the title card, provides the voice of Elmer. The cartoon has fallen into the public domain, as United Artists (successor-in-interest to Associated Artists Productions) failed to renew the copyright in time. It is found on many VHS tapes of public domain cartoons, with very badly faded colors (in fact, the a.a.p. logo was left intact!). It has been fully restored on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6. It is the earliest-released color Looney Tune to have these each of these two distinctions: to fall into the public domain, and to have its original opening and closing titles survive (the two color Looney Tunes that preceded it, The Hep Cat and My Favorite Duck, remain under copyright, and were given Blue Ribbon reissues; both have been restored on DVD, but each still feature the Blue Ribbon titles)."

Lovingly restored with correct intro cards and music, this Tex Avery-directed short of 1940 features the debut of the Bugs Bunny we grew to love. The plot was straightforward: Bugs is being hunted by Elmer Fudd (who really makes his debut here too as the role we grew to love too), and so Bugs has to outwit him! The cartoon was such a big theatrical hit that Bugs became a household name in no-time, and has been one since!