FilmBuff1994
Elmers Candid Camera is an early Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon,Bugs is almost the Bunny the world knows and loves today but hes a bit shorter and he sounds different,and Elmer almost looks like the one today,his voice sounds fine accept he looks a bit different and hes still wearing the clothes he wore when he was known as Egghead.Elmer Fudd buys a candid camera to take a picture of wildlife,he starts off with trying to take a picture of a rabbit,but he doesn't know how much trouble it was gonna be since that rabbit turns out to be Bugs Bunny.***/*****3/5 stars
Michael_Elliott
Elmer's Candid Camera (1940) *** (out of 4)Elmer, in his first appearance, is reading a photography book, which inspires him to head out into the wilderness to photo some wildlife. Sadly for him his first target is a troublesome rabbit (a future Bugs Buggy). This certainly isn't classic Looney Tunes but it's a fairly entertaining short in its own right. I think most people will prefer the more classic approach to the characters but if you're fair to this film then you should enjoy it. Not too much happens storywise as Elmer keeps getting jokes played on him. None of the jokes are all that funny but that doesn't mean there isn't any charm here. The highlights are certainly the sequences where Elmer finally goes overboard and blows his cool after the rabbit plays all his jokes.
tday
This cartoon is the first appearance of Arthur Q. Bryan, who, for 20 years, was the voice of Elmer Fudd.Arthur Q. Bryan was seldom credited, but he was the real McCoy (or Fudd!!) Bryan, an accomplished radio actor, actually looked very much like the original Elmer and his body shape was closer to the taller, heavier version, which was the first one.Mel Blanc was, indeed, Bugs' first "hunter" voice in "Hare-um Scare-um" (1939) and has voiced Elmer on occasion, but Elmer Fudd was traditionally done by someone else other than Blanc. Hal Smith took over the job for the majority of Elmer's roles after Bryan's passing. (He also did the same for Walt Disney's Goofy character after the original actor passed away).Most people just assume Elmer Fudd's voice, along with almost all the other voices, was done by Blanc. Amaze your friends with this interesting trivia tidbit! :)
Shawn Watson
In Elmer Fudd's first ever appearance we do not get the Elmer we know and love but fatter guy with a huge head and an ugly bulbous nose. He puts together a 'camera' (snigger) and heads to the woods to take pictures of wildlife. Once there he settle for a picture of Bugs Bunny. Or at least something very remotely resembling (and sounding nothing like) Bugs Bunny. Bugs then proceeds to torment him for no good reason. The cartoon feels like the Itchy and Scratchy parody 'Worker and Parasite' from an episode of The Simpsons. The one even Krusty himself yells 'What the hell was that?' to. Neither Bugs nor Elmer seem at all familiar and act way out of character. Not very good at all.
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