Edward Selzer (January 12, 1893 – February 22, 1970) was an American animator and publicist who served as head of Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1958. After the studio was purchased from Leon Schlesinger by Warner Bros. in 1944, Selzer was assigned studio head by Jack L. Warner. His first cartoon was Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears.
Unlike his predecessor, Selzer did not want any on-screen credit as producer for Warner Bros. Much of what is publicly known about Selzer's personality and business acumen is from Chuck Jones' autobiography, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist. In it, Jones paints Selzer as an interfering bore with no appreciation of animated cartoons. They later developed a mutual respect and understanding of one another, remaining friendly until Selzer's passing. Eddie Selzer was proud of his position as producer of the Looney Tunes series because of the joy the team's creations brought to so many. Selzer retired in 1958, and John Burton became the head of Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Academy Awards
Best Animated Short Film
Best Documentary
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Rhapsody Rabbit
(1946)
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Duck Amuck
(1953)
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Rabbit Fire
(1951)
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Boyhood Daze
(1957)
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What's Opera, Doc?
(1957)
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Rabbit Seasoning
(1952)
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Tweetie Pie
(1947)
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Buccaneer Bunny
(1948)
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Golden Yeggs
(1950)
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Rabbit Transit
(1947)
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Rebel Rabbit
(1949)
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The Old Grey Hare
(1944)
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Plane Daffy
(1944)
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Stage Door Cartoon
(1944)
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The Stupid Cupid
(1944)
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Lost and Foundling
(1944)
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Life with Feathers
(1945)
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The Unruly Hare
(1945)
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Draftee Daffy
(1945)
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Herr Meets Hare
(1945)
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Hare Conditioned
(1945)
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Nasty Quacks
(1945)
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A Tale of Two Mice
(1945)
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Hare Trigger
(1945)
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The Bashful Buzzard
(1945)
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Fresh Airedale
(1945)
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Trap Happy Porky
(1945)
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Wagon Heels
(1945)
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A Gruesome Twosome
(1945)
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Holiday for Shoestrings
(1946)
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The Eager Beaver
(1946)
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Kitty Kornered
(1946)
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Book Revue
(1946)
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The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
(1946)
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Racketeer Rabbit
(1946)
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Baseball Bugs
(1946)
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Daffy Doodles
(1946)
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Hush My Mouse
(1946)
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The Mouse-Merized Cat
(1946)
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Rhapsody Rabbit
(1946)
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Hare Remover
(1946)
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Hair-Raising Hare
(1946)
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Hollywood Canine Canteen
(1946)
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Acrobatty Bunny
(1946)
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The Big Snooze
(1946)
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Bacall to Arms
(1946)
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Walky Talky Hawky
(1946)
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Crowing Pains
(1947)
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Easter Yeggs
(1947)
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A Hare Grows in Manhattan
(1947)
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Rabbit Transit
(1947)
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A Pest in the House
(1947)
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Tweetie Pie
(1947)
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Birth of a Notion
(1947)
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Along Came Daffy
(1947)
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House Hunting Mice
(1947)
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A Horse Fly Fleas
(1947)
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Slick Hare
(1947)
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The Goofy Gophers
(1947)
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I Taw a Putty Tat
(1948)
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The Up-Standing Sitter
(1948)
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Bugs Bunny Rides Again
(1948)
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Gorilla My Dreams
(1948)
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Haredevil Hare
(1948)
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What Makes Daffy Duck
(1948)
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Buccaneer Bunny
(1948)
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Dough Ray Me-ow
(1948)
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A-Lad-in His Lamp
(1948)
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Daffy Duck Slept Here
(1948)
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Rabbit Punch
(1948)
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You Were Never Duckier
(1948)
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Bone Sweet Bone
(1948)
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Back Alley Oproar
(1948)
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The Foghorn Leghorn
(1948)
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The Stupor Salesman
(1948)
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Kit for Cat
(1948)
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Bad Ol' Putty Tat
(1949)
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Rebel Rabbit
(1949)
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Awful Orphan
(1949)
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Bye, Bye Bluebeard
(1949)
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The Grey Hounded Hare
(1949)
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The Windblown Hare
(1949)
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Fast and Furry-ous
(1949)
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For Scent-imental Reasons
(1949)
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Mouse Wreckers
(1949)
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High Diving Hare
(1949)
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Often an Orphan
(1949)
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Daffy Duck Hunt
(1949)
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Paying the Piper
(1949)
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Swallow the Leader
(1949)
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A Ham in a Role
(1949)
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Dough for the Do-Do
(1949)
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Bowery Bugs
(1949)
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Rabbit Hood
(1949)
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Mississippi Hare
(1949)
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Hippety Hopper
(1949)
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So Much for So Little
(1949)
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Hare Do
(1949)
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Bear Feat
(1949)
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The Ducksters
(1950)
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The Hypo-Chondri-Cat
(1950)
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Home, Tweet Home
(1950)
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Homeless Hare
(1950)
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It's Hummer Time
(1950)
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An Egg Scramble
(1950)
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Hillbilly Hare
(1950)
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8 Ball Bunny
(1950)
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All a Bir-r-r-d
(1950)
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Big House Bunny
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Two's a Crowd
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The Lion's Busy
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Bushy Hare
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Rabbit of Seville
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Boobs in the Woods
(1950)
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Golden Yeggs
(1950)
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Dog Gone South
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Canary Row
(1950)
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Bunker Hill Bunny
(1950)
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Strife with Father
(1950)
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Mutiny on the Bunny
(1950)
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Canned Feud
(1951)
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Scent-imental Romeo
(1951)
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Early to Bet
(1951)
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Lovelorn Leghorn
(1951)
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Bunny Hugged
(1951)
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Cheese Chasers
(1951)
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Putty Tat Trouble
(1951)
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Tweety's S.O.S.
(1951)
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Drip-Along Daffy
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A Bone for a Bone
(1951)
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Chow Hound
(1951)
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The Wearing of the Grin
(1951)
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The Fair Haired Hare
(1951)
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Rabbit Fire
(1951)
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A Bear for Punishment
(1951)
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Ballot Box Bunny
(1951)
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Big Top Bunny
(1951)
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Rabbit Every Monday
(1951)
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Room and Bird
(1951)
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Tweet Tweet Tweety
(1951)
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French Rarebit
(1951)
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Sleepy Time Possum
(1951)
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Hare We Go
(1951)
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Operation: Rabbit
(1952)
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Thumb Fun
(1952)
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Foxy by Proxy
(1952)
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The Turn-Tale Wolf
(1952)
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Feed the Kitty
(1952)
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Beep, Beep
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Oily Hare
(1952)
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Gift Wrapped
(1952)
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Rabbit Seasoning
(1952)
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Water, Water Every Hare
(1952)
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A Bird in a Guilty Cage
(1952)
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Little Red Rodent Hood
(1952)
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Kiddin' the Kitten
(1952)
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Ain't She Tweet
(1952)
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Going! Going! Gosh!
(1952)
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14 Carrot Rabbit
(1952)
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The Super Snooper
(1952)
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Ant Pasted
(1953)
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Forward March Hare
(1953)
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Lumber Jack-Rabbit
(1953)
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Kiss Me Cat
(1953)
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Hare Trimmed
(1953)
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Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
(1953)
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Duck Amuck
(1953)
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Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
(1953)
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Punch Trunk
(1953)
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A Peck O' Trouble
(1953)
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Fowl Weather
(1953)
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Snow Business
(1953)
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Much Ado About Nutting
(1953)
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Zipping Along
(1953)
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Bully for Bugs
(1953)
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Cat-Tails for Two
(1953)
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Claws for Alarm
(1954)
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Dr. Jerkyl's Hide
(1954)
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No Parking Hare
(1954)
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Bell Hoppy
(1954)
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Goo Goo Goliath
(1954)
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Stop! Look! and Hasten!
(1954)
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By Word of Mouse
(1954)
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Satan's Waitin'
(1954)
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Wild Wife
(1954)
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My Little Duckaroo
(1954)
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The Oily American
(1954)
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No Barking
(1954)
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Quack Shot
(1954)
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Baby Buggy Bunny
(1954)
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I Gopher You
(1954)
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From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
(1954)
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Bugs and Thugs
(1954)
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Bewitched Bunny
(1954)
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Feline Frame-Up
(1954)
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Little Boy Boo
(1954)
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Devil May Hare
(1954)
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Roman Legion-Hare
(1955)
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Sandy Claws
(1955)
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A Kiddies Kitty
(1955)
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Pizzicato Pussycat
(1955)
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Heir-Conditioned
(1955)
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Ready.. Set.. Zoom!
(1955)
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The Hole Idea
(1955)
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Rabbit Rampage
(1955)
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Lumber Jerks
(1955)
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Dime to Retire
(1955)
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Hyde and Hare
(1955)
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Jumpin' Jupiter
(1955)
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One Froggy Evening
(1955)
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Raw! Raw! Rooster!
(1956)
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The Unexpected Pest
(1956)
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A Star Is Bored
(1956)
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Yankee Dood It
(1956)
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Stupor Duck
(1956)
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The High and the Flighty
(1956)
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Rocket-bye Baby
(1956)
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Tugboat Granny
(1956)
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Deduce, You Say
(1956)
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There They Go-Go-Go!
(1956)
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Heaven Scent
(1956)
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To Hare Is Human
(1956)
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Barbary-Coast Bunny
(1956)
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Bugs' Bonnets
(1956)
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Wideo Wabbit
(1956)
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The Honey-Mousers
(1956)
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Rocket Squad
(1956)
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Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
(1956)
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Broom-Stick Bunny
(1956)
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90 Day Wondering
(1956)
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Napoleon Bunny-Part
(1956)
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Tweety and the Beanstalk
(1957)
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Tabasco Road
(1957)
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Gonzales' Tamales
(1957)
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Go Fly a Kit
(1957)
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Scrambled Aches
(1957)
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Ali Baba Bunny
(1957)
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Birds Anonymous
(1957)
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Show Biz Bugs
(1957)
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Steal Wool
(1957)
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Three Little Bops
(1957)
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Boyhood Daze
(1957)
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Bedevilled Rabbit
(1957)
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Ducking the Devil
(1957)
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What's Opera, Doc?
(1957)
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The Cartoon Collection
(1988)
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