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