Page 8 - RD_2015_12

Melbourne Express: Thursday, July 27, 2017

On this day in 1940, Bugs Bunny made his first official appearance in a Merrie
Melodies cartoon.

While a similar-looking character appeared in a previous Warner Bros. short, cartoon
historians say this was the first cartoon in which he exhibited the laid-back Bugs Bunny
attitude, uttering his "What's Up, Doc?" catchphrase for the first time.

A screenshot from the first ever Bugs
Bunny short. Photo: Craig Butt
Source:
<www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbo
urne-express-thursday-july-27-2017-
20170725-gxiim4.html>

Can you spot the problem with this
16 mm film?

I came across it recently on a reel of
music numbers from the 1951 ver-
sion of Showboat.

Hint: The film projects well, it’s in
colour and the sound is great, but!

No prizes given! of film for my Odd Film Formats Box! several seconds. So, I ended up with another piece out of frame splice, which was not noticed for has been copied from a 35 mm print which had an remainder of the films is fine. It would seem that it

8 REEL DEALS September 2017 then eventually the image was racked down and the starts out fine, but jumps out of frame at one spot, frame line should be on the perforation. The film the frame line. As we all know, with 16 mm the Answer: Check the location of the perforations to