Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Gary Smith directs. Bruce Motyer cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 48-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 236 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
• 3Editor Bruce Motyer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 4Harry Anderson and Allyce Beasley and Jeff Bergman carry the top of the cast.
• 5IMDB entry: tt0099734 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 6Only 6 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing

Bruce Motyer

Runtime

48 min · 0h 48m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

NR

IMDB

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years (1990) ↗

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• 
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• 
  AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains

  2003 · ★ 7.8
• 
  AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends

  1999 · ★ 7.6
• 
  Streisand: Live in Concert 2006

  2009 · ★ 7.5
• 
  AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies

  2006 · ★ 7.3

Production companies

Who made it

• SM

  Smith-Hemion Productions

• 

  Warner Bros. Pictures

  US

Key crew

• Executive ProducerGary Smith
• Executive ProducerDwight Hemion
• ProducerGary H. Grossman
• Associate ProducerBill Bracken
• Music DirectorDennis McCarthy
• Art DirectionDebe Hale
• Lighting DesignJeff Calderon
• Lighting DesignJeff Engel
• Second Unit DirectorRon de Moraes
• EditorBruce Motyer
• EditorJohn F. Showalter
• Production ManagerTim Gaydos
• Production CoordinatorJohn Foy
• Production CoordinatorDavid Perler
• Animation DirectorGreg Ford
• Animation DirectorTerry Lennon
• Animation DirectorDarrell Van Citters

Release history · US

When it landed

• TV1990-05-09NR