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What’s Opera, Doc?

animated film by Jones [1957]

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What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)—an animated masterpiece which cast Bugs and Elmer Fudd in the roles of Brunhild and Siegfried in a hilariously tweaked adaptation of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung—was the first cartoon short to be inducted into the National Film Registry of…
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…involving a singing frog; and What’s Opera, Doc? (1957), a brilliant compression of Richard Wagner’s 14-hour The Ring of the Nibelung into six minutes. Jones is also noted for such daring minimalist efforts as High Note (1960), featuring animated musical notes, and The Dot and the Line (1965), the tale…
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