| Tortoise Beats Hare | |
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| Directed by | Fred Avery |
| Story by | Dave Monahan |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Charles McKimson Robert McKimson Rev Chaney Sid Sutherland Rod Scribner Virgil Ross[1] |
| Backgrounds by | John Didrik Johnsen |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corp. |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:55 |
| Language | English |
Tortoise Beats Hare is a Merrie Melodies short film directed by Tex Avery and released on March 15, 1941.[2][3] The short, loosely based on Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare, stars Bugs Bunny and, in his first appearance, Cecil Turtle.
- ^ "Animator Breakdown: "Tortoise Beats Hare" (1941) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 114. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.