The Tortoise and the Hare

Jan 5, 1935

0h 9m

★ 6.6

Hare stops to show off, and the slower Tortoise wins the race.

Overview

The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson. Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, The Tortoise and the Hare won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the influences for Bugs Bunny.

Genres

Animation

Family

Fantasy

Production Companies

Walt Disney Productions

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Cast

Toby Tortoise (voice) (uncredited)

Eddie Holden

Max Hare (voice) (uncredited)

Ned Norton

Starter (voice) (uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Miss Cottontail Girl (voice) (uncredited)

Marcellite Garner

Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)

Dorothy Compton

Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)

Beatrice Hagen

Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)

Mary Moder

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

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The Tortoise and the Hare

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