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Birds Are Prey

Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre

Birds Are Prey (1950-60). Photofest.

(US 1950–60, 80 min., 35mm)

Warner Bros. Animation. One of the enduring Warner Bros. animation devices is to put a fowl friend in trouble with a predator. Here, the Road Runner, Tweety Bird, and Foghorn Leghorn evade evisceration in a program of shorts that include: Home, Tweet Home (Friz Freleng, 1950), Tweety’s S.O.S. (Freleng, 1951), A Street Cat Named Sylvester (Freleng, 1953), Little Boy Boo (Robert McKimson, 1954), Dog Pounded (Freleng, 1954), Ready.. Set.. Zoom! (Chuck Jones, 1955), Tugboat Granny (Freleng, 1956), Tweety and the Beanstalk (Freleng, 1957), Greedy for Tweety (Freleng, 1957), Whoa, Be-Gone! (Jones, 1958), Fastest with the Mostest (Jones, 1960), and a dance-happy Porky Pig in his last solo cartoon, The Wearing of the Grin (Jones, 1951).

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

About This Series

Warner Bros. Animation

Ninety years after its beginnings, the animation of the Warner Bros. studio still resonates with audiences today. The characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and others are familiar to everyone, but the artists behind these influential works are sometimes forgotten, as is the intense amount of labor required to bring these characters to the screen. In connection with the exhibition The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons, opening at the George Eastman Museum on June 28, the Dryden Theatre presents three programs of shorts from the peak years of Warner Bros. animation, highlighting not only our beloved characters, but some of the best artists who brought them to life.

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