Disney Shorts - Funny Little Bunnies

"A Silly Symphony"

Synopsis

This Silly Symphony gives a look inside the magical land of Easter Bunnies and shows how they prepare eggs and candies for delivery.

Credits

Director : Wilfred Jackson

Animation

Wolfgang Reitherman

Art Babbitt

Videos

United States

Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions 2 : How the Best Was Won : 1933-1960

Italy

Gold Editions : Cartoni Animati da Oscar

Silly Symphonies Volume 1

Laserdiscs

United States

How the Best was Won 1933-1960

Japan

The Three Little Pigs

DVD

Disney Treasures : Silly Symphonies

Region 1 : United States

Region 2 : France

Region 2 : Germany

Region 2 : Italy

Region 2 : Sweden

Region 2 : United Kingdom

Walt Disney's Fables : Volume 5

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #18 : A Bunch of Silly Symphonies

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ratio : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by United Artists Pictures

Comments

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From Jenna :

I barely remember that short, but I really liked it when I was little. Does anyone have any screen captures or know where I can find some?

From Jerry Edwards :

This is the only Easter-themed Disney cartoon that I can think of. I love the imaginative ways the bunnies prepare the Easter eggs and candies. A fun, fascinating, very colorful short.

From Henry :

Thanks a million for providing this opportunity. I was ten years old. I saw it in a Los Angeles movie house in 1937. The most delightful cartoon for young ones I've ever seen. Nothing scary not even the egg paint-shooting by the soldiers. And what wonderful paint colors, too. I made a deal with a video-store manager. His copy of this (Silly Symphonies, I guess) hadn't been rented for a year. He sold me the tape for-----$6. Can you imagine I'd come upon the tape a year or two earlier but only for rent. Here now it was mine, all mine. MY GRANDSON CAME OVER FROM EUROPE AND WATCHED IT SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT TIMES! Again, heartfelt thanks for giving people like me a forum. I absolutely rate this a 10 in your system.

From Deb :

I caught this short a couple of years ago on the Disney Channel. It is delightful. Very colorful and charming. The way the bunnies paint the eggs is clever.

From Pam :

My kids 3 and 5 -two boys who love very action oriented cartoons (though we eschew the violent ones) ADORE this cartoon! No matter how many times they've seen it, they are completely fascinated with the processes the bunnies go through to make the Easter goodies! I love this one too! Really clever and wonderful! Another one along the same lines that they can't get enough of is Fleischer's "Bunny Mooning" - two bunnies getting married and the preparations they and all the guests make for the big day!

From Amanda :

I love the Funny Little Bunnies. Ever since I was little my mom would rent "How the Best was Won: 1933-1960" every Easter just to see the bunnies paint the Easter eggs. My favorite was always the checkerboard egg. Now that I know it is available on a dvd, I will be sure to go out and get it.

From Ryan :

This was Disney's only Easter cartoon. Some of the highlights of it include hens laying eggs in rhythm, a rabbit stamping a heart "buttprint" on the eggs, and two blind rabbits weaving a basket. One of them reaches for a straw to weave into the basket, but cannot see, so he takes off his glasses, spots it, and picks it up.

A beautiful cartoon to view, but not among my favorites.

From Per Nilsson :

This is another 'conveyor belt' cartoon, just like Santa's Workshop. It's very cleverly made and I really like the way everything makes sense. I just sit and smile while the whole process of producing Easter eggs is shown. Some people might say it's boring, but I like it!

From Marit van der Hoek :

I really loved this cartoon when I was young. I used to make drawings of some scenes, they really fascinated me. Even now, when I'm older, I still like to watch it (I've recorded it on a vhs.) The song, the animation itself, etc... are all wonderful!

From Gijs Grob :

'Cute Little Bunnies' would have been a better title for this short, for the bunnies are very cute, not funny. In fact, "Funny Little Bunnies' is so cute it can only have been meant for children. It makes one wonder what movies it was supposed to support in the theaters (surely no grim gangster thriller). Because everybody copied Disney at that time, other studios, like Fleischer, Walter Lantz and Harman and Ising (at MGM) were copying this 'new cuteness' as well. This resulted in a spread of cute (and severely unfunny) cartoons in the thirties. One is therefore particularly thankful that in the late thirties Tex Avery (at Warner Brothers) restored nonsense, wackiness and absurdism in the animated cartoon. These qualities Disney sometimes seemed to have forgotten during his pursuit for greater naturalism and beauty. (Notice how, for example, 'Funny Little Bunnies' uses animation to tell a story that cannot be told in live action, but how it tries to tell this story in the most conventional, 'live action-like' way).

From Baruch Weiss :

Truly a beautiful cartoon to view. I have no complaints about this one!

From Ben :

It's a lovely film, it's a catchy song and it's great fun watching it backwards!