Transylvania 6-5000 (1963 film)
| Transylvania 6-5000 | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny) series | |
Bloodcount: I am a vampire!
Bugs: Oh, yeah? Well, abacadabra! I'm an umpire! |
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| Directed by |
Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director) |
| Produced by |
David H. DePatie (uncredited) |
| Story by | John Dunn |
| Voices by |
Mel Blanc Ben Frommer Julie Bennett |
| Music by | Bill Lava |
| Animation by | Bob Bransford Tom Ray Ken Harris Richard Thompson |
| Layouts by | Bob Givens |
| Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | November 30, 1963 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:00 |
| Language | English |
Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) is a Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny. It is notable as the last original Bugs Bunny short Jones made for Warner Bros. Cartoons before leaving for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to found his own studio, Sib Tower 12 Productions. It was his second-to-last cartoon at Warner Bros. before moving to MGM, and the second-to-last Warner cartoon in 1963.
Bugs demonstrates how to handle a pesky vampire with six simple magic incantations. The title is a pun on "PEnnsylvania 6-5000", a song made famous by Glenn Miller and referring to the old telephone number system of an "exchange" of two letters plus a digit, instead of a three-digit exchange (i.e. PE6-5000 vs. TR6-5000). Voiced by: Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Ben Frommer as Count Bloodcount, and Julie Bennett as Agatha and Emily, the two-headed vulture.
Bugs, as is his custom, is traveling by tunneling underground—and runs straight into a tree. He heads for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as he observes "these Pennsylvania hardwoods ain't too soft!" , but he doesn't immediately notice that a sign nailed to the tree reads "Pittsburghe, Transylvania". He asks a two-headed female vulture (Agatha and Emily) for directions to "Pittsboig" when he realizes that he's not reached the Steel City, but Agatha and Emily are busy talking about eating him. Bugs leaves them to it, sees an old castle nearby, mistakes it for a motel and calmly approaches it. Upon ringing a skull/chime doorbell (playing "The Hearse Song") Bugs meets a vampire, who introduces himself as Count Blood Count and invites him in. Although Bugs is only looking for a telephone to call his travel agency, the Count leads him to a guest room beckoning him to rest, informing him that "Rest is good for the blood.".
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