Sunday 14 October 2012

Lost Ending Available...

Upon the new release of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 2 - its now been proven that the original 'lost' ending of 'Hare-Um Scare-Um' is now in the actual cartoon itself which is complete. David Gerstein discovered the lost ending of a couple of years back. It was a theatrical edit from the beginning and it was likely to be removed since its too similar to the Daffy Duck and Egghead opening.

At least there is a copy of it existing on YouTube but the video has been filmed by a viewer with the DVD. Looks like the 'Platinum Collection' is a real treat for fans but however; STILL - despite it containing the original credits to A Horsefly Fleas, and this original ending and also 10 new cartoons restored - the rest...I already have and I'm quite happy with what I have.

Hopefully somebody will post the complete version of it on YouTube from a computer and perhaps I could use it by the time when I come to reviewing the cartoon (as I'm currently still reviewing 1938 cartoons and am a year away of reviewing this cartoon. The lost ending ends the rumour of the "heads rolling over the hills" as it is more or less, a rip-off to the ending of 'Daffy Duck and Egghead' and it extends my thoughts of Ben Hardaway copying Avery.

Enjoy...

5 comments:

  1. To be fair, Ben Hardaway was CREDITED for story on "Daffy Duck and Egghead"

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    1. Actually, according to Dave Monahan in a interview; the story credits in the 1937-38 season were rotated and the story guys were put in groups. Hardaway probably did work on that cartoon but other guys would have contributed as well.

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  2. Well, Hardaway's rabbit character IS Daffy Duck in a rabbit costume...

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  3. Sorry, but I cannot view the video as it is private..:(

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