Rabbit Fire Animation Professionals". Its 1952 sequel, "Rabbit Seasoning", made the actual list at number 30. The style, setup, and plot of "Rabbit Fire" were adapted into the opening sequence of Warner Bros.' 2003 film "". The "non sequitur" elephant character based on Joe Besser was the inspiration for Horatio the Elephant, a recurring character on PBS' "Sesame Street". The Elephant from "The Major Lied 'Til Dawn" reappeared, but redesigned. This cartoon is available on the "," Disc 2, and "The Essential Bugs Bunny", Disc 1. Rabbit Fire Rabbit Fire is a 1951 "Looney Tunes" (reissued as a 1960 Blue Ribbon "Merrie
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Universal Studios wanted to get into the cartoon business and needed a cartoon character of its own. So Disney's distributor Charles Mintz told Disney and Iwerks to create a new character they could sell to Universal. Wanting to make cartoons with an all-animated look, Disney signed a contract with Universal Studios leading to the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Universal's first cartoon series. Work on both the character and series began soon after Disney moved his studio to Hyperion Avenue. Disney chose to make the character a rabbit since there were already two popular animated cats at the