Lumber Jack-Rabbit Lumber Jack-Rabbit Lumber Jack-Rabbit is a 1953 3-D "Looney Tunes" animated comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Bugs Bunny. With a story by Michael Maltese, the short was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26, 1953. It was notable as the first Warner Bros. cartoon short produced in 3-D. It premiered with the Warner Bros. 3-D feature "The Moonlighter" and the 3-D Lippert short, "Bandit Island". A narrator recalls the character Paul Bunyan and his exploits, and states that many people still question the giant's existence. The narrator then advises the viewer to ask "a certain
Br'er Rabbit also attributed the birth name "Riley" to Br'er Rabbit. Harris heard these tales in Georgia. Very similar versions of the same stories were recorded independently at the same time by the folklorist Alcée Fortier in southern Louisiana, where the Rabbit character was known as "Compair Lapin" in Creole. Enid Blyton, the English writer of children's fiction, retold the stories for children. Although Joel Chandler Harris collected materials for his famous series of books featuring the character Br'er Rabbit in the 1870s, the Br'er Rabbit cycle had been recorded earlier among the Cherokees: The "tar baby" story was printed in an