Studio: Fleischer Studios (Color Classics)
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Produced by: Max Fleischer
Short Synopsis
Two rabbits are to be married, and the whole rabbit warren turns out for the wedding. The film follows the preparations and the ceremony in the manner of a society wedding: the bride is dressed by her bridesmaids, the groom is fussed over, the guests arrive in their finery, the rabbit minister takes his place, and a choir of small rabbits sings. The ceremony proceeds with the usual mishaps, a nervous groom, a lost ring, a tearful mother, and the couple are married and sent off on their honeymoon in a shower of carrots, with the warren dancing behind them. The film is a wedding set to music, with no villain and no conflict, and its interest lies in the rabbit society it invents, with the Fleischers' habit of turning every animal custom into a human one.
Why It Matters
- The rabbit wedding is the Color Classics at their most purely pretty, a Valentine's Day release built on costume and ceremony, and Myron Waldman's rabbits, soft and round, are the clearest sign of the studio's drift toward Disney's manner in these years; the wedding-march sequence uses the stereoptical process for the church interior.
- Its copyright lapsed under NTA with most of the Color Classics, and it is public domain in the United States. Reliable production notes beyond the credits are thin, and the account above is drawn from the film itself.
Notes and Trivia
- Released for Valentine's Day 1937, two days before the holiday.
- Edward Nolan had animated Felix the Cat in the 1920s.
- See also: Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936), Chicken a la King (1937), Hawaiian Birds (1936).
