Performance

What's Up, Doc?

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Screening at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens on January 8, 2026, *What’s Up, Doc?* revisits a mid-century Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson, built around the familiar chase-and-rivalry rhythms of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Released in 1950, it sits in the postwar moment when theatrical cartoons were still designed for big-city audiences and regular cinema programs. Its economy of movement and timing shows how Hollywood animation treated comic violence as choreography. NYC-specific premiere details are not firmly documented, but the film’s afterlife in New York repertory contexts has helped define how these shorts are studied today.