# Bugs Bunny - Any Bonds Today?

The 90-second cartoon, commissioned by the Treasury and now in the public domain , was designed to encourage movie theater audiences to buy defense bonds and stamps. Its title card identifies it as Leon Schlesinger Presents Bugs Bunny , \[ 1 \] but it is more widely known as Any Bonds Today? It was neither considered a Looney Tunes nor Merrie Melodies cartoon and was not part of the Bugs Bunny series (but a spin-off). Bob Clampett wrote and directed the film, which started production in late November 1941 and was completed eight days after the attack on Pearl Harbor . \[ 7 \] According to an article of The Hollywood Reporter , it took three weeks to complete. Counting from the drawing of the first sketch to the shipping of the first print. \[ 1 \] The paper reported that production would typically last two months. It was reportedly produced "free of charge". \[ 1 \] In it, Bugs Bunny sings a portion of Berlin's song against a patriotic backdrop, at one point going into a blackface parody of Al Jolson . He sings "Any Stamps Today" For the song's last refrain, he is joined by Porky Pig, in Navy uniform, and Elmer Fudd, in Army garb, who both make a cameo in the cartoon. (Description source: Wikipedia , CC BY-SA) Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_oc5hQt-A

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 1941
- By: Warner Bros. & U.S. Treasury Dept. Defense Savings Staff
- Genres: Animation, War, Propaganda
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AnyBondsToday)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/AnyBondsToday?play=1)