Movie: Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons

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    Leonard Maltin introduces us to and takes us back to a theatre showing Wartime cartoon shorts and explains how Bugs and Daffy and the gang, through a collection/sampling of 11 cartoon shorts which served the war effort.

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    1989-03-07

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