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| + | <big>A '''''Transylvania 6-5000''''' is a 1963 Warner Bros. short animated film which stars the famous rabbit character Bugs Bunny. It was directed by Chuck Jones and features the voices of Mel Blanc as Bugs, Ben Frommer as Count Bloodcount and Julie Bennett as the two-headed vulture. In the cartoon, Bugs travels to Transylvania and gets the better of a vampire. </big> |
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| β | <big>A '''Ouija board''' is the name generally used to refer to a device which is also known as a '''spirit board''' or a '''talking board'''. It consists of a heart shaped pointer, called a planchette, and a flat board with the letters A to Z, the numbers zero to nine and the word "good-bye" printed on it. The words "hello", "yes" and "no" are sometimes printed on the board also, as well as decorative images. The board is intended to be used by a group of people who each place one finger on the planchette. The planchette is then supposed to move across the board and spell out messages. The messages are supposed to come from spirits of the dead, although scientists hold that the participants are really moving the planchette themselves unconsciously and involuntarily, making it spell out what they are thinking.</big> |
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| + | <big>A significant amunt of footage from ''Transylvania 6-5000'' also appears in ''Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special'', a 1978 Halloween TV special.</big> |
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| β | <big>Regardless of their true origins, messages conveyed via Ouija boards are often frightening, upsetting or insulting and cause a great deal of distress to those who read them.</big> |
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| + | <big>The cartoon's title is a punning reference to the piece of music "Pennsylvania 6-5000" first recorded by Glenn Miller in 1940.</big> |
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A Transylvania 6-5000 is a 1963 Warner Bros. short animated film which stars the famous rabbit character Bugs Bunny. It was directed by Chuck Jones and features the voices of Mel Blanc as Bugs, Ben Frommer as Count Bloodcount and Julie Bennett as the two-headed vulture. In the cartoon, Bugs travels to Transylvania and gets the better of a vampire.
A significant amunt of footage from Transylvania 6-5000 also appears in Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, a 1978 Halloween TV special.
The cartoon's title is a punning reference to the piece of music "Pennsylvania 6-5000" first recorded by Glenn Miller in 1940.
The full radio play The War of the Worlds, originally broadcast on October 30, 1938
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