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Famous Cartoon Character Elmer Fudd was a Photographer

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10/20/2015
10/20/2015
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Last Updated on 10/20/2015 by Chris Gampat

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Before he went about hunting down that wascaly wabbit, famous Warner Bros. cartoon character Elmer Fudd was a hobbyist wildlife photographer. Like many people today, he was genuinely interested in capturing incredible images of wildlife in action. But back in 1939 when Elmer’s Candid Camera aired, he was going through significantly different problems than the photographers of today. While most photographers use digital cameras today and maybe a tripod or monopod, Elmer needed a tripod, camera, lens, film, flash powder, and lots more.

No matter what happened, it seemed like the animals didn’t want their picture taken.

The episode is pretty funny and very typical for the time: as it shows Elmer trying to capture a photo of an early Bugs Bunny (then billed as Happy Rabbit) and involves lots of slapstick humor–like the lens bellows being pulled really far back and then slinging inward to smack Elmer in the face. It shows that at one point Elmer was pretty peaceful and seriously just wanted to take pictures–but the rabbit turned him.

The episode is around 9 minutes long as is embedded right below.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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