The Hound and the Rabbit

A squeaky-voiced bunny rabbit makes friends with a rather goofy, dachshund-looking dog. He introduces him to his bunny pals at a game of football and they all get along just swell. But a mean old fox lures the dog away and joins the game. He uses the opportunity to catch the rabbits for his stewpot. Will the dog return and save them all?

The folks at Harming-Ising were caught between a rock and a hard place. They wanted to compete with Disney, and so made a lot of overly cute movies with simple morals that pleased older people who had no sense of what children like. But the also occasionally wanted to do funny cartoons, but lacked the skewed-humor attitudes that rising cartoon directors like Freleng, Avery, and Tashlin had, stuff that appealed to children as well as adults. Here's a ime they tried the latter, but it sits in an uncomfortable uncanny valley between the two sorts of cartoon, satisfying neither audience.