Bunny Dips Into Society

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Bunny Dips Into Society
Directed byWilfrid North
Written byK.W. Hood
StarringJohn Bunny
Earle Williams
Leah Baird
Distributed byVitagraph
Release date
  • May 17, 1913 (1913-05-17)
Running time
1,030 ft[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Bunny Dips Into Society, also known as Bunny and the Bunny Hug, is a short American silent comedy film.

Plot summary[edit]

A poor but gregarious Irish nightwatchman is falsely introduced as a count at a society ball. He proved to be very popular, especially with the ladies. In one sequence, Bunny performs a (at the time) new and popular dance, the Bunny Hug.

Release[edit]

Bunny Dips Into Society was released on May 17, 1913, in the United States, where it was presented as a split-reel with another Vitagraph comedy, Three to One. It was released in London on August 25, 1913,[2] and was still circulating on the British mainland in late February, 1914.[3] It accompanied Selig's production Wamba, a Child of the Jungle when that film screened in New Zealand.[4]

The film has survived and was presented, with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette, Volumes 3-4, July 9, 1913, p. 115-116, retrieved October 1, 2015
  2. ^ To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette, Volumes 3-4, July 9, 1913, p. 115-116, retrieved October 1, 2015
  3. ^ Barmouth & County Advertiser and District Weekly News. 28 February 1914. p 2. Retrieved 5 October 2015
  4. ^ Opera House Pictures. Poverty Bay Herald Volume XL, Issue 13234. 17 November 1913. p 7. Accessed 5 October 2015
  5. ^ MoMA: Class War: How the Other Half Lives Retrieved 10 October 2015

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