Which Is Witch

{{Infobox film

|image=Which is Witch Lobby Card.PNG

|caption=Lobby card

|producer= Edward Selzer (uncredited){{citation|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gIyH_DLYhoIC&pg=PA54 |title=Forbidden Animation |author=Karl F. Cohen|year=2004|publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786420322 }}

|animator=Arthur Davis
Gerry Chiniquy
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
A.C. Gamer
(effects animation)

name=MM>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtHYGDwTB7cC&pg=PA226 |title=Movies Magnificent: 150 Must-See Cinema Classics|author=John Reid |year=2005|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9781411650671}}

|layout_artist=Hawley Pratt

|background_artist=Paul Julian

|starring=Mel Blanc

|music=Carl W. Stalling

|studio=Warner Bros. Cartoons

|distributor=Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation

|released={{Film date|1949|12|03|US|ref1=}}

|color_process=Technicolor

|runtime=7 minutes

|language=English

}}

Which Is Witch is a Looney Tunes cartoon released by Warner Bros. in 1949, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Tedd Pierce.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=205}} It was released on December 3, 1949, and features Bugs Bunny.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/60/mode/2up |pages=60–61}} The cartoon has been taken out of circulation in recent years due to racially insensitive depictions of Africans.{{citation | last1=Cohen | first1= Karl F. | title=Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America | chapter= Racism and Resistance:Stereotypes in Animation| year=2004 | publisher=McFarland & Company| isbn=978-0786420322| page=54| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=gIyH_DLYhoIC&pg=PA36 }}

Plot

In Dark Africa, Bugs Bunny runs afoul of Dr. I.C. Spots, the diminutive witch doctor of a nearby tribe who wants to use the rabbit in a potion. Realizing he's about to be cooked, Bugs flees from the doctor, disguising himself as a native. The doctor sees through the disguise and chases Bugs to the river, where the bunny makes for a nearby ferry boat. Dr. Spots follows, but is swallowed by a crocodile. Bugs beats up the reptile and turns it into a crocodile-skin bag, with the tiny witch doctor inside dressed in crocodile shoes.

Reception

The Film Daily reviewed the film on January 1, 1950: "When Dr. Ugh, Witch Doctor extraordinary for a tribe of little people, decides it's time to leave. The jungle medico learns he can't split the hare, and B.B. emerges victorious once more. Wonderful cartoon."{{cite book |last1=Sampson |first1=Henry T. |title=That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 |date=1998 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0810832503 |url=https://archive.org/details/thatsenoughfolks0000samp/page/127/mode/2up |page=127}}