Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr. Bug Goes to Town, also known as Hoppity Goes to Town and Bugville, is an animated feature produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941. It was originally meant to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlincks The Life of the Bee, but the Fleischers were unable to get the rights to the book, and the studio came up with its own story inspired by The Life of the Bee instead. The film was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer. The animation was directed by Willard Bowsky, Shamus Culhane, H.C. Ellison, Thomas Johnson, Graham Place, Stanley Quackenbush, David Tendlar and Myron Waldman. It featured four songs Were the Couple in the Castle, Katy Did, Katy Didnt, and Ill Dance at Your Wedding Honey Dear by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, and Boy Oh Boy by Sammy Timberg and Loesser.

Insect houses are being flattened by their feet, and are also often burned by cast away cigar butts and matches. Old Mr Bumble and his beautiful daughter Honey Hoppitys childhood sweetheart are in grave danger of losing their Honey Shop to this threat.To compound their problems, devious insect property magnate C. Bagley Beetle has romantic designs on Honey Bee himself, and hopes, with the help of his henchmen Swat the Fly and Smack the Mosquito, to force Bumble to give him her hand in marriage. ........

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