The Bear That Wasn't
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The Bear That Wasn't is a 1946 children's picture book written and illustrated by filmmaker and Looney Tunes alumnus Frank Tashlin.
Cover of the first edition of the book
The Bear That Wasn't (film)
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The Bear That Wasn't is a 1967 American animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and based on the children's book The Bear That Wasn't by Frank Tashlin. It is the final cartoon produced and release
The Bear That Wasn't
…audio version was issued by MGM Records in 1947, narrated by Keenan Wynn. In 1967, Tashlin's former Warner Bros. Cartoons colleague Chuck Jones directed an animated short film based on the book for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Tashlin's book inspired Swiss writer Jörg Steiner to create his children's book Der Bär, der ein Bär bleiben…
"You are not a bear; you are a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat."