Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dave Fleischer Animation directors: Willard Bowsky James Culhane H.C. Ellison Thomas Johnson Graham Place Stan Quackenbush David Tendlar Myron Waldman
Screenplay by	Dan Gordon Tedd Pierce Isadore Sparber Graham Place Bob Wickersham William Turner Carl Meyer Cal Howard
Story by	Dave Fleischer Dan Gordon Tedd Pierce Isadore Sparber
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Kenny Gardner Gwen Williams Jack Mercer Tedd Pierce Carl Meyer Stan Freed Pauline Loth
Music by	Leigh Harline (score) Frank Loesser (lyrics) Hoagy Carmichael (songs) Sammy Timberg (songs)
Production companies	Paramount Pictures Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 5, 1941 (1941-12-05) (premiere)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1 million
Box office	$241,000

Mr. Bug Goes to Town (also known as Hoppity Goes to Town and Bugville) is an American animated Technicolor feature film produced by Fleischer Studios, previewed by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941, and released in California and New York City in February 1942.^[1][2] The film was originally intended to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but Paramount was unwilling to purchase the rights from Samuel Goldwyn, and instead developed an original modern story loosely inspired by the book.^[3]

The film was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer. It features the songs "We're the Couple in the Castle", "Katy Did, Katy Didn't", "I'll Dance at Your Wedding (Honey Dear)" by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, and "Boy Oh Boy" by Sammy Timberg and Loesser. It was Paramount's last animated feature film until Charlotte's Web in 1973.