Porky's Hare Hunt is a 1938 animated short movie directed by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway and Cal Dalton, which starred Porky Pig as a hunter whose prey is Happy Rabbit - later to become known as Bugs Bunny. The rabbit's hyperactive personality and laughing voice provided by Mel Blanc predated 1940's Knock Knock which introduced audiences to Woody Woodpecker, created for the Lantz studio by Hardaway after his departure from the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Brothers studio.