Always felt pity for this fellow. A Winter storm raging, nothing to eat, then a naive bunny arrives at the door...

A definite heart-tugger, to be sure. And one of the few cartoons where you actually see a wolf catch something of a break.

The art is very good and adding some realism to the wolf with the very detailed paw. But in animation they needed to save time and not go over budget. It was cheaper for Friz at Warners to use those 3 fingered gloves on their wolves.

That was actually one of the big problems Harman-Ising had at MGM in the 1930s. They spent enormous amounts of money in making spectacular animation (see, e.g., the roof tile sequence in "A Rainy Day" or some of the sequences in "To Spring" and "The Field Mouse"), though in many cases (perhaps not "The Hungry Wolf") it didn't serve the story. Harman-Ising went bankrupt in the late 30s because of budget overruns, and it contributed mightily to the instability at MGM's cartoon studio in the late 1930s and the very start of the 1940s, until Hanna/Barbera emerged and Avery was headhunted in.

Yep. And Tex wasn't worried about very fuzzy or furry animation. Although I prefer his 40's cartoons, his 1950's cartoons are still funny. It was probably on Tralfaz that I saw an early newspaper review of Huck and Yogi complimenting Hanna-Barbara for not using extraneous action. I loved those cartoons in the late 50's and early 60's. And the commercials gave me a taste for some Kellogs Cereal! People liked that limited animation!

I think Rudolf Ising received the commission of Major for the Army's First Motion Picture Unit to make training films during WW2.

He did. I've seen a gag drawing relating to that. Harman did one of the very late Snafu shorts (the one with TARFU), which was among the last completed projects in animation he did.

*Notes  bullet crow's and  EOCostello's comments....wow...I didn't even know that. Interesting...

Now the poor sunnuvagun is gonna need a Bromo! I wonder what kind of drumsticks and bones those are? Ahh, they have plenty of Bunnies!

I've actually never seen this one before. Maybe my local channels (e.g., WTIC Hartford 3) couldn't afford the MGM rentals.

I don't remember any Connecticut stations carrying these cartoons, at least in the 1970s; WTIC I would expect would have been able to afford it, what with the deep pockets of the Travelers behind it, and later, Post-Newsweek. The non-Tom and Jerry MGM cartoons seemed, in general, to get the short end until at least the time of the Cartoon Network.

Though in a serious setting--starvation and a raging blizzard--there's a silly gag that you'd miss if you blinked: Momma rabbit goes outside into the storm and her skirt blows up revealing a red flannel union suit. LOL