des Nibelungen' without hearing, in their own minds, 'Kill da wabbit...kill da wabbit.'" Watt continues, "While classical music aficionados may be offended by that fact, I'm okay with it. More than okay with it." He then describes a past event he had organized and held at a Toronto movie theater, where he presented a selection of Chuck Jones' cartoons. He also describes the audience's reaction to seeing the shorts on the "big screen", including What's Opera, Doc?: Such reactions to "the Wagnerian mini epic" a half century after its release once again attest to the cartoon's unique composition and appeal, qualities that were even recognized as "special" in 1957 by some film-industry publications. For example, the Philadelphia-based journal Motion Picture Exhibitor, which in 1957 had a readership composed largely of theater owners and managers, reviewed the short in August that year and rated it "excellent". The Exhibitor then prophetically observed, "This is far above the usual run of animated cartoons and should find special favor in art houses, believe it or not." Addition to National Film Registry and the short's historical rankings In 1992, the United States Library of Congress deemed What's Opera, Doc? "'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'" and selected it for induction to the National Film Registry, making it the first short cartoon to receive that honor. Two more Warner Bros. cartoons were later inducted into the registry: Duck Amuck in 1999 and One Froggy Evening in 2003. Their inclusion made Chuck Jones the only animator with three shorts thus recognized. What's Opera, Doc? in 1994 ranked number one on a list of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time. The list, compiled by animation historian Jerry Beck, was the result of surveying and evaluating the opinions of 1,000 professional animators. In 2023, the short has an 8.3 positive rating on the online database IMDb, tying it with Rabbit of Seville (1950) as the third highest-rated releases among the large number of Warner Bros. cartoons profiled on that platform. The studio's productions Duck Amuck (1953) and One Froggy Evening (1955) rank number one and two respectively on IMDb. Home media DVD: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie DVD: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD: The Essential Bugs Bunny Blu-ray: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection iTunes: Bugs Bunny, Vol. 1 (paired with Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid) Xbox Live Marketplace: October 23,