Home › Entities › animated_short_film › What's Opera, Doc?

What's Opera, Doc?

1957 animated short film in the Merrie Melodies series directed by Chuck Jones
Movie animated_short_film Q2635222
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

What's Opera, Doc?

Summary

What's Opera, Doc? is an animated short film[1]. What's Opera, Doc? ranks in the top 0.61% of animated_short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,562 views/month, #9 of 1,467).[2]

Key Facts

  • What's Opera, Doc?'s instance of is recorded as animated short film[3].
  • What's Opera, Doc? was directed by Chuck Jones[4].
  • Michael Maltese wrote the screenplay for What's Opera, Doc?[5].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s composer is recorded as Richard Wagner[6].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s composer is recorded as Milt Franklyn[7].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s genre is musical film[8].
  • What's Opera, Doc? was produced by Eddie Selzer[9].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s part of the series is recorded as Merrie Melodies[10].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s collection is recorded as Museum of Modern Art[11].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s production company is recorded as Warner Bros. Entertainment[12].
  • What's Opera, Doc? is part of National Film Registry[13].
  • The original language of What's Opera, Doc? was English[14].
  • What's Opera, Doc? was distributed by video on demand[15].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s color is recorded as color[16].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s country of origin is recorded as United States[17].
  • What's Opera, Doc? was published on July 6, 1957[18].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s voice actor is recorded as Mel Blanc[19].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s voice actor is recorded as Arthur Q. Bryan[20].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s distributed by is recorded as Warner Bros. Entertainment[21].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s distributed by is recorded as HBO Max[22].
  • Der Ring des Nibelungen inspired What's Opera, Doc?[23].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s film editor is recorded as Treg Brown[24].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "What's Opera, Doc?"}[25].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+6.49'}[26].
  • What's Opera, Doc?'s fabrication method is recorded as traditional animation[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

What's Opera, Doc? was produced by Eddie Selzer[9]. What's Opera, Doc? was directed by Chuck Jones[4]. Michael Maltese wrote the screenplay for What's Opera, Doc?[5].

Publication

What's Opera, Doc? was published on July 6, 1957[18]. The original language of What's Opera, Doc? was English[14]. What's Opera, Doc?'s genre is musical film[8]. What's Opera, Doc? is part of National Film Registry[13]. Its part of the series is recorded as Merrie Melodies[10]. What's Opera, Doc? was distributed by video on demand[15].

Subject and Themes

What's Opera, Doc?'s part of the series is recorded as Merrie Melodies[10].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Der Ring des Nibelungen inspired What's Opera, Doc?[23].

Why It Matters

What's Opera, Doc? ranks in the top 0.61% of animated_short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,562 views/month, #9 of 1,467).[2] What's Opera, Doc? has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] What's Opera, Doc? is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Chuck Jones Museum of Modern Art Richard Wagner United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). What's Opera, Doc?. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/what-s-opera-doc
MLA “What's Opera, Doc?.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/what-s-opera-doc.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_what-s-opera-doc_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{What's Opera, Doc?}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/what-s-opera-doc}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): What's Opera, Doc? — https://4ort.xyz/entity/what-s-opera-doc (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/what-s-opera-doc · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Grey ghost · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Production company → —
    Publication date → +1957-07-06T00:00:00Z
    Uses → —
    Part of → —
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P161]]: no value"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.