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''Mr. Bug Goes to Town'', also known as ''Hoppity Goes to Town'' and ''Bugville'',〔(Released as ''Bugville'' ), Region 1 DVD, 2008: AllMovies.com website. Retrieved on February 15, 2008. 〕 is an animated feature produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941. It was originally meant to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's ''The Life of the Bee'', but the Fleischers were unable to get the rights to the book, and the studio came up with its own story inspired by ''The Life of the Bee'' instead. The film was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer. The animation was directed by Willard Bowsky, Shamus Culhane, H.C. Ellison, Thomas Johnson, Graham Place, Stanley Quackenbush, David Tendlar and Myron Waldman. And featured four songs We're the Couple in the Castle, Katy Did, Katy Didn't, and I'll Dance at Your Wedding (Honey Dear) by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, and Boy Oh Boy by Sammy Timberg and Loesser. ==Plot outline== The plot describes the return of Hoppity the Grasshopper, after a period spent away, to an American city (Manhattan, New York) He finds that all is not as he left it, and his good insect friends (who live in the "lowlands" just outside the garden which belongs to a songwriter and his wife) are now under threat from the "human ones", who are trampling through the broken down fence which prefaces the property, using it as a shortcut. Insect houses are being flattened by their feet, and are also often burned by cast away cigar butts and matches. Old Mr Bumble and his beautiful daughter Honey (Hoppity's childhood sweetheart) are in grave danger of losing their Honey Shop to this threat. To compound their problems, devious insect "property magnate" C. Bagley Beetle has romantic designs on Honey Bee himself, and hopes, with the help of his henchmen Swat the Fly and Smack the Mosquito, to force Bumble to give him her hand in marriage. But Hoppity discovers that the Songwriter and his wife (whose favorite hobby was gardening) was waiting for a check from the Famous Music publishing company for the songwriter's composition "Castle In The Air" but C. Bagley Beetle and his henchmen "steals" the letter containing check and kidnapping Hoppity as well and sealing him in the envelope after realizing that Hoppity was going to expose C. Bagley Beetle's nefarious plan to the Lowlanders. As the planned wedding was going on Smack and Swat discovered that the survey crew for a construction company erecting a skyscraper was on the property of the former home of the Songwriter (now foreclosed by the property owners) and C. Bagley Beetle's property where the Lowlanders moved in. As both Swat and Smack tried unsuccessfully to stop the wedding a weight from a surveyor's builder level rips through the chapel causing the Lowlanders to flee in terror back to the Lowlands not realizing that the Lowlands was endangered by the construction crew. During the chaos C. Bagley Beetle and his Henchmen try to kidnap Honey but were thwarted by Hoppity who escapes after the construction crew "liberated" him and still in the envelope fought (with a little help from Mr. Bumble) and defeated C.Bagley Beetle and his henchmen. Afterwards Hoppity told the citizens of C. Bagley Beetle's nefarious plan on stealing the check and hiding it realized that they were still endangered and overhearing the songwriter and his wife about still hoping that the publishers bought his song and hoping to built a penthouse in the new skyscraper. Hoppity dragging the letter containing the check took cover hiding under a mailbox and seeing someone picking up the letter and taking it realizing to his relief that it was the mailman who took the letter containing the check. The check finally arrived to the songwriter's home and his song Castle In The Air became a successful hit during the time Hoppity lead a exodus from the Lowlands with the Lowlanders to the top of the skyscraper but discovered that it was barren, as Hoppity was ridiculed by Mr Creeper, Buzz and Mrs Ladybug's twin sons Anthros and Mugatroyd discovered the "Garden of Paradise" and the new penthouse suite of the songwriter and his wife and Hoppity, Honey and the rest of the Lowlanders lived there happily ever after in their new home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mr. Bug Goes to Town」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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