Jan Kounen directed Le dernier chaperon rouge (1996 The Last Riding Hood, literal translation), a French fantasy musical short film starring Emmanuelle Béart.The film features three original songs, and was written by George Bloom and produced by Mark Taylor. Jetlag Productions' animated film Little Red Riding Hood (1995) adapts the classic fairy tale and at the same time adds its own original twists and additions to the story to stretch the plotline to their regular 48-minute length.One of the major themes of the series is a sort of pre-adolescent love triangle between Chacha and her two male friends, one of whom is a werewolf, the other a boy-witch. The Japanese children's anime television series Akazukin Chacha features the eponymous heroine Chacha who is visually reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood ('akazukin' relates to her red hood and cape).The anime television series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1987) features Little Red Riding Hood in one episode.My Favorite Fairy Tales ( Sekai Dōwa Anime Zenshū) (1986), an anime television anthology, has a 12-minute adaptation.Goldilocks and the Three Bears/Rumpelstiltskin/Little Red Riding Hood/Sleeping Beauty (1984), animated direct-to-video featurette produced by Lee Mendelson Film Productions.Jay Ward's Fractured Fairy Tales had a few spoofs of the tale, one of which involved a basket that exploded just before the bearer could say "goodies".A few Loopy de Loop cartoons such as "Tale of a Wolf" feature Little Red Riding Hood.Another Sylvester parody is Little Red Rodent Hood (1952).In one cartoon comic version, Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955), Little Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Tweety Bird while the villains are played by a Wolf and Sylvester, who almost come to blows over who is going to play "Grandma". Early Bugs Bunny cartoons, such as Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944), utilize characters from fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood.Tex Avery also utilized the same cast and themes in a number of other cartoons in this series, such as Little Rural Riding Hood (1949), which set the story in the modern day and featured Red and the wolf as hillbillies.Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) recasts the story in an adult-oriented urban setting, with the suave, suited wolf howling after the night club singer Red.
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