Old Cartoons and All That Junk
Today’s Birdbrain Week Cartoon, “Scrap Happy Daffy” is one of those chest swelling WW II era items — Daffy Duck pushes civilian scrap and junk drives. We not only get Daffy in his normal everyday visage, but ‘Superduck’ too, as well as a whole host of funny looking duck ancestors (oh, and Adolf Hiltler stops by for one of his occasional animated appearances.) The mallard’s persistent lisp doesn’t prevent him from delivering a snappy patter song early in the proceedings.
“Scrap Happy Daffy” was directed by Frank Tashlin in 1943 —pretty late for a theatrically released black and white cartoon. Interestingly, both Warners and Columbia would let their background men go nuts with non-literal, stylized scenics in these late b/w efforts — what do you think of Daffy’s scribbly looking pile of junk?
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