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The Essential Daffy Duck
''The Essential Daffy Duck'' is a DVD set featuring cartoons focusing on Daffy Duck. It was released on November 1, 2011. Contents The contents are split over two discs. The first disc features 15 classic Daffy Duck shorts (14 of which were previously released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection sets or '' Frustrated Fowl'' plus his debut cartoon, ''Porky's Duck Hunt ''Porky's Duck Hunt'' is a 1937 Warner Bros. '' Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon was released on April 17, 1937, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, the latter making what is considered his first official appearance. Pl ...'', which makes its DVD debut). The second disc features more recent shorts and TV appearances. Disc 1 (*): Cartoon's opening music glitches at the beginning (the first second of the music is cut off). Disc 2 Special features * All-New Career Profile - ''Daffy Duck: Ridicule Is the Burden of Genius'' * 2 Vintage TV Programs: ** ''Daffy Duck's Easter Special'' ** ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, director, and painter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon, Animated Cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, and Porky Pig, among others. Jones started his career in 1933 alongside Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson at the Leon Schlesinger Production's Termite Terrace studio, where they created and developed the Looney Tunes characters. During the World War II, Second World War, Jones directed many of the ''Private Snafu'' (1943–1946) shorts which were shown to members of the United States military. After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started MGM Animation/Visual Arts, Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Fudd
Elmer J.''Hare Brush'' (1956) Fudd is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. '' Looney Tunes''/'' Merrie Melodies'' series and the archenemy of Bugs Bunny. He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs himself).Elmer Fudd at Don Markstein's Toonopedia Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. But it was evidenced that the true origins of Elmer was that he was actually created by Fred "Tex" Avery in 1937, as a "Running Gag" characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henery Hawk
Henery Hawk is an American cartoon character who appears in twelve comedy film shorts produced in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series. His first appearance is in the 1942 theatrical release ''The Squawkin' Hawk'', which was directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger. Henery's second screen appearance, one directed by Robert McKimson, is in ''Walky Talky Hawky'' (1946), which also features the characters Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg in their first cartoon roles. The last Warner Brothers theatrical short to showcase the little chickenhawk is the 1961 release '' Strangled Eggs'' in which he co-stars again with Foghorn Leghorn as well as with another popular character of that period, Miss Prissy. Following that production, Henery continued to be seen periodically in other animated presentations such as ''The Looney Tunes Show'' and ''Looney Tunes Cartoons''. Character biography Henery is a small, brown chickenhawk with a forelock of feathers. The you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvester (Looney Tunes)
Sylvester Pussycat, Sr. is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic Bicolor cat, tuxedo cat in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. Most of his appearances have him often chasing Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper. He appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age of American animation, lagging only behind superstars Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck. Three of his cartoons won Academy Awards, the most for any starring a Looney Tunes character: they are ''Tweetie Pie'', ''Speedy Gonzales (film), Speedy Gonzales'', and ''Birds Anonymous''. Animation history Development Sylvester predecessors appeared from 1939 to 1945. ''Naughty but Mice'' was the first, with the prototype appearing as a normal black cat. ''Notes to You'' was remade in color in one of Sylvester's cartoons, ''Back Alley Oproar''. ''The Hep Cat'' features another version, as well as ''Birdy and the Beast'', which features Tweety. Before Sylvester's appearance in the cartoons, Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
''The Scarlet Pumpernickel'' is a 1950 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' theatrical cartoon short, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The cartoon was released on March 4, 1950, and features Daffy Duck, along with a number of ''Looney Tunes'' stars, including the introduction of Melissa Duck. The title is a play on the 1905 novel ''The Scarlet Pimpernel''. In 1994 it was voted No. 31 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. Plot In a story within a story, Daffy Duck despairs to Warner Bros.' chief Jack L. Warner – whom he addresses, as most did, as "J.L." – being typecast in comedic roles is "killing me", that he is "dying" to do a dramatic part. He then pitches a script called ''The Scarlet Pumpernickel'', which he wrote under the name "Daffy Alexandre Dumas, Dumas Duck". The cartoon then intercuts between scenes in the story and Daffy's pitch, with him announcing the number of the page he is reading from; his script exceeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin The Martian
Marvin the Martian is an extraterrestrial character from Warner Bros.' ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoons. He frequently appears as a villain in cartoons and video games, and wears a helmet and skirt. The character has been voiced by Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen and Eric Bauza, among others. The character first appeared as an antagonist in the 1948 Bugs Bunny cartoon ''Haredevil Hare''. He went on to appear in four more cartoons produced between 1952 and 1963. Conception and creation Marvin's design was based on the Hoplite style of armor usually worn by the Roman god Mars. "That was the uniform that Mars wore — that helmet and skirt. We thought putting it on this ant-like creature might be funny. But since he had no mouth, we had to convey that he was speaking totally through his movements. It demanded a kind of expressive body mechanics." Marvin was never named in the original shorts – he was referred to as the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Dodgers In The 24½th Century
''Duck Dodgers in the th Century'' (spoken as "twenty-fourth-and-a-half") is a 1953 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The cartoon was released on July 25, 1953, and stars Daffy Duck as space hero Duck Dodgers, Porky Pig as his assistant, and Marvin the Martian as his opponent. This cartoon marked the first of many appearances of the Duck Dodgers character. Marvin the Martian had been introduced as an unnamed villain in Warner's cartoon ''Haredevil Hare'' (1948), playing opposite Bugs Bunny (Marvin wouldn't receive his proper name until 1979). He was later given the title 'Commander, Flying Saucer X-2' in 1952's ''The Hasty Hare''. The ''Duck Dodgers'' cartoon is an extended parody of the pulp magazine, newspaper comic strip, and comic book character Buck Rogers, and his longtime run of space adventures, ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''. In 1994, ''Duck Dodgers'' was voted #4 of ''The 50 Greatest Cartoons'' of all time by members of the animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the '' Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Though an early iteration of the character first appeared in the WB cartoon ''Porky's Hare Hunt'' (1938) and a few subsequent shorts, the definitive characterization of Bugs Bunny is widely credited to have debuted in Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated film ''A Wild Hare'' (1940). Bob Givens is credited for Bugs' initial character design, though Robert McKimson is credited for what became Bugs' definitive design just a few years later. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray and white rabbit or hare who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality. He is also characterized by a Brooklyn accent, his portrayal as a trickster, and his catch phrase "Eh...What's up, doc?". Due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Amuck
''Duck Amuck'' is an American animated surreal comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released on January 17, 1953 as part of the ''Merrie Melodies'' series, and stars Daffy Duck. In the cartoon, Daffy Duck is tormented by an unseen, mischievous animator, who constantly changes Daffy's locations, clothing, voice, physical appearance, and even shape, much to Daffy's aggravation, embarrassment, and finally rage. Pandemonium reigns throughout the cartoon as Daffy attempts to steer the action back to some kind of normality, only for the animator to either ignore him or, more frequently, to over-literally interpret his increasingly frantic demands. In the end, the tormenting animator is revealed to be Bugs Bunny. In 1994, it was voted #2 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, losing only to ''What's Opera, Doc?'', also directed by Jones and written by Maltese. In 1999, ''Duck Amuck'' was added to the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Revue (film)
''Book Revue'' is a 1946 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The cartoon was released on January 5, 1946, and features Daffy Duck. The plotline is a mixture of the plots of Frank Tashlin's '' Speaking of the Weather'' (1937), '' Have You Got Any Castles?'' (1938) and Clampett's own '' A Coy Decoy'' (1941). Plot The cartoon starts out in the same, pastoral "after midnight at a closed bookstore" fashion of Frank Tashlin's trio of "books coming to life" cartoons, to the strains of ''Moonlight Sonata''; a colorized version of the storefront from ''A Coy Decoy'' can be seen. Inside, an inebriated "cuckoo bird" pops out of a cuckoo clock to announce the arrival of midnight (and signaling the "cuckoo" activities to follow) and the books come alive. The first of these is a book collection called ''"Complete Works of Shakespeare"''. Shakespeare is shown in silhouette while his literally-rendered insides ("works") are functioning clockwork mechanisms, along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Duck
The ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated shorts released by Warner Bros. feature a range of characters which are listed and briefly detailed here. Major characters from the franchise include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Granny, Lola Bunny, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester the Cat, the Tasmanian Devil (Taz), Tweety, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, and Yosemite Sam. This list does not include ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' characters or ''Duck Dodgers'' characters. This is a list of ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' characters. Recurring characters The following is a list of characters who appear in at least 2 different types of ''Looney Tunes'' media. Cameos are not included. List Blacque Jacque Shellacque Blacque Jacque Shellacque is a fictional cartoon character in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons. He was created by Robert McKimson and Tedd Pierce, and first appeared in the 1959 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasty Quacks
''Nasty Quacks'' is a 1945 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. The cartoon was released on December 1, 1945, and stars Daffy Duck. This was the final Daffy Duck cartoon, and the second to last overall, directed by Tashlin. The director is not credited as he had already left the studio. Voices of the male characters are performed by Mel Blanc. The film also introduced a love interest for Daffy. Plot The father of a suburban family gets a black duckling for his daughter, Agnes, who dotes on the duck. The duck quickly grows up to become Daffy, whose loud and obnoxious behavior drives the man to distraction, but Agnes defends her pet at every turn. The father then buys Agnes a yellow duckling, who immediately becomes the sole focus of her affection. The father comes at Daffy with murder in his eyes and chases him around the house. Kicked out, Daffy vows to get rid of his competitor. At first, he tries to kill the duckling, but he has a pang of conscienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
