Here’s our screwy duck in Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938). He’s sorry (sure he is!) he’s heckled director Mark Hamburger and gives him a present. Daffy turns to walk away.
Guess what the present is? “It’s me again,” shouts the duck as he runs in circles in a woo-hoo celebration of another gag being pulled off. Unfortunately, the scene fades out as we get some twirling animation of Daffy.
Dave Monahan is credited with helping Tex Avery with gags, with the animation credit going to Virgil Ross. Mark Hamburger is a spoof on director/columnist Mark Hellinger, while the big studio boss dresses like Leon Schlesinger and has a Miss Morgan as a secretary, just like Ginger Morgan at the Schlesinger studio.
Virgil Ross is the defacto animator of this scene!
ReplyDeleteAnd Rolfe Sedan is the producer (as Herman Bing-don't know why they didn't just get him to do the voice-after all, three years later, Walt Disney nhad him as the ringmaster in Dumbo.)
ReplyDeletePS didn't knwo of John Hamburger being based ona real-life director! I agree, this Daffy IS so MUCH FUN TO WTCH.
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