Wise Quackers Take

The basic principles of animation are at work in these consecutive frames from Wise Quackers, a 1949 cartoon from the Friz Freleng unit at Warners.

Here’s a Daffy take. Anticipation and then the extreme.



There’s a great scene of Elmer’s two pet dogs jumping over, and banging into, each other. Afraid the references to slavery (and joke about blindness) will keep this short on the shelf.

Pete Burness joins Friz’ regulars: Manny Perez, Ken Champin, Gerry Chiniquy and Virgil Ross. There’s an inside reference to layout man Hawley Pratt in Paul Julian’s background at the end.