Pull on a Bull

Daffy discovers he’s pulling on a bull, not a sickly calf, in Porky’s Last Stand, an early 1940 release from the Bob Clampett unit. Some examples of expressions he’s given.



These are consecutive frames.



Izzy Ellis received the animation credit in this short, with Warren Foster coming up with a weak ending. Backgrounds by Dick Thomas.

As you can see from this Hollywood Reporter story on the right, Warners was releasing pairs of shorts every week. Three cartoons in two months was a pretty big workload for the Clampett unit, and may be one of the reasons his black-and-white cartoons seemed watered down in 1940-41.