Hitler's Ghostly Goat

Frank Tashlin uses ghost multiples to enhance a fight scene involving Daffy Duck and a Nazi goat in Scrap Happy Daffy (1943).

15 examples.



The scene is animated on ones; the ghost drawings are on underlays. Sometimes, the ghost image moves while the other is held.

Art Davis is the credited animator. I suspect Izzy Ellis, Phil Monroe and Cal Dalton worked on this as well (others will know better who else was in the unit). The layouts were by Dave Hilberman.

Judging by Thad Komorowski’s site, this was the first cartoon put into production with Tashlin directing after taking over the unit from military-bound Norm McCabe. This is a sheer propaganda cartoon like McCabe was stuck making, but the pace is certainly quicker than anything McCabe directed.

There’s an early UPA-stylised stack of metallic garbage on a background near the start of the cartoon that Tashlin pans up.

Tashlin directed ten cartoons for Warners in, this, his third time at the studio, before jumping to the Sutherland/Morey stop-motion operation.