Wise Quackers

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Wise Quackers
Directed byI. Freleng
Story byTedd Pierce
Produced byEdward Selzer (uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byManuel Perez
Pete Burness
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Gerry Chiniquy
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
January 1, 1949
Running time
7 min. 23 sec.
LanguageEnglish

Wise Quackers is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.[1] The cartoon was released on January 1, 1949, and stars Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.[2]

The short should not be confused with the 1939 Bob Clampett short Wise Quacks.

The film's plot centers around Daffy Duck (voiced by Mel Blanc) being Elmer Fudd's (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan) slave so as not to be killed and eaten by Elmer.

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The film makes several references to African-American slaves for comedic effect, and has Daffy uttering the line "Tote dat barge! Lift dat bale!" from the song Ol' Man River. Warner Bros' films dropped the use of racist caricatures at the end of the 40s; this is the last Daffy Duck cartoon to include stereotyped imagery of black people.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 194. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70-72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ Cohen, Karl F. (2004), "Racism and Resistance:Stereotypes in Animation", Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America, McFarland & Company, p. 54, ISBN 978-0786420322

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