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Looney Tunes - Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)
Audio commentary by Greg Ford
Scrap Happy Daffy is a 1943 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Frank Tashlin. The cartoon was released on August 21, 1943, and stars Daffy Duck.
In the World War II-themed story, Daffy is the guard of a scrap yard, doing his part to help the United States win the war against the Nazis, but the Nazis decide to destroy his scrap pile by sending a billy goat out to eat everything in sight.
The short was the final appearance of Daffy Duck in black and white theatrical cartoons.
Voice cast:
Mel Blanc - Daffy Duck, Adolf Hitler, Nazi Soldiers, Submarine Captain, Billy Goat, Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Uncle Dillingham Duck, Minuteman Duck, Pioneer Duck, Admiral Duck, Lincoln Duck & Daffy's Ancestors
Dorothy Lloyd - Whistle
Notes:
The purpose of this cartoon was to encourage people at that time to donate any scrap material to help the U.S. military make more weapons and vehicles to fight in the war.
Daffy says, "What I'd give for a can of spinach now," an indirect reference to Popeye, whose theatrical cartoons are now owned by WB.
In ToonHeads (The Wartime Cartoons), Cartoon Network used an unrestored Sunset Productions print of the short. Curiously, it was low-pitched and lacked the opening and ending titles; they added those from "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy".
This cartoon was colorized in 1995, with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation. However, this new colorized version was never broadcast on American television due to its heavy World War II references and depiction of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. A clip of this cartoon (which was featured computer-colorized) was shown in a special episode of Cartoon Network's ToonHeads about World War II-era cartoons and on a documentary about the works of director Frank Tashlin on the third volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.
This cartoon has now fallen into the public domain because the copyright was not renewed after 1971.
The goat from this cartoon reappears during the "Toon Meeting" scene in Space Jam.
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