Porky's Duck Hunt
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| Porky's Duck Hunt
Looney Tunes/Porky Pig and Daffy Duck series |
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 Daffy Duck as he first appeared in Porky's Duck Hunt |
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Story by | Tex Avery |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc Billy Bletcher |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Robert Cannon Virgil Ross Tex Avery Robert Clampett |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Studios |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | April 17, 1937 |
| Running time | 8:47 |
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Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) is an animated short film produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, directed by Tex Avery, and released on April 17, 1937 by Warner Bros. Pictures.
This short, starring Porky Pig, is notable for being the first appearance of the character Daffy Duck. Also notable is that this is the first cartoon in which Mel Blanc voices both Porky and Daffy. Blanc won the part of Porky earlier that year. Joe Dougherty who was Porky's original voice, was fired following the cartoon Porky's Romance because he couldn't control his stutter. This film was in color in 1943.
Porky's Duck Hunt was a very popular cartoon, well-known for popular gags, the debut of Daffy Duck, and met with very positive reviews.
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[edit] Plot
The cartoon begins with the camera showing duck-hunting weapons to help Porky Pig hunt a duck. Porky holds his rifle and points it at his dog (then called Jim) and Jim runs into a drawer. Porky tells him it's not loaded and gives him an example. However, the rifle is loaded and it fires into the ceiling. The man upstairs, hurt by the bullet, punishes Porky by punching his nose. At the duck lake, Porky spies a duck but lots of other duck hunters shoot at it for a long time but it is still alive. The duck hunters say "Aw, shucks!" when they fail to shoot the duck. A dog duck hunter tries to shoot the same duck but instead shoots tiny airplanes piloted by mice.
Porky puts out duck decoys. Daffy appears among them and and acts like a fake duck. Porky tries to shoot Daffy but he shoots out water instead of bullets. Daffy then flies into a barrel. Porky shoots the oil-filled barrel but Daffy escapes. The oil infects fish, making them come to life and sing on a boat while having the hiccups. Porky Pig sees that something is wrong with the fish. Porky then hears a quack from the grass. When he looks into the grass, Daffy bites his nose. Daffy then flies to the sky but Porky shoots him. Porky fetches Jim to get Daffy but instead, Daffy ties up Jim. Porky says that this scene wasn't in the script. Daffy yells out his first words, that he's just a crazy duck, and goes on his crazy dance in the lake. Porky tries to use a duck call but when he uses it, duck hunters shoot places near Porky. Porky throws it to the ground but it bounces and Jim accidentally swallows it. Jim gets the hiccups, making quacks and Porky and Jim are forced to flee from the duck lake. Porky and Jim walk home, disappointed with their failure to shoot a duck. When Porky gets home, he sees the ducks outside doing a dance in the sky at him. Porky tries to shoot them with his gun but thinks that it has no more bullets. Porky throws his rifle, but it bounces, causing it to shoot and hurting the same man from the beginning of the film. The cartoon ends with the man punching Porky's nose and going back to his room.
[edit] Goofs
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- The window where Porky looks out to see the ducks teasing him wasn't in the beginning where it showed Porky's home.
- Porky lives in an apartment because there is a man shown in this short living in the same building upstairs but when Porky comes in the house after Daffy Duck defeats him, the outside can be seen when Porky opens the door to come in his room.
- You can see all the duck hunting tools that are shown in the camera at the very start of the short, but later on, Porky never is seen taking the tools with him except fake duck decoys. He also leaves all the decoys behind at the pond.
- After Daffy lands on the barrel, all of Porky's duck decoys have vanished.
- There were more fish in the rowboat singing with hiccups than the number of fish seen affected by the alcohol in the pond.
- Porky has a ham and cheese sandwich, which is odd, considering that Porky is a pig and ham comes from pigs.
- Daffy's size keeps changing, his biggest size was when he was flying in the air and his smallest size is when he lands on the barrel.
- Porky Pig's house is first shown as an apartment where he lives at the bottom floor, and the door leads to the apartment res-
ident building hallway, but at the end, the door shows some of the outside, meaning that it's a house for Porky Pig, and then the door leads as a apartment building again.
- Purchasing guns would be illegal in apartment buildings.
- Porky's Hare Hunt is a partial remake. Ben "Bugs" Hardaway directed this 1938 short.
[edit] Removed Elements
- The redrawn version of this cartoon (which was shown on Nickelodeon and in some syndicated networks) removed the "That's All Folks" end card where Daffy jumps and dances around the letters.
