The Vanishing Duck
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| The Vanishing Duck
Tom and Jerry series |
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 The title card of The Vanishing Duck. |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Red Coffee (as Quacker) Daws Butler (as George) June Foray (as Joan) All are uncredited |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Lewis Marshall Kenneth Muse Carlo Vinci James Escalante |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | May 2, 1958 |
| Color process | Technicolor, CinemaScope, Perspecta Stereo |
| Running time | 7 minutes 4 seconds |
| Preceded by | Royal Cat Nap |
| Followed by | Robin Hoodwinked |
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The Vanishing Duck is a 1957 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The cartoon was animated by Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse, Carlo Vinci and James Escalante, with music by Scott Bradley, backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach. It was released on the 2nd of May 1958 and marks the final appearance of Quacker, who appeared in seven previous Tom and Jerry shorts. As such, The Vanishing Duck is the antepenultimate Tom and Jerry short of the Hanna and Barbera era.
[edit] Plot
In a plot reminiscent of 1947's The Invisible Mouse, Quacker is a singing duck who has been purchased by owner of the house George, for his wife Joan. After nearly being swallowed alive by Tom when George and Joan are out at dinner, Quacker escapes to Jerry's mouse hole, where the two become friends. When Tom catches Quacker, Jerry trips Tom up with some extension cord, causing Tom to lose his grip on Quacker, sending him straight into a tub of vanishing cream. An invisible Quacker is able to come to Jerry's rescue, where he shows him the secret of the vanishing cream. Thus invisible, the two gleefully torment and bamboozle poor Tom by eating his watermelon, vanishing his tail, and kicking him out of the house, until he overhears their secret and renders himself invisible, enough to give Jerry and Quacker their comeuppance.
