Daffy Doodles
Studio: Warner Bros. Release Date : April 16, 1946 Series: Looney Tunes

Cumulative rating:
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Synopsis

Daffy is a criminal who goes around town painting mustaches on everything from posters to statues to people, and it's up to Porky to bring him to justice. In court, he repents after the jury mercifully declares him "not guilty"—from now on, he's painting beards!

Characters

Daffy Duck
(Voice: Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc)
Porky Pig
(Voice: Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc)

Caricatures

Jerry Colonna

Credits

Note: "Unverified" credits may not be correct and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Director

Robert "Bob" McKimson

Animator

Arthur "Art" Davidavitch "Davis"
Cal Dalton
Donald Herald "Don" Williams
Richard "Dick" Bickenbach
Isadore "Izzy" Ellis
Anatolle "Tolly" Kirsanoff
Ray Patin

Story

Warren Foster

Music

Carl W. Stalling

Backgrounds

Richard H. "Dick" Thomas

Voices

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc
Robert C. Bruce (unverified)

Producer

Edward "Eddie" Selzer (unverified)

Film Editor

Treg Brown (unverified)

Orchestration

Milton J. "Milt" Franklyn (unverified)

Music Sources

Kalmar, Bert and Harry Ruby : "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter "
Warren, Harry and Johnny Mercer : "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby "
Friend, Cliff and Charles Tobias : "Time Waits for No One "
Heyman, Edward & Dana Suesse : "You Oughta Be in Pictures "
Blake, Eubie : "I'm Just Wild About Harry "
Skylar, Sunny : "All The Time "
Warren, Harry and Al Dubin : "Forty-Second Street "

Broadcasters

Cartoon Network
Tooncast

Distributor(s)

Warner Bros.

Included in:

Director Robert McKimson

Milestones

  • The first Looney Tunes short to be directed by Robert McKimson

Trivia

  • An image of Bugs Bunny with a mustache painted on him can be seen when Porky walks by the movie theater looking for Daffy.

VHS

United States

Porky!
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival featuring "Tick Tock Tuckered"
1940s Zanies

Laserdisc (CLV)

United States

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes

DVD

United States

Barbara Stanwyck: Signature Collection
My Reputation
My Reputation (Warner Archive Collection)

BluRay Disc

United States

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 1

Technical Specifications

Production No.: 13-15
MPAA No.: 10253
Animation Type: Standard (Hand-drawn-Cel) Animation
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Cinematographic Format: Spherical
Color Type: Technicolor
Negative Type: 35mm
Original Country: United States
Original Language: English
Print Type: 35mm
Sound Type: Mono

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From TibbyH :

Robert McKimson was certainly a capable director, but I don't think a single cartoon he directed could ever top his first Looney Tunes short. "Daffy Doodles" is one of the pinnacle crazy Daffy cartoons, with him starring as the insane villain who paints mustaches all over town. This is definitely one of Warren Foster's best scripts as the humor and timing is near perfect. The animation is noticeably well done featuring a star studded cast of artists (who coincidentally worked with the zaniest Warner Bros directors). Carl Stalling seemed to bring out most of his favorite tunes for the score to this short. It's sad McKimson's shorts slowly trickled into mediocrity, but at least his earliest shorts such as this one hold up like a mustache painted gem.
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