Wise Quackers
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{{Infobox film
|name=Wise Quackers
|image=
|caption=
|director=I. Freleng
|story=Tedd Pierce
|animator=Manuel Perez
Pete Burness
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Gerry Chiniquy
|starring=Mel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
|music=Carl Stalling
|producer=Edward Selzer (uncredited)
|studio=Warner Bros. Cartoons
|distributor=Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
|released={{Film date|1949|01|01}}
|color_process=Technicolor
|runtime=7:19
|language=English
}}
Wise Quackers is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The film was released on January 1, 1949, and stars Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=194}}{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/70 70]-72}}
The short's title should not be confused with the 1939 Bob Clampett short Wise Quacks.
Plot
In a wintry landscape, Daffy Duck, struggling to keep up with migrating birds, crash-lands in Elmer Fudd's farmyard. Mistaking Daffy for game, Elmer tries to hunt him, but Daffy convinces Elmer to spare him by offering to be his servant. Inside, Daffy plays pranks on Elmer, then cooks him a meal, only to eat most of it himself. Elmer realizes he has been tricked and chases Daffy out. Daffy's antics escalate, culminating in a tree falling on a neighbor's house. Elmer's dogs capture Daffy, who tricks Elmer into thinking he is about to whip him before running off dressed as Abraham Lincoln, lecturing Elmer on slavery.
Production notes
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 1940s; this is the last Daffy Duck cartoon to include stereotyped imagery of black people.{{citation | last1=Cohen | first1= Karl F. | title=Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America | chapter= Racism and Resistance:Stereotypes in Animation| year=2004 | publisher=McFarland & Company| isbn=978-0786420322| page=54| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=gIyH_DLYhoIC&pg=PA36 }} The bit where Daffy pretends that Elmer is about to whip him (and thus disguises himself as Abraham Lincoln to scold him) was later reused in the 1953 Bugs Bunny-Yosemite Sam short Southern Fried Rabbit.
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0042048}}
- [http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/1172/daffy-duck-wise-quackers.html Wise Quackers] on Supercartoons.
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Category:Short films directed by Friz Freleng
Category:1940s Warner Bros. animated short films
Category:Films scored by Carl Stalling
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:Depictions of Abraham Lincoln on film
Category:English-language short films
Category:1949 animated short films
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