Daffy Dilly

Daffy Dilly

October 30, 1948 Theatrical Series Merrie Melodies

Studio
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
Distributor
Warner Bros.

Synopsis

Daffy is a chicken inspector badge salesman who can earn a million bucks if he makes ailing and morose buzz saw baron J.P. Cubish laugh. Novelty huckster Daffy abandons his street corner and tries to claim the reward. But he has to get past the butler first- via a series of blackout gags and a snappy Humphrey Bogart detective bit. "It's a living!"

Characters

Daffy Duck, J.P. Cubish, Reporter, Butler

Credits

Directing

Director
Chuck Jones (as Charles M. Jones)

Producing

Producer
Edward Selzer

Writing

Writer
Michael Maltese

Animation

Animator
Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Philip Monroe
Effects Animation
A. C. Gamer

Voices

Voice
Mel Blanc (Daffy Duck, J.P. Cubish, Reporter, Butler)

Music

Music
Carl Stalling

Crew

Layouts
Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds
Peter Alvarado

Production notes

Remade in 1963 as "Fast Buck Duck."

The last Warner Bros. cartoon to have the titles appear in the blue ribbon.

The Blue Ribbon release featured green rings.

In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.

All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.

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