Duck Amuck

Duck Amuck, Warner Brothers, 1951 truly pushes the envelope of animation. It is hardly a story, rather it relies completely upon the animation techniques to entertain the viewer. The blank canvas can be filled by anything, at any time; animation does not have the limitations of live action. In this there is no real story line, and only one character, yet it is entertaining clean fun for near 7 minutes.
Daffy Duck is cute as hell, with his crazy little outfits and elaborate settings. This could have only been done by a great team of animators. This is a dramatization of what it actually takes to make a frame by frame cartoon...all that goes into it. They even have one instance in which we see seperate screen shots on the film strip demonstrating just how sequenced each movement is. It is hard to even fathom the amount of work that went into this.
It is also obvious that the animators, by this point, have a clear grasp of bipedal movements; legs and arms move as if Daffy Duck were human. The complexity of this cannot be understated, for many years the form of animation was much more free flowing and unrealistic (like the films we watched last week).
There was also much more dialogue, I am all the more interested.
On a side note: I would really like to watch some Fractured Fairy Tales if we get a chance!