When all the birds go south for the winter, Daffy Duck
decides to stay behind, giving no thought to how he will get through the
winter. Ignoring all advice to the contrary, he avails himself of the last mild
days of autumn. When winter finally does come, he is at first satisfied to sit
it out with his stockpiles of food. But when those stores run low, and the cat
comes to town, all bets are off as the two try everything in their power to
trick one another into becoming the other ones meal.
The Schlesinger-Warner cartoons are amongst my favorite.
They have the same fluidity as the Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons by Max and
Dave Fleischer. They may a bit violent by today’s standards; video games and
most major motion pictures and television shows excluded; but they do manage to
impart some of life’s more important lessons. In this case, Walter Lantz has
cleverly redone the old story of the Ant and the Grasshopper, as well as reinforce
the Boy Scout motto about always being prepared.
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