Daffy Duck was born on April 17, 1937 at Warner studios. Daffy seemed to be the agent through which the strongest of the Warner cartoon directors most expressed their filmmaking personalities; each director would find aspects of the duck that would articulate their own induvidual temperament. In each of their hands Daffy would become a different entity, and with each he would become more complex by the accretion of influences from past performances, whitmanesque in his own way, Daffy contained multitoons. Daffy's first appearance was in Tex Avery's 1937 Porky's Duck Hunt which brings Porky to a marshland with his loyal Hound hunting for ducks, but among the many ducks one would refuse to play by the rules. Squat and rounded, Daffy quickly lets himself by shot, but when Porky's dog brings the carcass back to his master. Daffy turns the table by tossing the dogs exhausted corpus at Porky's feet. Daffy then breaks into a giddy laugh, and goads Porky.
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