Daffy Duck in Hollywood

Daffy Duck in Hollywood

Year: 1938

Runtime: 8 mins

Language: English

Director: Tex Avery

AnimationComedy

Daffy causes trouble on a Hollywood set.

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Wonder Studios, Hollywood

Wonder Studios serves as the bustling backdrop for a chaotic film production. The action unfolds on the studio lot and on the set, where a parody director tries to keep a picture on track. The short uses the sound stages and lighting rigs as playgrounds for slapstick chaos, satirizing Hollywood filmmaking.

🎬 Studio 🏢 Hollywood 🎭 Film satire

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Main Characters – Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

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Von Hamburger (Herman Bing)

Von Hamburger is a parody of the stern studio director who tries to keep a film on track. He orders takes and lunches and reacts with increasing frustration as Daffy sabotages lighting, sound, and the camera. His authority crumbles under the barrage of slapstick, and the ending flips the roles as Hamburger ends up the screwball while Daffy remains the chaotic force. He embodies the old-school, rule-bound control of Hollywood filmmaking that is upended by chaos.

🎬 Director 🧭 Authority 😂 Slapstick

Daffy Duck (Mel Blanc)

Daffy is the chaotic engine of the short, constantly undermining the production with improvisation and mischief. He sabotages the set—lighting, sound, and even the film editing—while riffing with the audience and pulling focus to himself. He ultimately seizes control, becoming the director and transforming the project into his own brand of chaotic comedy.

🎭 Trickster 🎬 Film sabotage 👀 Fourth-wall humor

Katherine Hepburn Chick (Sara Berner)

The hen in the on-screen romance parodies classic Hollywood pairings, providing a poised counterpoint to Daffy's antics. She becomes the object of a kiss interrupted by Daffy, highlighting the playful send-up of romance in film. The character is part of the film-within-a-film that reveals the constructed nature of cinematic relationships.

🎭 Romancer 🎬 Supporting character 🐔 Animal character

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Major Themes – Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

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🎭 Fourth Wall

Daffy breaks the fourth wall early on, turning the movie into a running meta-commentary on filmmaking. The audience is directly acknowledged as the viewer of the production, while the characters and props respond to the joke. This self-referential humor exposes the artificiality of cinema and invites laughter at the process rather than the plot. The technique underscores Warner Bros.' playful critique of studio conventions.

🎬 Hollywood Satire

The short satirizes the production pipeline: a chaotic director, a troublesome star, and an over-the-top crew. It uses mismatched audio and cascading chaos to mock how films can be assembled through arbitrary choices. The resulting film-within-a-film becomes a satire of power dynamics and the fragility of art in the studio system.

🌀 Chaos vs Control

Daffy's anarchic antics constantly upend the production's attempt at control, swapping film clips and sabotaging equipment. The director's authority deteriorates as Daffy takes over, turning the set into a playground of unpredictable gags. The theme frames chaos as a form of comic energy that drives the narrative forward, ending with a role reversal where Daffy becomes the director and Hamburger becomes the clown.

Last Updated: October 04, 2025 at 19:07

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