Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937, in Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett.

Porky in Wackyland is a 1938 animated short film, directed by Robert Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros .' Looney Tunes series.

After Daffy Duck was created, he would add even more success to Warner Bros cartoons and replaced Porky Pig as the studio's most popular animated character, and Bob Clampett took over Termite Terrice, while Tex Avery took over the Merry Melodies department.

Robert Emerson " Bob " Clampett ( May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984 ) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.

During production of Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937, Avery created a character that would become Daffy Duck and Clampett animated the character for the first time.

It turned out well enough for Republic to dabble in animated cartoons ; Bob Clampett directed a single cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag, featuring the equine character Charlie Horse.

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs ( working title: So White and de Sebben Dwarfs ) is a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres on January 16, 1943 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation.

In 1959, he voiced the beatnik character Go Man Van Gogh in " Wildman of Wildsville ", an episode of the Bob Clampett animated series Beany and Cecil.

It was ostensibly directed by Bernard Brown and animated by Jack King and Bob Clampett ( 1913 – 1984 ).

Clampett revived the series in animated form, though Freberg and Butler did not reprise their roles.

Prior to the animated series, but concurrent with the puppet show, Clampett created a comic-book series of Beany and Cecil adventures for Dell Comics.

Produced by the Cartoon Network, it featured animated theatrical shorts from the Warner Bros. library that were animated or directed by Bob Clampett, as well as a selection of shorts from the Beany and Cecil animated television series.

This was the only animated anthology show on Cartoon Network that aired uncut versions of Clampett cartoons that were typically censored on CN and cartoons that hardly ( if ever ) received airtime ( such as Russian Rhapsody and Bacall to Arms ).

Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 animated short subject, directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros .' Merrie Melodies series.

Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in 1942 in the Avery / Clampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1943 cartoon Porky Pig's Feat which marked Bugs ' only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

On the original model sheet, Tweety was named Orson ( which was also the name of a bird character from an earlier Clampett cartoon Wacky Blackout ).

A Corny Concerto ( 1943 ), a Warner Bros cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett with animation by Robert McKimson, features music that was composed by Johann Strauss, and is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 Fantasia.

* Kitty Kornered ( 1946 ), a Bob Clampett cartoon in which a black-nosed, yellow-eyed Sylvester was teamed with three other cats to oust owner Porky Pig from his house.

* 1945: Tokyo Woes, propaganda cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.

Clampett worked for a time at Screen Gems, then the cartoon division of Columbia Pictures, as a screenwriter and gag writer.

" Gray, a personal friend of Clampett, calls the controversy " a deliberate and vicious smear campaign by one of Bob's rivals in the cartoon business.

" Other Warner Bros. peers such as musical co-ordinator Carl Stalling and animator Tex Avery stood by Clampett during his talks on the cartoon industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Kricfalusi calls Clampett his favorite cartoon director and calls The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ( 1946 ) his favorite cartoon: " I saw this thing and it completely changed my life, I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen, and I still think it is.

" Milton Gray believes that Schlesinger put Clampett in charge of the black and white cartoon division in order to save it, and many historians have singled out a scene in Porky's Duck Hunt in which Daffy exits as a defining Clampett moment.

* In 1943, Bob Clampett directed Falling Hare, a Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny.

In fact, the idea to produce Coal Black came to Clampett after he saw Duke Ellington's 1941 musical revue Jump for Joy, and Ellington and the cast suggested Clampett make a black musical cartoon.

Originally, Clampett wanted an all-black band to score the cartoon, the same way Max and Dave Fleischer had Cab Calloway and His Orchestra score the Betty Boop cartoons Minnie the Moocher, The Old Man of the Mountain, and their own version of Snow White.

Clampett would revisit black jazz culture again in another 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Tin Pan Alley Cats, which features a feline caricature of Fats Waller in a repurposing of the wacky fantasy world from Porky in Wackyland ( during the opening sequence, the " Fats " cat is distracted by what appears to be a sexy, feline version of So White ).

His first cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed ( due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ), followed by Roughly Squeaking ( 1946 ) as Bertie ; and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag ( Charlie Horse ), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures ; The Goofy Gophers ( Tosh ), and One Meat Brawl ( Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell ).

In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany.

Clampett was promoted to director in late 1936, directing a color sequence in the feature When's Your Birthday?

After leaving Warner Bros. in 1946 ( reportedly due to angering his peers at the studio's cartoon division for taking credit that was not really his ), Bob Clampett approached Republic and wound up directing a single cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag, featuring the equine character Charlie Horse.

Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett after he left Warner Bros., where he had been directing theatrical cartoon shorts.

He also noted that the " feud " that there may have been between Jones and colleague Robert Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other.

Meanwhile, as Clampett noted, nothing was ever made of the fact that " all those years, Porky never wore any pants!

He was noted for his work with Gene Autry and Bing Crosby, and for singing " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", the theme song to the 1960s sitcom " The Beverly Hillbillies ".

When Clampett was promoted to director in 1937, Jones was assigned to his unit ; the Clampett unit was briefly assigned to work with Jones ' old employer, Ub Iwerks, when Iwerks subcontracted four cartoons to Schlesinger in 1937.

The idea of a family of comical monsters was first suggested to Universal Studios in the late 1940s by animator Bob Clampett, who wanted to do a series of cartoons.

In his early appearances in Bob Clampett cartoons, Tweety is a very aggressive character who tries anything to foil his foe, even kicking his enemy when he is down.

By this time Warners ' cartoons directors of the 1940s were Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett.

Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio, directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio's most famous characters, including Porky Pig and Tweety.

Clampett was, in his words, so " enchanted " by the new medium of sound cartoons that he instead joined Harman-Ising Studios in 1931 for ten dollars a week.

Clampett finished Avery's remaining unfinished cartoons.

Clampett was also famous for doing some brief voices or sound effects in some of the cartoons, the most famous being ending his most famous cartoons with his own joke on impersonating the Warner Bros. zooming in shield sound effect ( otherwise known as " Bay-woop !").

Clampett liked to bring hip cultural movements into his cartoons, especially jazz ; film, magazines, comics, novels, and popular music are referenced in Clampett shorts, most visible in Book Revue ( 1946 ), where performers are drawn onto various famous books.

Clampett continued to direct cartoons each year at the studio until 1946.

Warner Bros. had recently bought the rights to the entire Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies studio from Schlesinger, and while his cartoons of 1946 are today considered on the cutting edge of the art for that period, at the time, Clampett was ready to seek new challenges.

In the late 1950s, Clampett was hired by Associated Artists Productions to catalog the pre-August 1948 Warner cartoons it had just acquired.

Clampett died of a heart attack on May 2, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, just six days before his 71st birthday, while touring the country to promote the home video release of Beany & Cecil cartoons.

He writes that Jones began making additional accusations against Clampett, such as that Clampett would " go around the studio at night, looking at other directors ' storyboards for ideas he could steal for his own cartoons.

Bagge's signature elastic, kinetic art style is a product of his love for 1940s Warner Brothers cartoons ( especially those directed by Bob Clampett ).

The Golden Age of American animation, like the 1940s cartoons by Bob Clampett and Tex Avery to name a few, served for inspiration for the bizarre expressions and artwork for which Spümcø became well-known.