Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur folks!"). Most of Chuck Jones-directed cartoons from this era (such as the ones featuring Sniffles the Mouse) were very heavily inspired by Walt Disney's cartoon shorts, placing more emphasis on story and animation than gags. "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur" shows the faintest hints of deviation from such cartoons, which eventually led to the fast-paced Jones cartoons of the 1940s, such as "The Dover Boys" and "The Draft Horse". This is also an important milestone in the evolution of Daffy Duck's personality. While Tex Avery and Bob Clampett had depicted Daffy as completely insane, irrational, and uncontrollable in their previous
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur was first used in "The Phantom Ship" in 1936. The film is in the public domain and is available on several low-budget home video releases in an unrestored form. A restored and remastered version is available on DVD as part of Disc 4 in of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection". The cartoon opens with a note in white letters on black: Casper (a caveman) and Fido (an apatosaur) go duck hunting and find Daffy. Casper slingshots a rock at Daffy, but Daffy manages to avoid it by disguising himself as a traffic cop. When the rock realizes that it has