The Foxy Duckling
1947 film by Arthur Davis
The Foxy Duckling is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies color cartoon short directed by Arthur Davis, with voices by Mel Blanc and music by Carl Stalling. It was released on August 23, 1947.
Plot
An insomniac fox is having trouble sleeping, and despite his best efforts (tossing and turning, clamping his eyes shut, etc.), he simply cannot fall asleep. He stumbles across a book entitled Insomnia and its Cure, which tells him filling his pillow with duck feathers is essential for a good night's sleep. The next morning, the fox heads out to capture a duck and soon comes across one. The duck, however, proves to be too much for the fox to handle, as he is constantly outsmarted and all his plans to capture him backfire at every turn.
Frustrated, the fox tries one last ditch effort to capture the duck, who is flying just out of his reach. Using many boards and nails, he creates himself a crude wooden bridge to reach him, though the duck outsmarts him yet again by almost-completely sawing off the part of the tree the boards were attached to, leaving it on the verge of collapsing should even the slightest bit of movement be had... and as luck would have it, the bridge is balanced dangerously over a rather large ravine.
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