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Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a 1939 Merrie Melodies animated cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for Warner Bros. Pictures. The cartoon is notable as being the first Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Jones. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is set in the Stone Age and features Daffy Duck, a caveman named Casper (a caricature of Jack Benny), and his pet dinosaur, Fido. As usual, Mel Blanc provides the voice of Daffy here, while Casper is performed by Jack Lescoulie. This is also the last cartoon with the Vitaphone intro The Cartoon opens with a note from the director: For no particular reason, this story is set in the stone age, millions and billions and trillions of years ago, probably before any of you were even born. Casper (a caveman) and Fido (an apatosaurus) 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 been tricked, it backtracks towards Daffy but ends up hitting Fido. Fido proceeds to perform a dazed dance. Daffy snatches Casper's slingshot and tricks Casper into thinking that swimming is not allowed to prevent him from pursuing him. Subsequently, Casper and Fido leave, but Daffy, knowing that Casper won't give up, paints himself on a nearby stone. Casper, holding a stone club, sees the painting and bashes it, but the force backfires and makes Casper dizzy. Daffy gives Casper a glass of water, which cures the dizziness and earns him Casper's trust. Daffy, however, gives Casper a card advertising a rare, gigantic duck living nearby, which Casper and Fido begin to hunt, following billboards (parodying advertising techniques of the era) planted by Daffy. They eventually reach the duck inflatable balloon pumped up by Daffy, terrifying Casper until Daffy gives Casper a knife with which to stab the duck. Casper does so, and the ensuing explosion kills them all. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck) series Directed by Chuck Jones Produced by Leon Schlesinger Story by Dave Monahan Voices by Mel Blanc (uncredited) Jack Lescoulie (uncredited) Music by Carl W. Stalling Animation by A.C.Gamer Ken Harris Phil Monroe (uncredited) Studio Leon Schlesinger Productions Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation Release date(s) April 22, 1939 (U.S.) Color process Technicolor Running time 8:07 Language English Preceded by The Daffy Doc (1938) Followed by A Coy Decoy (1941)