Hard Luck Duck (1995)
- Directed by
- William Hanna
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A naive duck wanders away from his alligator friend and becomes the target of a hungry fox who wants to cook him. The cartoon follows the fox's attempts to catch the duck and the duck's close calls.
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What happens
Hard Luck Duck is a What a Cartoon! animated cartoon directed by William Hanna, produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, and broadcast as a part of World Premiere Toons on Cartoon Network on April 16, 1995. The cartoon involves Hard Luck Duck (Russi Taylor), after venturing away from Harley Gator (Brad Garrett)'s watch, is a hungry fox (Jim Cummings)'s target to be cooked. Although he was a producer on many Hanna-Barbera titles until his death on March 22, 2001, Hard Luck Duck is notable for being, with fellow What a Cartoon! short Wind-Up Wolf, the last cartoons written and directed by William Hanna, whose career began in the Golden Age of American animation at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) with the short To Spring (1936) and his later Tom and Jerry series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Little Quacker (1950)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.