Beginning and ending of Down and Dirty Duck (1974)

Well, the new year has come to my part of the world, so how about a video symbolizing an end and a new beginning... yeah, that's corny. I edited this together last night and figured hey might as well put it up on New Year's.

Consider this the "Safe for Work" edit of the film because everything in between is definitely NOT. I'm not going to call it a Fritz the Cat ripoff but it definitely was riding its coattails (it even also had a scene in the desert). My thoughts in summary are that it and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (which came out the same year) are the genesis point of edgelord shock for shock's sake humor. I'm not even really offended, personally, just... annoyed. Listen, I spent my nervous breakdown years immersed in 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica culture (as well as the general edgelord culture of the 2000s in general), I've seen and read even worse. This is just its boomer "hippie" grandpa. And maybe it had a point in 1974 but I just roll my eyes more than anything. It's a shame too because I enjoyed the music by Flo & Eddie and the visuals by Murakami-Wolf (who would go on to do The Point and, I shit you not, the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) - both of which feature in the bookends as shown here. I guess you could call the opening a logo of sorts but how would you even describe it on the AVID Wiki since it's for multiple companies? And as for the ending shot... IDK why but it makes me think of Evangelion. I'm probably misremembering something here, but it does.

Anyway, enough blah blah. You probably don't read this stuff anyway. Happy new year even though I frankly can't see how.
© New World Pictures but I have no idea who has the rights now