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22-531: A semi-remake of Clampett's earlier short A Coy Decoy (1941), it also incorporates plot elements of Frank Tashlin's Speaking of the Weather (1937) and Have You Got Any Castles (1938) A collection of books becomes animated after midnight, starting with the Complete Works of Shakespeare , depicted as clockwork mechanisms. The narrative transitions to various book covers, including Young Man with

44-405: A hostage siege, in order to limit hostage rescue efforts. A sonar decoy is a device designed to create a misleading reading on sonar , such as the appearance of a false target. In biochemistry, there are decoy receptors , decoy substrates and decoy RNA . In addition, digital decoys are used in protein folding simulations. Decoy receptors , or sink receptors, are receptors that bind

66-500: A ligand , inhibiting it from binding to its normal receptor. For instance, the receptor VEGFR-1 can prevent vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from binding to the VEGFR-2 The TNF inhibitor etanercept exerts its anti-inflammatory effect by being a decoy receptor that binds to TNF. A decoy substrate or pseudosubstrate is a protein that has similar structure to the substrate of an enzyme , in order to make

88-537: A Horn, where a caricature of Harry James plays jazz music. An emaciated caricature of Frank Sinatra sings amidst the revelry, captivating other book cover characters. A jam session ensues, featuring a variety of characters from different books. Daffy Duck interrupts the festivities and commands the music to stop. He reminisces in a fake Russian accent before inadvertently teasing the Big Bad Wolf, who pursues Daffy through various book scenes. The police apprehend

110-499: A copy of Nordhoff and Hall's The Hurricane to blow the wolf away, and lightning from the book Lightning strikes the wolf. The wolf surrenders, fittingly under Ernest Hemingway 's recent bestseller For Whom the Bell Tolls . Daffy returns to the decoy. Porky enters the scene addresses in derision of Daffy, saying that Daffy and the decoy could never "mean anything to each other." Daffy sticks up his nose and swims away with

132-406: A decoy is a computer-generated protein structure which is designed so to compete with the real structure of the protein. Decoys are used to test the validity of a protein model; the model is considered correct only if it is able to identify the native state configuration of the protein among the decoys. Decoys are generally used to overcome a main problem in protein folding simulations: the size of

154-482: A female duck decoy from the book Toys . Daffy is entranced and exclaims (quoting a recent hit record), "Well, Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar ." He follows and woos the decoy, adopting a Chsrles Boyer accent at one point, but when he closes his eyes, the wolf enters, and Daffy mistakenly embraces the wolf's nose. Once he realizes he is in danger, Daffy (recycling some of the dialogue from 1939's Hare-um Scare-um ) tells

176-450: A great, great turn by a duck called Daffy, as he dances, scat-sings, cavorts, and distorts in one of his true moments of glory... Book Revue is an encyclopedia of what can be done in the animated medium if you're brilliant enough." A Coy Decoy A Coy Decoy is a 1941 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon , directed by Bob Clampett . The cartoon was released on June 7, 1941, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck . The film

198-707: A significant hobby both for folk art collectors and hunters. The world record was set in September 2007 when a pintail drake and Canada goose, both by A. Elmer Crowell , sold for 1.13 million dollars apiece. The decoy in war is a low-cost device intended to represent a real item of military equipment. They may be used in different ways: In irregular warfare , improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are commonly used as roadside bombs to target military patrols. Some guerrillas also use imitation IEDs to intimidate civilians, to waste bomb disposal resources, or to set up an ambush. Some terrorist groups use fake bombs during

220-429: Is a life-size model of the creature. The hunter places a number about the hunting area as they will encourage wild birds to land nearby, hopefully within the range of the concealed hunter. Originally carved from wood, they are now typically made from plastic. Wildfowl decoys (primarily ducks, geese, shorebirds, and crows, but including some other species) are considered a form of folk art . Collecting decoys has become

242-466: Is an evaluation of an artwork; this pun is however not retained in the title of the reissue. Animation historian Steve Schneider writes that many of the cartoon's references are dated, "but who cares? ... Better simply to revel in Book Revue' s headlong brio, overlapping settings, meticulous economy of gesture, intertwining narratives, resourceful color effects, super-efficient use of screen space—and

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264-434: Is set in a closed bookstore at night, when the many characters and elements featured within the books come to life, similar to Frank Tashlin 's own shorts Speaking of the Weather , Have You Got Any Castles? , and You're an Education . The idea would later be reworked five years later into Book Revue , although only Daffy features in that. The film begins with Ludwig van Beethoven 's " Moonlight Sonata " playing as

286-515: The Dutch de Kooi (the cage) and dates back to the early 17th century, when this type of duck trap was introduced to England from the Netherlands. As "decoy" came more commonly to signify a person or a device than a pond with a cage-trap, the latter acquired the retronym decoy pool. The other form, a duck decoy (model) , otherwise known as a 'decoy duck', 'hunting decoy' or 'wildfowl decoy',

308-700: The conformational space . For very detailed protein models, it can be practically impossible to explore all the possible configurations to find the native state. To deal with this problem, one can make use of decoys. The idea behind this is that it is unnecessary to search blindly through all possible conformations for the native conformation; the search can be limited to a relevant sub-set of structures. To start with, all non-compact configurations can be excluded. A typical decoy set will include globular conformations of various shapes, some having no secondary structures, some having helices and sheets in different proportions. The computer model being tested will be used to calculate

330-504: The Wolf, who is then sentenced by a magazine cover judge. The celebration is short-lived as the Wolf reappears, causing chaos. Eventually, the characters dance to " Carolina in the Morning ," but the Wolf emerges from Dante's Inferno, demanding an end to the dancing. The film was reissued in 1951, as Book Review . The original title is a pun, as a revue is a variety show, while a review

352-604: The committing or resolving of crimes . In hunting wildfowl, the term decoy may refer to two distinct devices. One, the duck decoy (structure) , is a long cone-shaped wickerwork tunnel installed on a small pond to catch wild ducks . After the ducks settled on the pond, a small, trained dog would herd the birds into the tunnel. The catch was formerly sent to market for food, but now these are used only by ornithologists to catch ducks to be ringed and released. The word decoy , also originally found in English as "coy", derives from

374-468: The decoy, followed by four tiny decoys that look like Daffy. This cartoon is available on many public domain video and DVD compilations (including Cartoon Explosion, Volume 2 released in 2001 by Front Row Entertainment where it is presented in its 1968 redrawn colorized form). The original black and white print fully remastered and uncut was included on the Porky Pig 101 DVD on September 19, 2017, that

396-423: The enzyme bind to the pseudosubstrate rather than to the real substrate, thus blocking the activity of the enzyme. These proteins are therefore enzyme inhibitors . Examples include K3L produced by vaccinia virus , which prevents the immune system from phosphorylating the substrate eIF-2 by having a similar structure to eIF-2. Thus, the vaccinia virus avoids the immune system. In protein folding simulations,

418-524: The scene descends on a bookstore. The camera pans across an array of the bestselling books of early 1941 (including Valtin 's Out of the Night , Fedorova 's The Family , and Nordhoff and Hall 's No More Gas ), before reaching an older favorite, Uncle Tom's Cabin , which as a gag has a Federal Housing Administration sign in front of the cabin. Porky Pig, featured on the cover of The Westerner , comes to life and sings "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride." Across

440-444: The way, Daffy Duck, featured on the cover of The Ugly Duckling , comes to life and sings "I Can't Get A Long Little Dogie." Daffy finds his way to Black Beauty and comes out riding not a horse, but a big black woman , whom he rides to The Lake . A wolf emerges from The Wolf of Wall Street (presumably Blake McVeigh's novelization of the 1929 movie), sneaks behind Zane Grey's The Green Bay Tree and lures Daffy to him using

462-408: The wolf that he is not worth eating (he claims to have so many diseases that even the draft rejected him) and runs away. Daffy runs toward Ethel Vance 's novel Escape , but the wolf blocks his way. As the wolf pursues, Daffy turns on him and exclaims the catchphrase form number one radio program Fibber McGee and Molly "You're a hard man, McGee." He then uses the books to defeat the wolf. He opens

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484-461: Was officially released by Warner Archive. Decoy A decoy (derived from the Dutch de kooi , literally "the cage" or possibly ende kooi , " duck cage " ) is usually a person, device , or event which resembles what an individual or a group might be looking for, but it is only meant to lure them. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting , but also in wartime and in

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