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Schlesinger and his team returned to the studio, where they shared their incredible discovery with Jack Warner. The negotiations with Disney that followed led to a historic partnership, which would eventually give birth to some of the most iconic animated characters of all time, including Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse.

As they arrived at the old windmill on Rue 66, a eerie fog enveloped the group. Suddenly, a figure emerged from the shadows – none other than Daffy Duck, dressed in a fedora and a trench coat.

As it turned out, Daffy had stumbled upon an obscure reference to a 1929 patent application for a revolutionary new animation technique. The application, filed by a then-unknown animator named Walt Disney, described a method for creating synchronized sound in cartoons. The cryptic code, Daffy explained, was a fractional reference to the patent's filing number.