Porky Pig's Feat

Porky Pig's Feat
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Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 17, 1943
Run time	8:39
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation	Phil Monroe
Director(s)	Frank Tashlin
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Porky Pig's Feat is the one hundred and eighty third Looney Tunes theatrical short, starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 17, 1943. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Frank Tashlin.

Porky and Daffy try to escape from a hotel, after they are caught by its manager for not paying their bill.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Hotel manager	Mel Blanc
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Broken Arms Hotel

Production

The short is the first Schlesinger cartoon in which Frank Tashlin served as director, since his five year absence in 1938 for working at Disney and Screen Gems.

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

This marks the first usage of the song "Powerhouse," composed by Raymond Scott, in a Warner Bros. cartoon. The song itself became iconic through its use in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons, and became associated as a "assembly line" musical theme in most of them.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 17, 1943 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a play on "pigs feet" (or pickled pigs' feet), a type of pork that is often salted and cured in a manner similar to ham or bacon.
• This marks the first and only appearance of Bugs Bunny in a black-and-white theatrical cartoon.
• It is also the last black-and-white cartoon to feature Porky Pig.
• This short is one of several Warner Bros. animated cartoons to have fallen under the public domain, due to Warner Bros. failing to renew the copyright in 1971.

Everlasting influence

• The end of the cartoon contained what would later became out-of-character moment for Daffy, when he calls Bugs Bunny as his "hero." Later, Daffy would recast as an egotistical rival to Bugs in the 1950s, more notably in Chuck Jones' "hunting trilogy" of cartoons: Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck!