Chicken Jitters

Chicken Jitters
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Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	April 1, 1939
Run time	6:45
Starring	Mel Blanc Danny Webb Dorothy Lloyd
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Carl W. Stalling
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Robert Cannon Vive Risto
Director(s)	Robert Clampett
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Chicken Jitters is the one hundred and twenty-fourth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on April 1, 1939. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Leon Schlesinger, and directed by Bob Clampett.

Porky Pig is an owner of a poultry farm, where chickens and ducks roam free until a fox shows up.

Memorable quotes

Rooster: WAKE UP FELLAS!!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Porky's poultry farm

Vehicles

• None

Production

Aftermath

A colorized version of this short was produced during the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era in the late 1960s, in order to make it appealing to contemporary viewers. Like a majority of black-and-white WB cartoons produced between 1935 to 1943, it was sent to be done by Color Systems Inc., and retraced from a 16mm film master by the Sunset Productions library. Due to a low budget and time constraints, every other frame was only redraw, leaving only half of the cartoon's frame rate.

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 15, 1939 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The MPAA number of this short is 5020.
• The names at the chicken coops have several references to films relevant to when it was made:
  • The names, "Blondie + Dagwood", come from the main characters of the Blondie comic strip, and its respective film and radio series.
  • "The Jones Family" take their name from the titular cast of 20th Century Fox's comedy film series of the same name, which ran between 1936 and 1940.
  • "The Hardy Family" is named after the Andy Hardy's family, from the titular film series by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer.
  • "Mother Carey's Chicks" is a play on the 1938 RKO drama film Mother Carey's Chickens, based on a 1917 play of the same name.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • September 19, 2017: Warner Archive Collection releases Porky Pig 101.