Porky's Poppa

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Porky's Poppa
Production company Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date January 15, 1938
Run time 7:16
Starring Mel Blanc
Bill Days
Thurl Ravenscroft
Max Smith
John Rarig
Paul Taylor (all uncredited)[1]
Producer(s) Leon Schlesinger
Music composition Carl W. Stalling
Animation Charles Jones
Norm McCabe
Bobe Cannon
John Carey
Izzy Ellis
Jerry Hatchcock
Bill Hammer[2]
Director(s) Robert Clampett
Charles Jones (assistant, uncredited)
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Porky's Poppa is the ninety-eighth short of the Looney Tunes theatrical series. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 15, 1938. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger, and directed by Bob Clampett with Chuck Jones as assistant director.

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Characters

Legend
Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Porky Pig Mel Blanc
Phineas Pig Mel Blanc


Locations

Objects

Vehicles

Production

Filming

This short marks the last time where Chuck Jones worked as an assistant director for Clampett. Eventually, he would become a director following Frank Tashlin's later departure in 1938.

The short was copyrighted on December 27, 1937.[3]

Aftermath

A colorized version of this short was produced during the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era in the late 1960s. Like a majority of black-and-white WB cartoons produced between 1935 to 1943, it produced 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.[4][5]

Another colorized version, which was made by CST Entertainment, Inc. in the early 1990s, used computer software to color the print without losing quality of the original.[5]

Music

The score was composed by Carl W. Stalling. The main titles of this short are the last ones to use the alternate 1937-38 rendition of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" since Porky's Double Trouble.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

  • United States: January 15, 1938

Behind the scenes

  • The MPAA certificate number is 3818.
  • According to the cartoon, Phineas is 48 years old.
  • The poster in the barn depicting "Bull Bontana" is a reference to professional wrestler, boxer and actor Bull Montana.
  • The two final shots of the computer-colorized print are derived from the previous hand-draw colorization.
  • When this short aired on Nickelodeon, it cuts a scene where, as Bessie (Porky's cow) "gives birth" to bottles of milk, she has one of them turn out to be chocolate milk while "Dixie" plays in the background; the joke being she had given birth to a Black child in embarrassment, whereas the other bottles she had are white, and that being a socially taboo subject back when this short was made.[6]

Legacy

Home availability

References

  1. Scott, Keith (September 20, 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. ISBN 979-8887710112. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  2. Baxter, Devon (August 6, 2024). "Animator Breakdown: “Injun Trouble” (1938) and “Wagon Heels” (1945)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  3. "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series". Library of Congress (1938). Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  4. Justin. (October 25, 2019) "50 Years of Colorized Looney Tunes". The Delbert Cartoon Report. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Looney Tunes (1936-1943)". The Colorized Cartoon Database. Retrieved from original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  6. "The CENSORED Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Guide: P". Initiabase. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024.