Porky's Road Race
| Porky's Road Race | |
|---|---|
| Production company | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | February 7, 1937 |
| Run time | 7:16 |
| Starring | Joe Dougherty Tedd Pierce Billy Bletcher |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation | Robert Bentley Joe D'Igalo |
| Director(s) | Frank Tash |
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Porky's Road Race is the eighty-third Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 7, 1937. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Frank Tashlin.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Characters
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Locations
Objects
Vehicles
- Porky's car
- Black 13
Production
Development
Filming
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 Color Systems Inc. (led by Fred Ladd), and was 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.[2][3]
Another colorized version was made, which was outsourced to CST Entertainment, Inc. in the early 1990s. Computer software was used to color the print without losing quality of the original.[3]
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 7, 1937 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- Borax Karloff is a parody of actor Boris Karloff, who is known for portraying Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein.
- When this short aired on Nickelodeon, the scene where the drivers begin the race cuts a part where a Stepin Fetchit caricature slowly trails behind them, possibly due to concerns of Black sterotyping.[4]
Errors
Home availability
- In the United States:
- October 25, 2005: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 on DVD.
- September 19, 2017: Warner Archive Collection releases Porky Pig 101 on DVD.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hartley, Steven (April 22, 2012). " 155. Porky's Road Race (1937)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie . Retrieved June 22, 2024.
- ↑ Justin. (October 25, 2019) "50 Years of Colorized Looney Tunes". The Delbert Cartoon Report. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Looney Tunes (1936-1943)". The Colorized Cartoon Database. Retrieved from original on September 19, 2015.
- ↑ "The CENSORED Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Guide: P". Initiabase. Retrieved from original on November 25, 2017.
