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. 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.
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Production
The short is the first Schlesinger production in which Frank Tashlin served as director, since his five year absence in 1938 for working at Disney and Screen Gems.[1]
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.[2] The song itself became iconic through its use in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons, and became associated as an "assembly line" musical theme in most of these.
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 method similar to ham or bacon.
- This marks the first and only appearance of Bugs Bunny in a black-and-white cartoon.
- It is also the last black-and-white cartoon to feature Porky Pig.
- When Porky is imprisoned, he writes "Porky loves Petunia" with an image of two hearts and an arrow. It was the last mention of Petunia Pig in a classic Warner Bros. short.
- This short fell under the public domain due to Warner Bros. failing to renew the copyright in 1971.
Everlasting influence
- The end of the cartoon contains what would later became an out-of-character moment for Daffy, where he calls Bugs Bunny as his "hero." Daffy would later be 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!
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References
- ↑ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.
- ↑ "Raymond Scott's Music in WB Cartoons" - Official Raymond Scott site. RaymondScott.com. Archived from the original on May 10, 2008.
