The Isle of Pingo Pongo
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| The Isle of Pingo Pongo | |
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| Production company | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | May 28, 1938 |
| Run time | 8:35 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Fred Avery Roy Rogers |
| Narrated by | Gil Warren |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Story by | Geo Manuell |
| Animation | Irven Spence |
| Director(s) | Fred Avery |
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The Isle of Pingo Pongo is the ninety-seventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on May 28, 1938. It written by Geo Manuell, produced by Leon Schlesinger, and directed by Tex Avery.
Detailed summary
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Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Frank Marsales.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: May 28, 1938 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- It is the sixth of eleven Warner Bros. animated shorts that fall under the Censored Eleven, a group of cartoons withheld from syndication in 1968 for its offensive use of African and African American stereotypes.
- This is the first in a series of Warner Bros. cartoons to parody travelogues films.[1]
- It is classified as the first Warner Bros. short to be classified as "spot gag" cartoon, where each vignette is punctuated by a moment of blackout.[1]
- Although only mentioned in its lobby card and not within the short itself, it is the first Warner Bros. cartoon to use Elmer Fudd's name (despite it being only his first alias). The first cartoon to actually use the name on-screen is A Feud There Was.
Errors
Home availability
- Not available due to the aforementioned stereotypes.
