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Porky in Wackyland is a 1938 animated short film in which Porky Pig goes hunting through a surreal Salvador Dalí-esque landscape to find the Do-Do Bird for a very large bounty. In 1994 it was voted #8 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field and in 2000 was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress, who has selected the short for preservation in the National Film Registry. Merrie Melodies end title Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. ...
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Robert Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...
Golden Records album cover of their recording of I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat Warren Foster (b. ...
Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor. ...
Carl W. Stalling (November 10, 1892–November 29, 1972) was a noted composer and arranger of music for animated cartoons. ...
Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. ...
See also: 1937 in film 1937 1939 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of Dorothy in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. ...
Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ...
Porky Pig is an Academy Award-nominated animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ...
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalà i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter of Catalan descent born in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain). ...
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The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck, consisting of articles about, and rankings of fifty highly-regarded animated short films made in North America, as well as many other notable cartoons. ...
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Plot
A newspaper shows Porky traveling to Africa to hunt the rare dodo bird, worth more than four billion dollars. Porky uses his airplane to go to Dark Africa, then Darker Africa, and he lands in Darkest Africa. When Porky lands, a sign tells him that he's in Wackyland ("Population: 100 nuts and a squirrel"). Soon he sees many strange, weird, and oaf creatures around.
Suddenly, the last dodo of the dodo species comes. Porky tries to catch the dodo, but the dodo plays tricks on him. Finally, Porky disguises as a paperboy announcing the last dodo has been caught, and the dodo wants to know when that happened. Porky reveals himself and says "Now", hitting the bird over the head with a hammer. When he says "I got the last of the d-d-dodos", scores of dodos appear to confirm this.
Credits The voices are by Mel Blanc. The short was directed by Robert "Bob" Clampett. The uncredited writer is Warren Foster his first cartoon for Warners. Izzy Ellis and Norman McCabe were the credited animators. Carl Stalling directed the music. Leon Schlesinger and an uncredited Ray Katz produced the cartoon. Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor. ...
Robert Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...
Golden Records album cover of their recording of I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat Warren Foster (b. ...
Carl W. Stalling (November 10, 1892–November 29, 1972) was a noted composer and arranger of music for animated cartoons. ...
Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. ...
Humor
Similar shots from Porky in Wackyland (left) and Dough for the Do-Do (right) The film is celebrated for its surreal humor, such as when Porky is chasing the bird, it disappears and suddenly the Warner Brothers shield emerges from the horizon's vanishing point, as it typically did at every cartoon's beginning, and complete with the standard stretched "boing" of the steel guitar. The Do-Do comes from behind the shield to bop Porky on the head and we see the shield immediately turn to return to the horizon with the bird riding it there (with, consequently, the boing sound played in reverse). Image File history File links Porky_in_Wackyland_&_Dough_for_the_Do-Do. ...
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Among the crazy characters Porky encounters is a creature with three heads arguing amongst themselves. From the haircuts on the three heads, it is clear that this is a parody of The Three Stooges. The character then faces the camera and leans into it in such a way that their round heads form a triangle, and a small character explains to the audience that, "He says his mama was scared by a pawnbroker's sign!" The Three Stooges was an American comedy act in the 20th century. ...
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The long pan through Wackyland, as well as several other scenes, was remade in color by Clampett for inclusion in his 1943 short Tin Pan Alley Cats. A Technicolor (and partially Cinecolor) remake of Porky in Wackyland was supervised by Friz Freleng in 1948, and re-titled Dough for the Do-Do. The films were nearly identical, in many cases appearing to match frame-by-frame in certain details, albeit with Porky's appearance updated and the voices having evolved, and many of the backgrounds being different. Some new animation not in the original version was added as well. The Do-Do character is much like the very early Daffy Duck in voice and mannerisms. Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Censored Eleven is a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons that were withheld from syndication by United Artists in 1968. ...
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Isadore Friz Freleng (August 21, 1906[1]–May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...
Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. ...
Notes There were at least two TerryToons plagiarizations of Porky in Wackyland in the 1940s or 50's. Dingbat Land (1949) [1] starred Sourpuss and Gandy Goose. The role of the Do-Do was taken by a minor Terry character, Dingbat. [2] The second film, a more direct plagiarization of the Porky Pig/Do-Do cartoons, starred a British hunter and a Do-Do stand-in. The creature didn't talk, but made strange hooting noises, and flung flames from a tuft of hair on top of its head. [citation needed] Mighty Mouse, the signature character of the studio. ...
Tex Avery, for whom Clampett animated at Warners in the mid-thirties, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy (in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller) and The Cat That Hated People (where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e.g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying "Mammy, mammy", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland). Frederick Bean Fred/Tex Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. ...
According to writer Paul Dini, the Do-Do Bird is the father of Gogo Dodo, a character on the Tiny Toon Adventures animated series. Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. ...
Gogo Gogo Dodo is a fictional character from the animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures. ...
Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures (also known as Tiny Toon Adventures or Tiny Toons) is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. ...
A small clip from the film was used in a Slappy Squirrel Animaniacs sketch, "Critical Condition", as part of a fake Laserdisc release of the Best of Warner Brothers Animation. Slappy Slappy Squirrel (voiced by Sherri Stoner) is a character in the Warner Brothers cartoon show Animaniacs. ...
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The Do-Do Bird has made occasional guest spots in the DC Comics Looney Tunes comic book, being colored in grayscale as opposed to the rest of the art being in color. He is supposed to be colored in technicolor rather than grayscale. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ...
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Clampett would later use the Three Stooges parody when a later creation of his, Beany and Cecil, faced the "Dreaded Three-Headed Threep". Beany and Cecil was an animated cartoon series that ran from 1962 to 1967. ...
Censorship - The Nickelodeon version of this cartoon (which was computer-colorized when it aired on "Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon") cut the brief scene of the black duck saying, "Mammy, mammy," as it walks past Porky.
- When this cartoon was distributed by Guild Films in the 1950s, the scene of the Do-Do popping into frame on the WB shield and slingshotting Porky into the ground was cut. This was done because Warner Bros. did not want to be associated to television at that time.
References - Beck, Jerry and Friedwald, Will (1989): Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Company.
See also This is a listing of the shorts, feature films, television programs, and television specials in Warner Bros. ...
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a yearly series of four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros. ...
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