Porky in Wackyland (1938)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Robert Clampett

Writers:

Release Date:

24 September 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.

Plot Keywords:

Pencil | Porky Pig | Pilot | William Tell Overture | Igloo

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Mel Blanc	...	Porky Pig / The Do-Do / Various Wackyland Citizens (voice) (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher	...	Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:G (Nova Scotia) | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #4272)

Company:

Leon Schlesinger Studios

Trivia:

At one point in the pan of the various denizens of Wackyland, a character with large glasses comes out of a pot and says, "Hello, Bobo." This refers to animator Robert Cannon, whose nickname was Bobo and who did wear big glasses. On the pot are the words "Treg's a Foo", refering to sound effects man Treg Brown. (Foo, incidentally, is a nonsense word from the Smokey Stover comic strip, a big influence on this cartoon in terms of humor and visual style.)

Quotes:

Porky Pig: Oh b-b-boy! I caught the l-last D-D-Do-Do!
The Do-Do: Yes, I'm really the last of the Do-Dos. Ain't I, fellas?
[hundreds of Do-Dos surround Porky]
Other Do-Dos: Yeah, man! Woooooooooo!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Behind the Tunes: Porky Pig Roast - A Tribute to the World's Most Famous Ham (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

William Tell Overture

"It can happen here!"

In 1937 Robert Clampett was promoted to director and one year later he created his first, true classic cartoon of the many that he would direct for Warner Bros. studio: Porky in Wackyland. Along with Tex Avery and Frank Tashlin, Clampett was instrumental in creating the Warner style. He was an innovator who liked to push the boundaries of the medium, and Wackyland is a perfect example of this. It was also the first of Clampett's many cartoons to use hallucinatory, surrealistic images; others would include The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, The Big Snooze and Tin Pan Alley Cats (which re-used animation from Porky in Wackyland.) Wackyland was later remade in color as Dough for the Do-Do by Friz Freleng.