Unlike the other reviewer I saw this cartoon in beautiful black and white, not the colorized version. I can understand that a poorly realized color version of this cartoon would have affected one's opinions of it. I was most impressed by the wonderfully cinematic shots done from a ground level in a simulated three dimensional perspective. The rows of corn being planted by Porky and then harvested by the chickens had an immediacy and an impact that few other cartoons had at the time. I only saw this cartoon once but it made a much bigger impression on me than the earlier Porky cartoon dealing with a similar subject, "Porky's Garden." From a historical perspective movie cameras at the time were big and bulky so doing something similar to this in live action would have been impossible.
Review of Porky's Spring Planting
