What Price Porky
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{{Infobox film
|name=What Price Porky
|image=WhatPricePorky.jpg
|caption=Title screen
|director=Robert Clampett
|story=Robert Clampett
|animator=Chuck Jones
Bob Cannon
John Carey (unc.)
Jerry Hatchock (unc.)
Izzy Ellis (unc.)
Norm McCabe (unc.)https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animator-breakdown-what-price-porky-1938/
|starring=
|music=Carl W. Stalling
|producer=Leon Schlesinger
|studio=
|distributor=Warner Bros. Pictures
|released={{Film date|1938|02|26}}
|color_process=Black-and-white
Color (1968 Korean redrawn colorized edition and 1995 computer colorized version)
|runtime=7:00
|language=English
}}
What Price Porky is a 1938 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=68}} The cartoon was released on February 26, 1938, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/70/mode/2up |pages=70–72}}
The film is a war comedy, depicting a war between chickens and ducks over food supplies.
Plot
When Porky goes to feed his hens and chickens, a group of ducks steal the corn he sets out. After sending a document filled with insults from the ducks' "ducktator" (Daffy Duck, a.k.a. "General Quacko"), war erupts between the chickens and the ducks. Newborn chicks form battalions from the moment they hatch, with the chickens digging trenches. The ducks goose-step in the marsh, saluting their general, as they use swans and geese as battlecarriers and airplanes. Porky manages to turn the tide with a machine gun improvised from a wringer washer and a bag of corn.
Production notes
The copyright date in the opening credits reads 1937.
Home media
What Price Porky is available on the DVD release of The Dawn Patrol, Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5, Disc 4 and Porky Pig 101, Disc 2.
See also
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0030963}}
- [https://archive.today/20130117223626/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5285-What_Price_Porky.html What Price Porky] at the Big Cartoon Database
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Category:1938 animated short films
Category:1930s war comedy films
Category:Films directed by Bob Clampett
Category:1930s American animated films
Category:Films with screenplays by Bob Clampett
Category:Animated films about chickens
Category:American animated black-and-white films
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