Jeepers Creepers (1939 film)

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Jeepers Creepers
series = Looney Tunes
Porky Pig


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director = Robert Clampett
story_artist = Ernest Gee
animator = Vive Risto
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Pinto Colvig (uncredited)
musician = Carl W. Stalling
producer = Leon Schlesinger
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
release_date = September 23, 1939 (USA)
color_process =
runtime = 8 min (one reel)
movie_language = English
imdb_id =

"Jeepers Creepers" is a 1939 Looney Tunes animated short starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Robert Clampett.

ynopsis

Porky is a police officer investigating goings-on at a haunted house. The house is actually haunted, and the fun loving ghost (voiced by Pinto Colvig) plays a series of pranks on the unsuspecting pig. Porky is finally scared out of the house, but he has the last laugh when his back-firing car leaves the ghost in blackface (and the ghost doing a Rochester imitation).

Trivia

*The title is from the song (performed by the ghost) "Jeepers Creepers", from the Warner Brothers' film "Going Places".
*In this cartoon, Porky is afraid of ghosts, yet in a series of cartoons with Sylvester, he is oblivious to all the scary things going on (instead Sylvester is shown as the scared one).

Censorship

*This cartoon was shown as a redrawn colorized version (from the 1960's) on syndicated airings on local channels, on Cartoon Network shows outside of "The Bob Clampett Show" & "Late Night Black and White" (i.e., "The Acme Hour", "The Looney Tunes Show", and "Bugs and Daffy"), the "Merrie Melodies Show" when it aired on the FOX network, and on Nickelodeon so the ghost would be opaque and yellow. The actual editing of the ending has been done in different ways:
**The syndicated showings showed the actual ending, but had the ghost in purple face so the blackface joke would be less offensive.
**On Nickelodeon, the cartoon irised-out after the exhaust on Porky's car blew in the ghost's face.
**On FOX's Merrie Melodies show and the Cartoon Network showings (outside of "The Bob Clampett Show" and "Late-Night Black and White"), the cartoon went to an abrupt blackout as the exhaust on Porky's car blew in the ghost's face.

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