Porky's Poultry Plant

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Porky's Poultry Plant
series = Looney Tunes


caption =
director = Frank Tashlin
animator = Don Williams and Volney White
voice_actor = Joe Dougherty
musician = Carl Stalling
producer = Leon Schlesinger
distributor = Warner Brothers Pictures
release_date = August 22nd, 1936 (USA)
color_process = Black and White
runtime = 7 minutes, 52 seconds
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0028127

"Porky's Poultry Plant" is a 1936 Looney Tunes cartoon, which is first directed by Frank Tashlin. The music was first composed by Carl Stalling as musical director. When the animated short is viewed in B&W, it was released on August 22nd, 1936. It is most noted for its dramatic camera angles and filmic techniques typically seen in live-action movies, something Tashlin specialized in.

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Credits

* Supervision: Frank Tashlin (credited as Frank Tash)
* Animation: Don Williams and Volney White
* Musical Direction: Carl Stalling

Synopsis

Porky Pig is running a poultry plant named "Porky's Poultry Plant". First, chickens, geese and ducks come out for a bright sunny morning. One little chick is trying to get some chicken feed, but everywhere he goes all the other chickens devour them and soon Porky winks at the little chick breakfast, Porky pretends to throw chicken feed but gives it to the chick, making him fat and all the other chickens are jealous and angry at him. Soon,Porky is looking at sad chicken-hawk kidnapping photos. Soon, a real chicken-hawk shows up and every bird hides except the little chick. When the chicken-hawk is gone,one chicken realizes one of her chicks are gone. Porky and all the birds see that it is the little chick that has been kidnapped by the chicken-hawk. Porky goes on his Air Force airplane and tries to shoot the chicken-hawk to get the chick back. Later, other numerous chicken-hawks go after Porky and the little chick. Soon, the chicken-hawks turn the tables on Porky by breaking away his airplane gun. Then, the mainchicken-hawk holds Porky while other chicken-hawks bite him on the tail. Porky manages to get the little chick back and the chicken-hawks die of lung disease when Porky speeds up his airplane's gasoline into the chicken-hawks and when the hawks fall down,the chickens dig a hole to bury them, making Porky and the chickens the winners of the battle.

Debuts

This was Frank Tashlin's first cartoon with Warner Brothers as a director [ [http://imdb.com/title/tt0028127/trivia Porky's Poultry Plant (1936) - Trivia ] ] . He had briefly been an animator with the studio in 1933, but left after a dispute with Leon Schlesinger over rights to a comic strip Tashlin had created. He would stay with the studio until 1938, departing to become a writer for Disney, but would return once more in 1943.

This cartoon also marked the debut of Carl Stalling as musical director [ [http://imdb.com/title/tt0028127/trivia Porky's Poultry Plant (1936) - Trivia ] ] . He came to Warner Brothers from the Ub Iwerks studio, and would stay for over twenty years.

Availability

This short is on the 4th Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box set on Tuesday,
November 14th, 2006.

References