The Blow Out

The Blow Out

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = The Blow Out
series = Looney Tunes


caption = Screenshot of Title
director = Tex Avery
animator = Chuck Jones
Sid Sutherland
voice_actor = Joe Dougherty
Billy Bletcher
Mel Blanc
Lucille Laverne
musician = Bernard Brown
producer = Leon Schlesinger
distributer = Warner Bros.
release_date = April 24, 1936 (USA)
color_process = Black & White
runtime = 7 min, 30 sec
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0027371

"The Blow Out" is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery.

Plot

While a mad bomber is terrorizing the city, Porky Pig (depicted here as a child character) needs money to buy an ice cream soda. He earns a few cents retrieving lost items for people (such as a cane for an old man and a purse for a society matron) and stumbles upon the bomber's lost bomb. The bomber tries to get away, but ends up getting defeated by Porky's relentless pursuit in trying to give the bomb back. Porky is given a cash reward and spends it all on ice cream sodas.

Outside references

Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbow".

Censorship

*When this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon, the part where the bomber closes the manhole to lock Porky inside (who has the bomb, thinking the bomber dropped it) and says, "Now I'll fix the little pest so he'll be blown to pieces whether you people like it or not," was cut. [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ltcutsb.html]

External links

*imdb title|0027371
*"The Blow Out" at Big Cartoon Database [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/173-Blow_Out.html]


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