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Meet John Doughboy is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Plot
Draftee Porky shows America's Defense Effort, a war newsreel full of military secrets to rally American public support for the war production of tanks, planes and big guns. It promotes the draft while slamming anti-draft politics. It mentions British Spitfire aircraft, but also the importance of American design improvements to it. A driver in blackface speaks in a stereotyped manner. The United States mainland is threatened with direct attack. Several 1941 newspaper headlines include one about a strike at the Ford Motor Company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
Availability
- DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2
- Blu-ray, DVD - The Maltese Falcon (DVD: unrestored, Blu-ray: same print as Golden Collection: Volume 6)
- DVD - Porky Pig 101, Disc 5 (same print as Golden Collection: Volume 6)
- Streaming - HBO Max (same print as Golden Collection: Volume 6)
Censorship
- While this short rarely aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang due to the wartime themes and ethnic stereotypes, it did air uncut on The Bob Clampett Show [season 2, episode 22]. On the rare times it aired on other Looney Tunes installment shows (i.e., Bugs and Daffy, The Acme Hour, Late Night Black and White, etc), the scene of Rochester driving Jack Benny on a military jeep was cut.
Notes
- This short fell into the public domain in 1969 when Warner Bros. failed to renew the copyright in time.