What Price Porky is a 1938 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Title[]
The title is a play on the 1926 film What Price Glory?
Plot[]
When Porky Pig 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 Ducktator" (Daffy Duck, aka "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 "General Quacko", as they use swans and geese as battle-carriers and airplanes. Porky turns the tide with a machine gun improvised from a wringer washer and a bag of corn and shoots at the general duck, trapping him within a fence, but then he grabs a basket full of eggs, which hatch, and the ducklings steal all the corn.
Caricatures[]
- Benito Mussolini
- Francisco Franco
Availability[]
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 4 (restored)
The Dawn Patrol
Porky Pig 101, Disc 2 (restored)
Streaming[]
Goofs[]
- Near the middle point of the cartoon, Daffy drops his guns, and they disappear before the scene fades away.
Notes[]
- This cartoon premiered at the Strand Theater on Broadway on 19 February 1938 before being released theatrically on 26 February.
- This is the first Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Bob Clampett and Daffy's third appearance overall.
- This is also the first time Bob Clampett directed a short without Chuck Jones or any assistant directors with him; he would continue directing shorts at Warner Bros. Cartoons until his departure in 1945.
- The animator draft reveals 30 seconds of footage were cut from the short, with another 37 seconds set aside for use in another cartoon.
- The scene of the ducks sailing the sea with cannons is redrawn animation from "Buddy the Gob". The water was recycled, but the boats were redrawn into ducks.
- Though a print of such has not surfaced as of 2024, the redrawn version seems to incorrectly depict Porky as a human farmer based on cels from its production.
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