#porky’s badtime story

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Background painting from Porky's Badtime Story (1937).

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Original vs remake

Scalp Trouble vs Slighty Daffy

Porky in Wackyland vs Dough for the Do-Do

Porky's Badtime Story vs Tick Tock Tuckered

Injun Trouble vs Wagon Wheels

Notes to You vs Back Alley Oproar

Other examples:

Mouse Wreckers vs The Year of the Mouse

Duck Amuck vs Rabbit Rampage

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Termite Terrace Club - July 24th

1937 - Porky’s Badtime Story - Dir. Bob Clampett

1948 - Haredevil Hare - Dir. Chuck Jones

1954 - Bewitched Bunny - Dir. Chuck Jones (Witch Hazel turns 70.)

1965 - Corn on the Cop - Dir. Irv Spector

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Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1937 Episode 20: Porky's Badtime Story

Written by Chuck Jones & Bob Clampett

Directed by Bob Clampett

Animated by Chuck Jones

Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc

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happy 88th birthday to porky pig!

march 2nd, 1935, i haven't got a hat first appeared in theaters. this marks the first every appearance of the magnificent character porky pig. the short was directed by friz freleng and featured the first appearance of many lesser looney tunes characters, including beans the cat, oliver owl, ham and ex, and little kitty. in this short, porky pig is featured reciting the poem paul revere's ride for a class talent show.

fun facts about porky pig!

porky pig was originally voiced by joe dougherty, who had an actual stutter. friz freleng hired him for this reason. this is why the stutter porky has at first seems more genuine than when mel blanc voices porky. the part was recast and given to mel blanc in 1937 because it became too expensive to keep doing retakes of dougherty's lines and recording sessions took hours.

the first cartoon mel blanc voices porky in is porky's duck hunt (1937), which also happens to be the first appearance of daffy duck.

mel blanc continued dougherty's stutter, but tried to make it reminiscent of the noises of actual pigs. when mel blanc took over, looney tunes also began the gag where porky would struggle to say a word and then replace it with another word, which he would say in perfect clarity.

porky was originally intended to be a child, beginning in his first cartoon and represented in cartoons like porky's poppa (1938). in 1939, bob clampett (one of the best directors to ever work on looney tunes) permanently made porky a young adult.

porky wears pants in exactly three cartoons: porky's badtime story (1937), tick tock tuckered (1944) (a remake of porky's badtime story), and brother brat (1944).

porky pig's most common pairings were with gabby goat, daffy duck, petunia pig, sylvester, and charlie dog.

rover's rival (1937) by bob clampett was the first looney tunes cartoon to not only feature the merry-go-round broke down, the theme song for looney tunes, but also feature the end card with porky pig bursting through the looney tunes drum saying "that's all folks!" this end card was used till 1946, although i don't know which specific cartoon was the last cartoon that featured it.

porky's original design featured him having a large snout and a fat body. he was later redesigned to be smaller, but his face remained similar. this is the design you can see in the first edition of his end card. his design was changed to the porky we all know and love after that, which you can see in the second edition of his end card. his final and most popular design was created by bob clampett. in new looney tunes (2015), they reverted back to his original design, which luckily didn't affect any other designs of him.

porky mentors hampton pig in tiny toons adventures (1990). his descendent in loonatics unleashed (2005) is pinkster pig.

the rap sequence in space jam: a new legacy is the worst thing to happen to porky pig in the history of looney tunes (this obviously isn't a fact but am i wrong?)

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Task 1: Story of Robert Clampett

Robert Emerson Clampett was born in San Diego, California, to Joan and Robert Clampett. When he was a toddler, he and his family moved to Hollywood, where they lived next door to actor Charlie Chaplin and his brother Syd. While growing up in Hollywood, Bob was interested in drawing and influenced by actors Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton. At the ages of four and five, Bob showed extraordinary drawing talent which led to him wanting to do art, but decided to step up to cartooning and make comic strips. Later, Bob showed an interest in animation, filmmaking and puppetry. He also began making his own short films subjects in his garage.

Bob attended both Glendale and Hoover High School in Glendale, California, but dropped out of Hoover a few months before graduating. One of his early jobs was working at a doll factory that was run by his aunt, Charlotte Clark. Bob helped design the first Mickey Mouse doll, due to the rising popularity of the character, but he was unable to find a drawing of the character so he went to a movie theater and sketched some drawings of Mickey from what he saw.

Bob started working at the Harman-Ising Studio in 1931, and the first cartoon that he animated was the first Merrie Melodies cartoon, "Lady,Play your Madolini" He had also worked on the Merrie Melodies short "I haven’t got a hat" which introduced the character Porky Pig, whom Clampett helped develop, and eventually become a star. Later when Tex Avery joined in 1935, Clampett joined his unit alongside Chuck Jones, Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland and many others. Clampett left Tex's unit in 1937 alongside Chuck Jones to work for Ub Iwerks at his studio in Beverly Hills where he directed his first cartoon "Porky’s badtime story".

He had also directed the animated opening sequence in the 1937 Joe E. Brown film “When’s your birthday”  Clampett had directed the Looney Tunes cartoons which were produced in black and white under the management of  Leon Schlesinger's brother-in-law.After Looney Tunes, Clampett left to work at the Screen Gems cartoon studio for which former Warner Bros. producers Ray Katz and Henry Binder served as producers. He worked as a story editor on several cartoons including "Cockatoos for Two" and "Boston Beanie"

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Porky's Badtime Story (1937)

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Production cel from Porky's Badtime Story (1937).

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Young Bob Clampett.

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Termite Terrace Club - July 24th

1937 - Porky’s Badtime Story - Dir. Bob Clampett

1948 - Haredevil Hare - Dir. Chuck Jones (Marvin the Martian and K-9’s 75th)

1954 - Bewitched Bunny - Dir. Chuck Jones

1965 - Corn on the Cop - Dir. Irv Spector