Saturday, January 19, 2008

What Price Porky?

I'm feeling nostalgic for the OLD Atlantic County Cartoons blog, where every day I would put up a classic cartoon for the enjoyment of animation aficionados. Maybe I should try it again? Here is a war-themed Looney Tunes short from 1938, directed by Bob Clampett (as only he could direct it) ...

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Leave it to a great director like Clampett to take a generic premise like the one in this short (ducks steal hens' food on Porky's farm, trench warfare ensues), and shoot it to the outermost limits.