Friday, 17 November 2017

Ollie Hogs the Ending

A familiar caricature ends the festivities in The Timid Toreador, where our hero pig’s hot t-teh-tee-tamales vanquish a bull in the ring.

Porky has the traditional hats of victory tossed on him from the spectators.



Then he morphs into someone familiar to end the cartoon.



Since someone will mention it, Porky disguised himself as Oliver Hardy earlier in the year in You Ought To Be in Pictures.

For some reason, Bob Clampett and Norm McCabe co-directed this cartoon. Clampett left his unit and took over the Tex Avery’s, but that wasn’t until after July 1941, so I’m at a loss to understand why the two directed this one. Izzy Ellis gets the only animation credit.

3 comments:

  1. Timid Toreador, not Picador Porky. (Joe Adamson;'s Tex Avery: King of Cartoons made a similiar error).Steve

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    1. Thanks, Steve. I have the png files labelled correctly. This is what happens when you watch three cartoons at once while posting.

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  2. "Porky's Snooze Reel" from the same period also features Clampett & McCabe as co-directors. Not sure why either, but it was just prior to the point where Bob was finally given the go-ahead to direct his first color Merrie Melodies cartoons.

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