Fans of Piggy Pack Theatre

Everything rocks back and forth to Frank Marsales’ beat in You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’ (1931) as patrons, including an enthusiastic duck, stream into a theatre.

There are 24 drawings to this cycle, animated one per frame. This is close to the timing in the actual cartoon.



This starts out as a typical Harman-Ising cartoon for Warner Bros.—familiar character design, girl-friend with a falsetto voice singing “la la la” while getting ready, blackened character exclaiming “Mammy!”—but takes a turn toward the end with some wilder animation as alcohol envelopes the proceedings. Gus Arnheim’s band bubbles away nicely.

This was one of two cartoons starring Piggy.

Friz Freleng and Norm Blackburn are the credited animators.