Tuesday 23 March 2021

Smoke Tricks

Porky Pig meets a tough kid smoking a cigar in Wholly Smoke, a 1938 cartoon from the Frank Tashlin unit.

The tough kid pulls off some smoke tricks, creating a target and landing a bull’s-eye; pulling a rabbit out of his hat, and fashioning a duck that flies away.



It’s Porky’s turn. The arrow spears him in the butt and the duck lays an egg on him (writer George Manuell skipped a rabbit joke). Carl Stalling plays “The Merry-Go-Round Went Down” through all this.



Bob Bentley is the credited animator.

1 comment:

  1. Porky doesn't even keep his promise to The Almighty at the end--He smokes like a chimney in Rocket Squad and Deduce, You Say (both 1956).

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