Monday, 3 January 2022

Porky's Bear Facts Background

A left-to-right pan shows Porky’s tidy farm compared to the one across the road in Porky’s Bear Facts, a 1941 cartoon by the Friz Freleng unit for Warner Bros.


Bob Holdeman apparently painted the background. Holdeman left the Leon Schlesinger studio some time in 1940.

Mike Maltese wrote the cartoon and, I’m presuming, supplied special song lyrics. Porky sings revised lyrics to the Sammy Cahn/Saul Chaplin song “The Girl With the Pigtails in Her Hair,” while the lazy bear in the rundown shack sings a modified “Heaven Can Wait,” a Jimmy Van Heusen/Eddie DeLange composition. Here’s a version of Porky’s song with the original words.

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2 comments:

  1. Pokey3 January 2022 at 07:42

    Girl with the pigtails should have been used for the all too few Petunia cartoons, like Naughty Neighbors, which also had that setting! Happy new year, by the way!

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  2. rnigma3 January 2022 at 17:37

    I'm getting Thomas Hart Benson vibes from that background.

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