Monday, 14 April 2025

Pill Poppin' Pullet

There’s a bit of stylised action in Porky the Rain-Maker (1936) as a hen swallows a lightning pill and turns into a bolt of lightning.



Cecil Surry and Sid Sutherland get the animation credits in this short, but we know that Chuck Jones, Virgil Ross and Bob Clampett were in Tex Avery’s unit at Warners at the time. John Waltz provided the backgrounds. The ending is a lot of fun, and typically Avery.

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  1. The same stylised action popped up again a year later in Porky's Duck Hunt, after Daffy (or a similar duck) swallows an electric eel ("This is an electric eel, folks"). All to the tune of "Streamline Greta Green".

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