Pied Piper Porky

Pied Piper Porky
Title card
Directed byRobert Clampett
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byJohn Carey
Dave Hoffman
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • November 3, 1939 (1939-11-03)
Running time
7 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Pied Piper Porky is a 1939 American animated comedy short film directed by Robert Clampett.[1] The short was released on November 3, 1939.[2] It is part of the Looney Tunes series and the 66th cartoon to feature Porky Pig.[3]

Plot

Porky Pig serves as the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who leads all but one rat to their deaths in a bid to rid the town of its rat infestation. The sole surviving rat is too smart to fall for Porky's music, and after being led to a mousetrap which he does not fall for, he destroys Porky's clarinet. Porky reluctantly uses a cat to catch the rat; the cat is scared at first, but is too self aware to let this pass. He is eventually defeated by the rat who wins in tic-tac-toe against him and tricks him into slamming into a wall. Eight of his nine lives leave, but the ninth is forced into the cat's body by Porky, who revives him with catnip, but he is unable to defeat the rat even with the strength of nine lives.

Home media

The short was released on disc 4 of the Porky Pig 101 DVD set.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 93. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004), "Filmography 1939", Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945, McFarland & Company, pp. 95–96, ISBN 978-0786481699
  4. ↑ Beck, Jerry (August 16, 2017). "Warner Archive Announces "Porky Pig 101" DVD Collection". Animation Scoop. Retrieved August 1, 2026.
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