Porky's Poultry Plant

Porky's Poultry Plant
Title card
Directed byFrank Tash
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringJoe Dougherty
Tedd Pierce
Dorothy Lloyd
Dorothy Hill
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byDon Williams
Volney White
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • August 22, 1936 (1936-08-22)
Running time
8 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Porky's Poultry Plant is a 1936 American animated comedy short film directed by Frank Tash.[1] The short was released on August 22, 1936. It is the 74th film in the Looney Tunes series, the twelfth cartoon to feature Porky Pig, the first film in the series to be directed by Francis von Taschlein, who had worked as an animator for the studio in 1934 and replaced Jack King, and the first to be composed by Carl W. Stalling after Norman Spencer's departure.[2][3]

Plot

Porky Pig operates an own poultry plant consisting of chickens, chicks, ducks and geese. After a rooster sings a poor attempt of "Reveille", Porky does his daily morning corn feeding. Noticing that a chick could not keep up to the pace of the other birds and starves, Porky baits the other birds with a false throw and gives the chick its feed. Three chicks try and fail to eat earthworms, so Porky plays a funnel like a trumpet to summon the earthworms and allow the chicks to eat them.

Porky mourns the loss of the chickens who were abducted and eaten by a chickenhawk He shakes his fists at the poster of the chickenhawk, vowing to get it once and for all. The chicken-hawk appears and Porky sounds the alarm, causing all the birds to hide but one chick, who is unable to escape. Porky is slammed into a tree by the recoil of his rifle.

The hen notices her missing chick and notifies Porky, who then prepares his fighter plane and chases the chickenhawk. As the chickenhawk's tail is grazed, it calls for its peers, who pull Porky out of his plane then pulls his tail as retaliation. The chickenhawks steal Porky's gun and damages his plane, then throw the chick around as if the entire ordeal is a football game. Porky swoops down just in time to save the chick, calming its mother, and incapacitates the chickenhawks with exhaust fumes. The hens dig a hole that buries the chickenhawks. Porky lands and returns the chicken to its mother, who is soon frightened by what seems to be another chickenhawk, only for Porky to realize it is his weather vane.

Home media

This short was released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 DVD box set on November 14, 2006,[4] and on the Porky Pig 101 DVD box set on September 19, 2017.[5]

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. 48. 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. ↑ Parten, James (January 21, 2020). "Bye Bye Buddy!". Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 21, 2026.
  4. ↑ Rich, Jamie S. (November 18, 2006). "Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Four". DVD Talk. Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  5. ↑ Beck, Jerry (August 16, 2017). "Warner Archive Announces "Porky Pig 101" DVD Collection". Animation Scoop. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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