Get Rich Quick Porky
Get Rich Quick Porky | |
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Directed by | |
Edited by | Treg Brown (uncredited) |
Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
Animation by | Charles Jones Uncredited: John Carey Norm McCabe Robert Cannon Jerry Hathcock Bill Hammer[1] |
Layouts by | Chuck Jones (uncredited) |
Backgrounds by | Art Loomer (uncredited) |
Color process | Black-and-white Color (1968 color edition and 1992 computer colorized version) |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Language | English |
Get Rich Quick Porky is a 1937 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.[2] The short was released on August 28, 1937, and stars Porky Pig.[3]
Summary
The title screen changes seamlessly into a sign reading: "
The two friends, having gathered some tools in the meanwhile, begin their excavation. Gabby, by means of a pickaxe, unearths a can of oil. A dog wanders onto the property and attempts to bury a bone, only to have it spat back at him by a small gusher; the dog has some further difficulties restraining the spouts of crude. Gabby rides a
Returning to Porky, he hits a small squirt of oil that disappears quickly; when he hits the same spot again with his pickaxe, he discovers a piece of the sprinkler system and realizes he's been conned. An angry Porky confronts Gusher and demands his money back, but Gusher (feigning sincerity) offers only one dollar in return for the deed. Porky, reluctantly, begins to hand over the deed. By this point Gabby, still astride his jackhammer, is far beneath the earth. Just as Porky is about to accept Mr. Gusher's offer, Gabby hits a large vein of natural crude oil, which then bursts through the surface and carries all of the major characters high into the air just before Gusher can get his hands on the deed. Porky realizes his new wealth and latches onto the deed, with Gusher also getting his hands on it and causing a tug of war battle. Gabby unintentionally strikes Gusher with the jackhammer, leading the crook to shout in pain and let go of the deed. Gabby and Porky fall to the ground, with Porky proudly holding the deed in his hand—only to find that instead, he has the dog's bone. A despondent Porky turns away, but his sulking is interrupted by the gopher; silently requesting the useless bone, the cheerful gopher transmutes the bone back into the deed, but only offers to return it if Gabby and Porky give the gopher a 50% share of the deed as "partners."
Home media
Get Rich Quick Porky lapsed into the public domain in 1966. It has been widely distributed on discount media since then, usually in the form of poor-quality colorized prints.
References
- ^ a b "Animator Breakdown: "Get Rich Quick Porky" (1937) |". Cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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