Mel Blanc

Billy Bletcher

Robert C. Bruce

Robert Clampett

Jack Lescoulie

Leon Schlesinger

Warren Foster

Treg Brown

Carl W. Stalling

Milt Franklyn

Vive Risto

Robert Cannon

John Carey

Cal Dalton

Izzy Ellis

Norm McCabe

Animation

Comedy

Meet John Doughboy

Leon Schlesinger Productions

United States of America

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"Porky Pig" is quite literally drafted, very briefly, into this wartime morale-booster that plans to present us with some top secret newsreel. It starts with quite a fun "Daffy Duck" style RKO emitting logo, but thereafter it descends into a rather clumsily put together animation extolling the might of the US military. There's a lightly comedic basis underpinning it on occasion - a "Spitfire" that actually does, but the jokes are fairly poor and the stereotypes wear a little thin after a few minutes. Sure, in 1941 it had a job to do - and I suppose it does it well enough, but many years later it's near the bottom of the pile of propaganda efforts, sorry.

English