Porky in Egypt
Directed byRobert Clampett
Story byErnest Gee
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Danny Webb
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byNorman McCabe
Robert Cannon
I. Ellis
John Carey
Vive Risto[1]
Layouts byElmer Plummer
Color processBlack and White
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
November 5, 1938
Running time
6:56
LanguageEnglish

Porky in Egypt is a 1938 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.[2] The short was released on November 5, 1938, and stars Porky Pig.[3]

Plot

An offer for a trip to see the pyramids in Egypt is shown. The tour then proceeds to leave with a large caravan of camels being used as transportation. Porky then comes running out and chases after the caravan; but he is too late and ends up not being able to catch up to them. He sees an available camel called Humpty Bumpty however, and takes it with the intent of seeing the pyramids, but he ends up lost in the desert and eventually he, and weirdly enough, the camel, start to suffer from dehydration. They start seeing various mirages that cause them to go into a dreamlike sequence where Porky and the camel both hallucinate and hear strange voices. The camel then starts acting weird and Porky tries to calm him down, but fails, and the camel grows more and more insane. Eventually, they run screaming from the desert and back into the town, whereupon they lock themselves inside a safehouse. Humpty believes that they are safe, but Porky is then shown to have similarly lost his mind as he begins laughing hysterically, puts on an oversized bicorne hat with the letter N on it (an obvious allusion to Napoleon as well an obvious reference to his invasion in Egypt) as starts dancing in an exaggerated, chaotic fashion as the cartoon irises out.

Home media

Colorized version

Porky in Egypt was computer colorized in 1995 to be aired on television.

References

  1. ↑ "Warner Cartoon Breakdowns #1!". Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  2. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 79. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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