Meet John Doughboy
Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.
Animation
Comedy
5.7
18 reviewsRuntime: 7 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1941-07-05
Director(s): Robert Clampett
Production: Leon Schlesinger Productions
Languages: English
IMDB: tt0033892
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CinemaSerf★ 6/103/17/2024
"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.