Get Rich Quick Porky (1937)

Get Rich Quick Porky

Release Date: August 28, 1937

Supervision: Robert Clampett
Animation: Charles Jones
Musical Direction: Carl Stalling
Animation (uncredited): Jerry Hathcock, John Carey, Lu Guarnier, Bill Hammer

Source: Return of the 30's Characters (Thunderbean Animation)
http://www.thunderbeananimation.com/dvdsales.html

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THIS CARTOON IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

I know this cartoon exists all over the place on budget VHS tapes. However, all I've ever seemed to be able to find is the hand-retraced/colorized version. It WAS shown on the Bob Clampett Show, but it was the computer colorized version from 1992. I've never seen the original, untouched black & white version of this cartoon anywhere else. I decided to upload it here because it is definitely worth seeing in its original b&w form.

It doesn't seem to be cleaned up or restored in any way. There are at least one or two drop outs, most noticeably at the title card fade-in. The zooming WB shield and ending sequence seem to be from a different source. Other than those things, the quality of the transfer is great.

Until WB releases this short restored on a future DVD set, I highly recommend getting the Thunderbean DVD if you want a DVD quality version of this.

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Uncredited animators provided by Dave Mackey's Warner Bros. Cartoons Filmography And Title Card Gallery
http://www.davemackey.com/animation/wb/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• warner
• brothers
• looney
• tunes
• porky
• pig
• gabby
• goat
• robert
• bob
• clampett

[Urilious]

The print itself could be a Guild/Sunset print, with an attempt to splice in the opening shield and vitaphone logo (which would have been cut out by Sunset)

[adimifus]

@Urilious This is definitely possible. I was thinking about taking a shield/ending sequence from a restored short from one of the golden collection sets, and replacing the VHS-quality ones used here. But I figured that wasn't really the point anyway. What actually bothers me more is how the sound from the main cartoon itself fades out a bit early before the spliced in ending sequence. Still, its not a huge deal. The cartoon itself looks great.

[Urilious]

The opening titles appears to be correct, because the production number (8148) matches up. Awesome print btw. Animation is way better compared to those hideous 1968 redrawn prints.

[adimifus]

@Urilious Right. I meant ONLY the zooming WB shield. If you look carefully, you can see that the framing changes slightly when it fades into the Looney Tunes/Porky Pig screen with the production number. The zooming shield also appears to have some video tape degredation (the black smearing/shadowing to the right of bright white things like "Vitaphone" or the shield itself) that the rest of the video doesn't have, except for the ending sequence.

[clarkstuff]

could u plz tell me where u got this? i want the original version!

[adimifus]

@clarkstuff Added a link to the Thunderbean site in the video description. They've got a lot of really good DVDs, including a DVD with all of the SNAFU shorts, which they restored to MUCH better quality than any other other place you can find them, including the Golden Collection DVDs.

[FanimationXV]

I'm already sending requests to Warner Home Video to bring out all the pre-1935 Looney Tunes on complete DVD box sets. It's very simple, you just click "Add to Contact", then click "Send Message" and type in what I said.

[Rlotpir1972]

@Urilious It was also colorized in 1992.

[MrKuwaitwolf]

Maybe this is restored. But, probably in the 60's or 70's

[v4lkyr]

does anyone know where I can get music like this?

[Marbles471]

@superleviathan

The thing about John K is, there's no middle ground with him. When he's on the money about something, he really nails it, and when he's wrong about something, he's totally full of bullshit. I've seen plenty of examples of both on his blog.

[thethirdq]

What a powerful Video. Your passion really comes through!

[SteveCarras]

@superleviathan

You're sure vindictive, aren't you Leviathan? Admittedly, I'm pro-John Kricfalusi blog. I post there as Pokey. [I run a excellent Gumby blog..]

[SteveCarras]

Awesome black and white print,.

[superleviathan]

John Kricfalusi, on his blog, pointed to the gopher at 4:58 as being one of the earliest prototypes of Bugs Bunny (because of his "magic"), in order to imply that Clampett created Bugs

I though it was stupid too, but John is a crazy bastard with an army of braindead followers who eat up his every word hook, line and sinker.