Get Rich Quick Porky

Get Rich Quick Porky
Directed byRobert Clampett
Story byBob Clampett (uncredited)
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc as Porky Pig and the dog
Earle Hodgins as John Gusher
Cal Howard as Gabby Goat
Shirley Reed as the gopher
Billy Bletcher as the driver
(all uncredited)[1]
Edited byTreg Brown (uncredited)
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byCharles Jones
Uncredited:
John Carey
Norm McCabe
Robert Cannon
Jerry Hathcock
Bill Hammer[1]
Layouts byChuck Jones (uncredited)
Backgrounds byArt Loomer (uncredited)
Color processBlack-and-white
Color (1968 color edition and 1992 computer colorized version)
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • August 28, 1937 (1937-08-28)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

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]

Chuck Jones, later to be famed as a director, is credited as animator on the short. This cartoon marks the final appearance of Gabby Goat until New Looney Tunes. The short's working title was The Oily Bird gets Porky.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Animator Breakdown: "Get Rich Quick Porky" (1937) |". Cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  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. 61. 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.
  4. ^ https://cartoonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Get+Rich+Quick+PorkyDraft-1.jpg [bare URL image file]