Pigs in a Polka

Pigs in a Polka
Directed byI. Freleng
Story byMichael Maltese[1]
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Sara Berner[2]
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byRichard Bickenbach[1]
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • February 6, 1943 (1943-02-06)[3][4]
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Pigs in a Polka is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon series directed by Friz Freleng.[3] The short was released on February 6, 1943.[5]

The film is a parody of two Walt Disney Productions films: 1933's Three Little Pigs and 1940's Fantasia. The familiar story of The Three Little Pigs is set in this film to several of Brahms' "Hungarian Dances", specifically No. 5, No. 7, No. 6 and No. 17 which appear in that order. It is also part of a light-hearted, culturally subversive Merrie Melodies running joke, which would later be re-emphasized with another Fantasia parody, 1943's A Corny Concerto. There is very little dialogue in the cartoon aside from the Big Bad Wolf's introduction of the story and the Three Little Pigs introducing themselves.

It was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.

  1. ^ a b Beck, Jerry (2021-06-14). "Lost Warner Bros. Original Titles". Cartoon Research. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  2. ^ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 53. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
  3. ^ a b Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company. p. 137. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  4. ^ McCall, Douglas L. (1998). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 180. ISBN 978-0786405848.
  5. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.