Plane Dippy
Plane Dippy is a 1935 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[1] The short was released on December 29, 1935, and stars Porky Pig.[2] In this cartoon, Porky has joined the army air corps. Beans makes a cameo drawing a line on the floor during the "Spinning Test" sequence.
| Plane Dippy | |
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| Directed by | Fred Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Billy Bletcher Joe Dougherty Jack Carr Bernice Hansen |
| Music by | Norman Spencer Bernard Brown |
| Animation by | Sid Sutherland Virgil Ross Charles Jones (uncredited) Bob Clampett (uncredited) |
| Color process | Black-and-white (later colorized in 1968 and again in 1995) |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Language | English |
This is also the first cartoon in the "Porky Pig" series.
Plot
Porky is looking to join the military. He briefly considers the Army's infantry division and the Navy before deciding to join the Air Corps; when the recruiter asks Porky for his name, he responds, "Porky Cornelius Washington Otis Lincoln Abner Aloysius Casper Jefferson Philbert Horatius Narcissus Pig," a full name unused before or since after writing "P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P" on the chalkboard that was given by the recruiter, in which he drops it on the floor. He applied to one of the jobs. The sergeant (similar to MGM's Spike) sends Porky through a series of tests, which he fails disastrously. When the other soldiers are being issued rifles, Porky is issued a feather duster and ordered to clean a voice-activated robot plane. Meanwhile, Little Kitty is playing with a puppy, and the plane's control unit picks up her voice. The plane takes Porky on an incredibly wild ride. It destroys a military balloon (the crew parachute to safety). It levels a building except for the clock tower. It crashes through a circus tent, causing trapeze performers to do tricks on his plane. It goes through the ocean, chasing a fish and getting chased in turn by a whale. It even crashes into a wagon load of hay, turning the cargo into straw hats. It nearly destroys several other planes, but they nimbly escape. Finally, a number of other children show up and shout constant commands at the puppy, causing the plane to go totally berserk. Finally, the exhausted puppy's owner tells him to come home, and the plane does so, crashing into the hangar. Porky goes racing from the building and dashes into the office of the infantry division, proclaiming that he wants to "l-l-learn to m-m-march". The cartoon ends with Porky carrying a rifle and marching in formation with a number of other soldiers.
References
- Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 44. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links
- Plane Dippy at IMDb
- Plane Dippy at the Big Cartoon Database