Porky's Railroad Discovery

[Leviathan]

AOl has put up Porky's Railroad on In2TV (http://video.aol.com/searchresults?query=Porky+Pig&invocationType=aolvideo-topbox&familyFilter=1). It's the computer-colorized version, but the "Woodpile gag" (arguably the worst racial gag ever in a Non-Van Beuren cartoon) is stil intact in this colorized version.

Since this was presumably always cut on Television when they aired the colorized Looney Tunes, that means the uncut version was colorized and the networks just cut out the objectionable scene

[J Lee]

AOl has put up Porky's Railroad on In2TV (http://video.aol.com/searchresults?query=Porky+Pig&invocationType=aolvideo-topbox&familyFilter=1). It's the computer-colorized version, but the "Woodpile gag" (arguably the worst racial gag ever in a Non-Van Beuren cartoon) is stil intact in this colorized version.

Since this was presumably always cut on Television when they aired the colorized Looney Tunes, that means the uncut version was colorized and the networks just cut out the objectionable scene

All of the computer colorized cartoons were colorized in their entirety, censored gags and all. It was then up to Warners or the broadcasting network to make the edits from the copy of the colorized master they sent out/were given.

[dandu]

I never thoguht AOL could be so cool, I found all sorts of comptuer colorized porkys there, as well as a redrawn Porky Pig's Feat, I'm surprised they colored Bugs Bunny grey, as well as the wrong 1937 font on a 1943 card, even though it looks quite nifty, actually...

[Saranczuk]

I can no longer watch any colorized versions. I'll stick with the originals thanks you. But it is nice to know about this discovery.

[The G Man]

AOl has put up Porky's Railroad on In2TV (http://video.aol.com/searchresults?query=Porky+Pig&invocationType=aolvideo-topbox&familyFilter=1). It's the computer-colorized version, but the "Woodpile gag" (arguably the worst racial gag ever in a Non-Van Beuren cartoon) is stil intact in this colorized version.

Since this was presumably always cut on Television when they aired the colorized Looney Tunes, that means the uncut version was colorized and the networks just cut out the objectionable sceneCN showed the uncut computer-colorized version at some point. I have it on a tape.

[Marty26]

I have to admit, it's odd seeing the fat/stout Porky used in a Blanc-voiced Porky cartoon. Especially considering the fact that earlier cartoons like Porky's Super Service and Porky's Badtime Story used the slimmer Porky design. Blanc's voice doesn't fit the fat Porky design at all IMO.

[classicsJR]

I heard a DVD by Thunderbean has an uncut Porkys Railroad on it. Try that one if anybody needs a copy.

[Do-Do]

I have to admit, it's odd seeing the fat/stout Porky used in a Blanc-voiced Porky cartoon. Especially considering the fact that earlier cartoons like Porky's Super Service and Porky's Badtime Story used the slimmer Porky design. Blanc's voice doesn't fit the fat Porky design at all IMO.

Tashlin kept on with the fat Porky through the end of the 1937 releases, even when the opening titles depicted a slimmer, cuter Porky. Even as a very young child I noticed the inconsistencies and thought it was odd.

[Geezil]

Just meandering down old memory lane to add that a snippet from the earlier redrawn "Porky's Railroad" (the scene with Porky's train chugging along to the tune of "California, Here I Come") also became the opening of Cartoon Junction, the fondly recalled weekday afternoon PD toon show seen on Channel 68 in Newark, NJ, until the early 00s (and in which show's demise lay the first kernel of inspiration for taking that form to the next level with P.U.P. Toons!). :D

[Marty26]

Tashlin kept on with the fat Porky through the end of the 1937 releases, even when the opening titles depicted a slimmer, cuter Porky. Even as a very young child I noticed the inconsistencies and thought it was odd.

I know Tashlin continued to use the fat-Porky design until Porky At The Trocadero. Although the Porky design in Case Of The Stuttering Pig (it's been so long since I've seen Porky's Double Trouble that I don't even really remember what Porky looked like in that cartoon) was considerably rounder and cuter than the Porky design in Tashlin's earlier Porky cartoons - despite still more or less using the Fat Porky design.

[J Lee]

I know Tashlin continued to use the fat-Porky design until Porky At The Trocadero. Although the Porky design in Case Of The Stuttering Pig (it's been so long since I've seen Porky's Double Trouble that I don't even really remember what Porky looked like in that cartoon) was considerably rounder and cuter than the Porky design in Tashlin's earlier Porky cartoons - despite still more or less using the Fat Porky design.

Fat Porky survived through "Porky's Double Trouble", though the promotional lobby card drawing for that cartoon depicted Tashlin's redesigned, thinner Porky that debuted on film with "Porky at the Crockadero" (the idea of trying to create some minor drama with two fat, squat guys fighting it out against each other may have been the turning point for Tashlin, even if the fatter Porky worked better with Petunia's end gag).