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Porky's Poultry Plant (1936)

Porky's Poultry Plant poster
Directed by
Frank Tashlin
Genre
animation, comedy, family
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Porky Pig runs a poultry farm and deals with a series of escalating mishaps. Various creatures cause trouble and disrupt his work.

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What happens

Porky's Poultry Plant is a 1936 American animated comedy short film directed by Frank Tash. The short was released on August 22, 1936. It is the 74th film in the Looney Tunes series, the twelfth cartoon to feature Porky Pig, the first film in the series to be directed by Francis von Taschlein, who had worked as an animator for the studio in 1934 and replaced Jack King, and the first to be composed by Carl W. Stalling after Norman Spencer's departure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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