Old Glory

Old Glory is a 1939 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Plot ==
Porky Pig is a child forced to learn the Pledge of Allegiance. He becomes quickly bored and falls asleep. In his dream, Uncle Sam comes to life and teaches Porky about history, from Colonial America through the American Revolutionary War to the expansion of the American Old West, briefly alluding to Abraham Lincoln. Upon awakening, Porky snaps into a salute and recites the pledge as the flag of the United States waves overhead and the words "The End" pan over the waving flag.
== Caricatures ==
* Patrick Henry
* John Litel - as Patrick Henry
* Paul Revere
* John Hancock
* George Washington
* Abraham Lincoln
== Television ==
* A.A.P. (1957-mid 1990s)
* Bugs Bunny and Friends [TBS] (1979-late 1980s)
* Tom and Jerry's Funhouse [TBS] (1986–1997)
* Bugs Bunny and Friends [TNT] (1988–1998)
* The Bugs Bunny Show [TBS] (early 1990s-1997)
* Bugs and Daffy Tonight [Cartoon Network] (1992–1994)
* The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1995–2004)
* Acme Hour [Cartoon Network] (1998–2003)
* The Porky Pig Show [Boomerang] (2000–2002)
* The Chuck Jones Show [Cartoon Network] (2001–2004)
* The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001–2004)
* Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003–2005; 2019–present Streaming)
* TCM (2004–2007)
* Toon In with Me [MeTV] (2021–present)
== Availability ==
lt viddy pp ttad.png|(1986) VHS Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Tom Turk and Daffy"
lt cel pp.jpg|(1987) VHS Porky Pig
Cartoon Moviestars 11.jpg|(1990) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Porky Pig and Company
Golden Age LT Vol 1.jpg|(1991) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 1, Side 5: Chuck Jones
The golden age of looney tunes vhs 5.jpg|(1991) VHS The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 5
Lt collection further adventures of porky pig.jpg|(1996) VHS Looney Tunes Collection - Further Adventures of Porky Pig
Golden Collection box 2.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc 3 (restored)
Large.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2 Disc 1
lt private lives.jpg|(2005) DVD The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1995 Turner dubbed version)
lt cbts1.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Tweety and Sylvester Volume 1
LTPC VOL 1 DVD.jpg|(2011) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc One (restored)
lt bbot tp.jpg|(2011) DVD Tweety Pie
51LA0AzTVqL. SL500 AA300 .jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc One (restored)
lt 3fcbo.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes 3 Feature Collection Best Of
lt spotlight df.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 2-3 Repack
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 3 (restored)
lt spotlight v1-3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 1-3 Repack
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App ( - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* The flag of the United States has only 48 stars, as this short was made before Hawaii and Alaska were admitted to the Union (both in 1959). Also, this Pledge of Allegiance as recited by Porky does not yet include the phrase "under God" as that phrase was not added until 1954.
* Since the cartoon was reissued in 1945 after Schlesinger sold the studio and retired, the second reissue retains the first reissue's ending card after the flag fades out. The version with the 1945 closing card can also be found on Volume 2 of the LaserDisc set The Golden Age of Looney Tunes.https://my.mail.ru/mail/lusien1960/video/49554/49658.html
** In 2004, the short was remastered for DVD on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2. While this copy retains the 1953-54 Blue Ribbon opening, it does, however, restore the original "The End" card fading in on the flag instead of a fade to black, with credit to Leon Schlesinger as producer. There are no Merrie Melodies rings at the end, or the words "That's All, Folks!", as in other shorts.
* "Old Glory" is Jones's first short to feature Porky Pig. It is also Porky's first appearance in a color Merrie Melodie since his debut in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat". This was also his first short in three-color Technicolor, as the former was in two-color Technicolor.
* During the late 1960s, "Old Glory" was regularly screened on the walls of rock clubs like the Fillmore East in New York City. Most patrons drew great amusement from a pig (or "cop" in 60s slang) saluting the American flag.
* "Old Glory" premiered at the famed Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles on 1 July 1939 - three days before Independence Day.
** Ironically, while this short is very patriotic and American in nature, 1 July is traditionally Canada Day.
* The animation in "Old Glory" is realistic and heavily rotoscoped, which is different from the usual Warner Bros. style. Director Chuck Jones was known for his Disney-like style during this period, and Leon Schlesinger assigned him to make this cartoon because, according to Steve Schneider in his book That’s All Folks: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation, "…was commissioned by Warner Bros. as a counterpart to a series of live-action shorts dealing with American history and patriotism.”
* The scene with Patrick Henry saying his "Give Me Liberty" speech was rotoscoped from the Warner Bros. color 2-reel historical short, "Give Me Liberty", which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject in 1936.
** According to ink and painter, Martha Sigall in her book Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation, “Quite a bit of the animation was rotoscoped from a 1938 Warner Bros. live-action short titled The Declaration of Independence,”
* Unlike other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, this is also the first Warner Bros. cartoon short that is not classified as comedy. In fact, it is focused on being educational. A few more were like this later on, such as "Yankee Doodle Bugs" (1954), "Daffy Duck for President" (2004), and cartoons produced for the Sloan Foundation such as "By Word of Mouse" (1954), "Heir-Conditioned" (1955) and "Yankee Dood It" (1956), although, unlike these later educational shorts where they had traces of humor here and there, Old Glory is an outright serious educational short with no elements of humor included at all.
* The Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals tape print (which axes out the cartoon's opening rings) for some reason airs on the Polish TV channels TV Puls and Puls 2 as well as the Italian TV station Mediaset Italia 1,http://chomikuj.pl/izebel/Filmy/Animowane/Seriale/Z/Zwariowane+Melodie/Pojedyncze+kresk*c3*b3wki/047.Zwariowane+Melodie+-+Gwia*c5*badzisty+sztandar,1646364205.rmvb(video)) which means that this is one of the very rare non-dubbed pre-1948 Looney Tunes cartoon airings on European networks after 1995, even though a European 1995 dubbed print does exist.
** This cartoon's Cartoon Festivals tape print (which axes out the cartoon's opening rings) also airs on Cartoon Network/Boomerang Latin America and Tooncast,http://minhateca.com.br/WaltWalk/Galeria/LOONEY+TUNES+HORA+ACME+CARTOON(1)/317+-+GAGUINHO+-+VELHA+GL*c3*93RIA+-+EP.+317,210020701.avi(video)) alternately with the cartoon's USA 1995 dubbed version print.
* This cartoon was shown in theatres with Naughty but Nice during its original release.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
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