Porky's Snooze Reel

Porky's Snooze Reel is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett and Norman McCabe.
== Title ==
The title is a play on a "newsreel."
== Plot ==
Porky shows a newsreel parody. It includes an Elks parade; bad tax advice; a Swiss navy battleship; Lew Lehr presents a dog show; a flooded town; a tank trap; a mine that is swallowed by a jellyfish; several new airplanes; a horse race with a photo finish; and a swimming race around the everglades.
== Caricatures ==
* Lew Lehr
== Availability ==
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 5
=== Streaming ===
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== Censorship ==
* On the redrawn version of this cartoon that aired on Nickelodeon, the sequence with the giant jellyfish eating an underwater mine was edited to remove the part after the explosion, where a row of jelly jars land on the ocean floor along with a sign that reads, "Six Delicious Flavors". The computer-colorized version that aired on the same network (and later, Cartoon Network and Boomerang) reinstated the punchline to that joke.
== Notes ==
* This is the most recent black and white Warner Bros. cartoon still under copyright. All black and white cartoons released after this are in the public domain. 
** This is also the only short directed by Norman McCabe to still be under copyright, and the only 1941 Looney Tunes cartoon to be under copyright.
* This was the one of two cartoons that credited both Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe as directors (the other one being "The Timid Toreador" a year before). Norm finished both cartoons while Bob was ill during production.
* The opening debuts an altered version of the opening title card with an updated Porky design, which would be used up until "The Henpecked Duck".
* The film was copyrighted on 20 December 1940.Catalog of Copyright Entries
* The opening music to this cartoon would be reused five years later in "Baseball Bugs".
* The opening shot identifies the program as "Passe News", a takeoff of "Pathe News", producer of newsreels from 1910 to 1970. The joke is that passé is a word meaning "outdated, or old news".
* In the flooding story, the general store is owned by "Adam Lazonga", a reference to a character from the "Li'l Abner" comic strip. He is the world's greatest lover and gives Abner advice on wooing girls.
== Gallery ==
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File:Screenshot 2021-02-03 at 11.20.27 AM.png|Computer-colorized version of the "jellyfish depth charge" gag that was edited on Nickelodeon when this short aired as a redrawn-colorized version
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PorkysSnoozeReelRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
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== References ==
Category:1941
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons directed by Norman McCabe
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Robert C. Bruce
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons