Porky's Preview

Porky's Preview is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Tex Avery.
== Plot ==
An audience enters a movie theater run by Porky Pig. There are a series of short sight gags, including a firefly acting out as an usher, a kangaroo that is taking tickets and putting them in her pouch, and a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk meanwhile attempts to buy a ticket that only costs a nickel, only to find he has a scent. He attempts to find a way in.
At the same time, Porky is introducing the show, which is some crudely-drawn cartoons featuring stick figures;
# The first cartoon is a circus parade featuring drummers, a lion, elephants, a giraffe, and a sweeper.
# The second one features a "choo-choo" train that rides off the tracks and onto the background, to the tune of "California Here I Come".
# The third one features soldiers marching.
# The fourth one depicts a horse race where Bing Crosby's horse is slowly strolling along to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare" (a reference to horses Bing Crosby bet on coming in late).
# The fifth segment is a compilation of different kinds of dances: Hawaiian, Mexican, a samba, and a ballet.
# The grand finale is a performance of "September in the Rain" by a caricature of Al Jolson.
By the end, the audience has deserted the theater all because of the fact that the skunk was able to sneak inside. Porky is surprised to learn about this, but the skunk enthusiastically applauds Porky's film, having enjoyed it because it too "stinks."
== Caricatures ==
* Al Jolson
*Dorothy Lamour
== Availability ==
Lt york.jpg|(2006) DVD Sergeant York
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc Four (restored)
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 5 (restored)
SergeantYorkBluRay.jpg|(2020) Blu-ray Sergeant York (restored, in HD)
== Censorship ==
* The finale of Porky's crudely-drawn cartoons featuring a stick-figure Al Jolson singing "September in the Rain" was cut from all television airings in the United States, including on Nickelodeon and the Ted Turner-owned networks (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang).http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/p/
== Notes ==
* This is the last Porky Pig cartoon Tex Avery directed, alongside his last black-and-white Looney Tunes cartoon he directed.
* The title card music of this cartoon would later be re-used in the Warner Bros. Pictures opening logo used for the Looney Tunes compilation feature film "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" (1988) 47 years later.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ5UIJj8riw
* An off-key, distorted rendition of Carl Stalling's music score "Frat" from sequence #3 depicting crude stick figures of soldiers marching would later be re-used as the closing credits' theme music for the Looney Tunes TV special Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports 48 years later.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVE16RU28Hk
* A poorly-drawn caricature of Henry Binder appears in some of Porky's drawings.
* This cartoon entered the public domain in 1969 due to Warner Bros.-Seven Arts not renewing the copyright in time.
== Gallery==
PorkysPreviewLobbyCard1.jpg|Lobby card
PorkysPreviewLobbyCard2.jpg|Lobby card
==References==
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1941
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Public domain films