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2 cartoons, 3 different versions

posted 21 years ago by ZOMBIE-8
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Alrighty, I've known about these different releases for some time now. First, we have the original "Porky in Wackyland". This was the first release and was originally in black and white. Next, there was this release, "Dough for the Do-Do". This was half remake/half new stuff. This featured footage from the original which had been colorized. Unfortunately the colorization process at this time would make the quality slightly darker. Later on, as this webstie says, the original "Wackyland" was digitally colorized. The main differences between "Wackyland" and "Do-Do" are alternate gags as well as an alternate ending for each. For example, in "Wackyland", when porky falls through some trap door or something (can't remember exactly, been a while since I've seen 'em) he slides down a long warped slide and hits the bottom. In "Do-Do", he looks as if he's falling straight down, then the angle pulls back to see that Porky is actually floating in the air, with the Do-Do rotating a fake sky background behind Porky. As for the ending, in "Wackyland", when Porky captures the Do-Do and claims that he has the last do-do (once again, can't remember how he captured him in this version), a HUGE crowd of do-dos come in saying "YUP! YOU'VE GOT THE LAST OF THE DO-DOS!!!!!". In "Do-Do", Porky dresses up as a do-do bird, captures the real do-do bird, hops in a boat with him. Once again, he claims he has caught the last do-do, and after he rows away, the same crowd of do-dos jump in the frame saying "YUP! HE GOT THE LAST OF THE DO-DOS!!!!!". Same joke, different execution. I'm sure there were more differences than just these, but none can shoot back to mind. This version, "Dough for the Do-Do", is being released in the 56 Looney Tunes DVD boxset this fall, so the original colorized footage will be properly remastered for the best quality.

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[–] elf242 18 years ago

they're 2 separate cartoons. 1938 and 1949. the remake is not colorized, but the 38 film was. the 49 film is just a color remake of the clampett film by friz freiling

[–] bentforkman 18 years ago

Yeah, but when it was black and white all those wacky fellows with the big lips had black skin not red and blue and green. The best explanation for the 2 versions has to do with the studio censoring it`s earlier racist cartoons. (in this case by colourizing them funny.)

[–] reptilicus2003 17 years ago

Theres only two cartoons...

Why the hell did you say there is three?

Porky in Wackyland and Dough For the Do-Do.

Porky In Wackyland is in black and white and has more brutal jokes
Dough For The Do-Do is colorized and alot of words are changed and all the same stuff is there, with a bit changed.

Thats it.

There is no third.

[–] J. Spurlin 17 years ago

I think he's referring to the digitally colorized version of Porky in Wackyland.

In other words, there's the 1938 Porky in Wackyland, the 1990's digitally colorized version of Porky in Wackyland, and the 1949 remake of Porky called Dough for the Do-Do.

If I'm not mistaken, Dough for the Do-Do employed the original black-and-white drawings from Porky in Wackyland, which were hand-colored. The effect is much nicer than the cheapjack 1970s hand-colored versions of black-and-white Warner Brothers cartoons made for TV. I haven't seen the computer-colorized shorts.

... Justin

[–] Jake-219 16 years ago

Another, rather telling, difference between the two is that no directors are credited in "Do-Do." Someone on here mentioned that it was because Freleng didn't like Clampett's work, but I find that hard to believe.

Much more likely (I think) is that technically Freleng was the sole director of "Do-Do" and would have been credited as such, but refused being named, as so much of it was, in effect, directly from Clampett.