Pork polka

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Movie
German title Pork polka
Original title Pigs in a polka
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1943
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Friz Freleng
production Leon Schlesinger
for Leon Schlesinger Productions
music Carl W. Stalling ,
Johannes Brahms
cut Treg Brown
synchronization

Pig Polka is a 1943 American animated short film directed by Friz Freleng .

action

The three little pigs each build a house: the first piggy builds one out of straw, the second one out of matches , which collapse immediately, and the third one out of stone.

The big bad wolf appears in the form of a gypsy dancer and animates the first and second pigs to dance along. Only then do the two notice that the wolf is standing in front of them and flee into the straw house. The wolf sets that on fire and both pigs hurry on to the wooden house, which they quickly rebuild from matches and which then immediately collapses again. The two pigs now run into the stone house, which the wolf tries in vain to defeat.

The wolf now disguises himself as a poor violin player and lets himself be artificially sprinkled with snow in front of the stone house. Although the third piggy realizes that the wolf is at the door, the other two bring “the poor woman” into the house. The wolf reveals himself and the chase begins through the stone house. In the end, the three pigs run to the elevator that takes them down. The wolf also thinks he is getting into an elevator, but instead stands in the elevator shaft and finally literally falls at the pigs' feet.

production

Pig Polka is a parody of the fairy tale The Three Little Pigs . A special feature is that all actions of the short film run synchronously with the film music, the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms . Pieces 5, 6, 7 and 17 can be heard in excerpts.

Pigs polka came on February 2, 1943 as part of the animated series Merrie Melodies from Warner Bros. in theaters.

synchronization

role Original speaker
First piggy Bea Benaderet
Second pig Sara Berner
Third Piggy, Big Bad Wolf Mel Blanc

Awards

Pigs polka was in 1943 for an Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film nomination," but could not against Der Fuehrer's Face prevail.

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