Shrunken Cinema/Termite Terrace/Dough for the Dodo
From Eccentric Flower
Dough for the Do-Do
1948
Summary: Porky sets off to collect the reward for capturing the last remaining Do-Do.
Director: Friz Freleng (uncredited, see Offreel)
Writer: Tedd Pierce (uncredited, see Offreel)
Featuring: Porky Pig.
Onreel
0:19 This title card is very clearly inspired by the work of Salvador Dali. Sound cue: "I'm Feeling High and Happy."
0:25 Sound cue: "Captains of the Clouds" ....
0:47 ... fading into "Congo" as we cross into Darkest Africa.
1:16 As we cross into Wackyland the landscape definitely gets Dali-esque.
1:36 Sound cue: a little "Peer Gynt" plus a Warneresque steel guitar slide as the sun comes up. The gentlemen are all balanced on a barber pole.
1:45 The "Mammy" duck is an Al Jolson joke.
2:27 The zoot suit craze was over by 1948. Bad, wicked, naughty Zoot!
2:29 The creature with ocean liner smokestacks (passes very quickly) has the letters W and B on them. Warner Brothers perhaps? Or Wackyland something?
2:30 The trunk the tree is sitting upon is very literally labeled "Tree Trunk." The tree itself is growing leaves - of music.
2:48 One of the minor changes between this cartoon and Porky in Wackyland (see Offreel) is that here the head of the three-headed creature which has a bowl cut is a blonde. This may have been to make the three heads look less like the Three Stooges.
3:05 "He says his mother was scared by a pawnbroker's sign."
6:12 Sound cue: "I'm Feeling High and Happy" again.
Offreel
This cartoon is a color remake of Bob Clampett's Porky in Wackyland; the cartoons are so similar to one another that it's easier to list the ways in which they differ. See that page. It is fascinating that the Golden Collection organizers saw fit to include this one first, even though the original has been named one of the "fifty greatest cartoons." I suspect this was due to a (possibly correct) feeling that modern audiences are reluctant to watch black-and-white cartoons.
The fact that this cartoon is a near-exact copy of the earlier one may be why no director or writer is credited. Wikipedia goes so far as to list this as being jointly directed by Freleng and Bob Clampett, and jointly written by Pierce and Warren Foster.
