Meet John Doughboy (1941)
Overview
Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.
Cast
Mel Blanc
Porky Pig / Soldiers / Horse / Chicken / Spitter Plane / Rochester (voice) (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
Robert C. Bruce
Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)
Robert Clampett
Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)
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"Porky Pig" is quite literally drafted, very briefly, into this wartime morale-booster that plans to present us with some top secret newsreel. It starts with quite a fun "Daffy Duck" style RKO emitting logo, but thereafter it descends into a rather clumsily put together animation extolling the might of the US military. There's a lightly comedic basis underpinning it on occasion - a "Spitfire" that actually does, but the jokes are fairly poor and the stereotypes wear a little thin after a few minutes. Sure, in 1941 it had a job to do - and I suppose it does it well enough, but many years later it's near the bottom of the pile of propaganda efforts, sorry.
