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Porky's Midnight Matinee
Cartoon
Porky is working backstage flipping switches and things while singing and whistling "You Ought to be in Pictures", but he is stopped by a "PSST". It came from an African pygmy ant in a cage and he wants Porky to let him out.
Movie Info
Directed by: Charles M. Jones
Produced by: Leon Schlesinger
Starring: Mel Blanc
Music by: Carl W. Stalling
Animation by: Robert Cannon
Production company: Leon Schlesinger Studios
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date: November 22, 1941
Running time: 8 minutes
Language: English
Country of origin: United States
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