oscaralbert Review of Porky's Preview

Porky's Preview (1941)

PORKY'S PREVIEW is sort of the reverse of . . .

[8/10 · 12 November 2016]

. . . THE WIZARD OF OZ, which begins in Black & White before transforming into the Glorious Technicolor of Munchkinland, etc., for the bulk of its story. PORKY'S PREVIEW starts in full animation, but soon is Dumbed Down into crude moving stick-figure action for the remainder of the tale. This jarring transition may have constituted an unusual change-of-pace for its initial 1940s audience, but what does PORKY'S PREVIEW try to predict (or "preview") for its more important 21st Century audience? Warner Bros.' Early Warning Looney Tune Division is virtually shouting at We Folks of the Future, "Change for change's sake may not be Good!!" Warner's Warners had the example of Germany fresh in their minds, when an Austrian Corporal promised to perk up a Flagging Economy while purging Radical Jewish Financial Terrorists and Illegal Alien Gypsies in the process (for which this charismatic Master of Media Manipulation was named as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1938!). This clown's pseudonym was "Adolph Hitler," and he turned out to be a very bad dude. So 75 years ago Warner warned us that 1)History repeats itself, 2)If you're voting for a Billionaire, you're saying Poor Lives Don't Matter, 3)Game-Show-Host-in-Chief Rump's soldiers will all be disastrously cut down (this incident is depicted mid-cartoon), and 4)The tiny minority of Americans voting for Rump have doomed the rest of us (and our descendants, IF ANY) to a stick-figure 2D existence, with our formerly full 3D lives becoming a distant legend Posterity may view as a Fairy Tale.