A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pi... Read allA neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc.A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc.
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- Cab Calloway
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- Church Choir
- (uncredited)
- Crooners
- (uncredited)
- Nick O'Teen
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaCelebrity likenesses are used for the living cigars and cigarettes: Cab Calloway, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, and The Three Stooges.
- Quotes
Vocalists: [singing with a whisper] You~ shouldn't smoke, you shouldn't smoke... / *harmonizing* It's no fun to smoke just one/ Take six at a stroke/ Fume and fuzz and sizzle... /
British Pipe: Children should not smoke, rather!
Vocalists: Light a fag and tag a drag/
Bossy Cow: This is not a joke/
Fat-Emma: You will squirm and... /
Owl: Hoo-hoo/
Corn Cob Pipe: Little kids shouldn't smoke tobaccy! *spits*
Vocalists: You'll feel ill and see spots and get a tummy ache/ Inhale, exhale, smoke until you start to bake/
Bing Crosby Cigar: So smoke a lot/ you're on the spot/ you may have a stroke/
Rudy Vallée Cigar: Puff and puff and pu~uff/
German Pipe: Little boys should not smoking cigarettes!
Vocalists: Smoke like that and chew some more/ now that we have spoke/ chew and chew and chew-chew/ Little boys should not smoke/
Vocalists: *harmonizing*
Cab Calloway: [after cleaning pipe] Little boys~ shouldn't smoke!/
- Alternate versionsThis cartoon was colorized in 1968 by having every other frame traced over onto a cel. Each redrawn cel was painted in color and then photographed over a colored reproduction of each original background. Needless to say, the animation quality dropped considerably from the original version with this method. The cartoon was colorized again in 1990, this time with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Atop the Fourth Wall: Spider-Man, Storm, Cage (2009)
- SoundtracksMysterious Mose
(uncredited)
Written by Walter Doyle
Sung with substitute lyrics by various characters, including cartoon parodies of Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee
'Wholly Smoke' may not be one of my favourite cartoons of all time, but for me it is up there among the best of the late 30s Porky Pig cartoons, one of his best solo cartoons and one of his best directed by Frank Tashlin. Tashlin directs wonderfully here in 'Wholly Smoke', the cartoon boasting some of his cleverest, most imaginative and wittiest visuals and not only does Tashlin engage with the material he actually seems to be having a ball with it.
Porky is likeable as ever, effectively playing it straight and he isn't underused or too much of a support character. It will be admitted though that Nick O'Teen, with a sterling voice over from Tedd Pierce, and the smoking caricatures, in the hallucinatory sequence that dominates the cartoon to unforgettable effect, display stronger personalities.
A lot of fun 'Wholly Smoke' is, especially with the delicious wackiness tonally and the various smoke characters and caricatures that are great to spot. It is one of Tashlin's weirdest and the weirdest for Porky, but this is in a wonderful way. 'Wholly Smoke' is essentially a message cartoon, with a message that makes its point without preaching too much. It is also a message that eighty years on is an important and relevant one, more so now where smoking is no longer something that most people back then did because it was fashionable and a social thing but now an increasingly unhealthy lifestyle choice although addressed more in the media about the consequences.
Mel Blanc is outstanding as always. He always was the infinitely more preferable voice for Porky, Joe Dougherty never clicked with me, and he proves it in 'Porky's Building'. Blanc shows an unequalled versatility and ability to bring an individual personality to every one of his multiple characters in a vast majority of his work, there is no wonder why he was in such high demand as a voice actor.
The animation is very good. It's fluid in movement, crisp in shading and very meticulous in detail. The story is paced beautifully but it is a case of everything else making more of an impact.
Carl Stalling's music is typically outstanding. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.
In summary, great. 9/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jan 22, 2018
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- Humo y más humo
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1