Porky ventures into Darkest Africa in search of the last Do-Do bird, and winds up in Wackyland, a surreal place where the sun comes up atop a human pyramid, the Warner Brothers shield comes zooming from the sky, and populated by creatures such as a three-headed Larry Moe and Curly beast. The Do-Do finally appears, to great fanfare, and eludes Porky by pulling out a pencil and drawing himself a door. —IMDb
Clampett joined the Harman-Ising Studio in 1931, and in the early ‘30s began animating for the Warner Brothers’ “Loony Tunes” cartoons. He graduated to directing in the late 1930s, and until 1946 made some of the most hilarious and outrageous of the Warner cartoons: Porky In Wackyland, highlighted by some of Clampett’s most surreal humor; A Tale Of Two Kitties, which introduced Tweety Bird; A Corny Concerto, his Fantasia send-up; the race parody Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs; Russian Rhapsody, in which gremlins from the Kremlin sock it to Hitler; Draftee Daffy, with the little black duck trying to dodge the man from the draft board; Kitty Kornered, with Porky Pig bested by his pet cats; and The Big Snooze, a slapstick psychodrama with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, which marked Clampett’s final cartoon for Warners. After a brief stint at Screen Gems, Clampett turned to television and created the popular puppet show Time For Beany. In the late ’50s he animated his characters for the television… read more
