1.) "Old Glory" is Jones's first short to feature Porky Pig. It is also Porky's first appearance in a color
Merrie Melody since his debut in 1935's "
I Haven't Got a Hat", and his first short in three-strip Technicolor.
2.) Legend has it that during the late 60s, "Old Glory" was regularly screened between rock acts at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Supposedly the Fillmore's patrons drew great amusement from a pig (or "cop" in 60s slang) saluting the American flag.
3.) It premiered at the famed Carthay Circle Theater at Los Angeles on July 1, 1939 - three days before Independence Day.
4.) The animation in "Old Glory" is realistic and heavily rotoscoped, different from the usual Warner Bros. style. Director Chuck Jones was known for his Disney-like style during this period, and Schlesinger assigned him to make this cartoon for that reason. The scene with Patrick Henry saying his "Give Me Liberty" speech was rotoscoped from the Warner Bros. color 2-reel historical short, "Give Me Liberty". That short won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject - Color of 1936.
5.) Unlike other Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons, this is also the first Warner Bros. cartoon short which is not classified as comedy, in fact, it is focused to be educational. A few more were like this later on, such as "
Yankee Doodle Bugs" (1954), "
Daffy Duck for President" (2004), and cartoons produced for the Sloan Foundation such as "
By Word of Mouse" (1954), "
Heir-Conditioned" (1955) and "
Yankee Dood It" (1956).
6.) The copyright was renewed on 1967.
7.) A 1995 dubbed version print (for both USA and EU) is known to exist.
8.) Since the
Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals tape print (which axes out the cartoon's opening rings) for some reason airs on the Polish TV channels TV Puls and Puls 2 as recently as the early 2010s
[1], hence this is one of the very rare non-dubbed pre-1948
Looney Tunes cartoon airings on European networks after 1995, even though an EU 1995 dubbed version print does exist.
8.1.) This cartoon's Cartoon Festivals tape print (which axes out the cartoon's opening rings) also airs on
Cartoon Network/
Boomerang Latin America and Tooncast (evidence in here:
[2], alternately with the cartoon's USA 1995 dubbed version print.
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