Prehistoric Porky is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
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In the year "One Billion, Trillion B.C.", Porky Pig receives a magazine in the mail. While he is reading it, he finds out that bearskins are all the rage, so he sets out to kill a bear. He goes into the forest, finds a bear, and attempts to kill it to get the bearskin.
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- Kate Smith
- Jerry Colonna
- Ned Sparks
- Tony Galento - on Expire magazine
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- A computer-colorized version of this short debuted on American television networks in 1995.
- The magazine was called Expire, another take on Esquire magazine. "Brother Brat" would also feature another parody of the magazine.
- On the magazine cover, there is a list of names that mostly consists of spoonerisms of the Bob Clampett unit, such as “Cohn Jarey” (John Carey), ”Reve Visto” (Vive Risto), “Tick Dhomas” (Dick Thomas), “Have Doffman” (Dave Hoffman), “Cob Blampett” (Bob Clampett), “Farren Woster” (Warren Foster), and “Mubby Tillar” (Tubby Millar). In addition, at the bottom of the list are ”Looney Tunes” and “Merrie Melodies”.
- This is one of the Redrawn Colorized cartoons that used original theatrical opening and closing titles but retraced.
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