The Village Smithy

The Village Smithy
Short Information
Notes:	1.) This is the first cartoon to use "Porky's Signature" theme as the opening theme. However, this prototype variation of the theme is only used for this cartoon. 2.) This is one of the redrawn colorized cartoons that used original theatrical opening and closing titles but retraced. 3.) The redrawn colorized version used the incorrect 1939-1940 opening title instead of the correct 1936-1937 opening title.
Series:	Looney Tunes
Reel No.:	7602
Starring	Porky Pig Blacksmith
Home Video Releases:	(2017) DVD - Porky Pig 101, Disc 1 (restored)
Found in Streaming Devices:	HBO Max (2020 - ) (restored)
Supervision	Fred Avery
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Uncredited Story	Cal Howard
Based on	The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Animation	Cecil Surry Sid Sutherland
Uncredited Animators	Bob Clampett Chuck Jones Virgil Ross
Uncredited Assistant Animation	Robert Cannon Elmer Wait
Uncredited Sound effects	Treg Brown
Uncredited Film Editor	Treg Brown
Uncredited Voice Characterizations	Joe Dougherty (Porky Pig) Tex Avery (Blacksmith)
Uncredited Narrator	Earle Hodgins
Musical Direction	Carl W. Stalling
Uncredited Orchestration	Milt Franklyn
MPAA No.:	2807
Production company(s)	Warner Bros. Cartoons Leon Schlesinger Studios Vitaphone
Distributor	Warner Bros.
Release date(s):	December 5, 1936
Color process	Black and white
Language	English
Preceded by	The CooCoo Nut Grove
Followed by	Porky in the North Woods
External links
IMDb page

The Village Smithy is a 1936 Looney Tunes short directed by Fred Avery.

Plot

Based on the poem of the same name, as the blacksmith's assistant Porky gives him a rubber horseshoe, then a hot horseshoe on the back of the horse by accident.

Censorship

On Nickelodeon's computer-colorized version, the scene where the blacksmith pulls out a gun and shoots a rubber horseshoe in a vice to keep it from moving was cut.

Gallery

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Title card (unrestored)

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Title card (Porky Pig 101)

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Cropped screenshot of 2020 re-restoration

References

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1930s I Haven't Got a Hat • Gold Diggers of '49 • Plane Dippy • Alpine Antics • Boom Boom • The Blow Out • Westward Whoa • Fish Tales • Shanghaied Shipmates • Porky's Pet • Porky the Rain-Maker • Porky's Poultry Plant • Porky's Moving Day • Milk and Money • Little Beau Porky • The Village Smithy • Porky in the North Woods • Porky the Wrestler • Porky's Road Race • Picador Porky • Porky's Romance • Porky's Duck Hunt • Porky and Gabby • Porky's Building • Porky's Super Service • Porky's Badtime Story • Porky's Railroad • Get Rich Quick Porky • Porky's Garden • Rover's Rival • The Case of the Stuttering Pig • Porky's Double Trouble • Porky's Hero Agency • Porky's Poppa • Porky at the Crocadero • What Price Porky • Porky's Phoney Express • Porky's Five & Ten • Porky's Hare Hunt • Injun Trouble • Porky the Fireman • Porky's Party • Porky's Spring Planting • Porky & Daffy • Wholly Smoke • Porky in Wackyland • Porky's Naughty Nephew • Porky in Egypt • The Daffy Doc • Porky the Gob • The Lone Stranger and Porky • It's an Ill Wind • Porky's Tire Trouble • Porky's Movie Mystery • Chicken Jitters • Porky and Teabiscuit • Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. • Polar Pals • Scalp Trouble • Old Glory • Porky's Picnic • Wise Quacks • Porky's Hotel • Jeepers Creepers • Naughty Neighbors • Pied Piper Porky • Porky the Giant Killer • The Film Fan 1940s Porky's Last Stand • Africa Squeaks • Ali-Baba Bound • Pilgrim Porky • Slap Happy Pappy • Porky's Poor Fish • You Ought to Be in Pictures • The Chewin' Bruin • Porky's Baseball Broadcast • Patient Porky • Calling Dr. Porky • Prehistoric Porky • The Sour Puss • Porky's Hired Hand • The Timid Toreador • Porky's Snooze Reel • Porky's Bear Facts • Porky's Preview • Porky's Ant • A Coy Decoy • Porky's Prize Pony • Meet John Doughboy • We, The Animals - Squeak! • The Henpecked Duck • Notes to You • Robinson Crusoe, Jr. • Porky's Midnight Matinee • Porky's Pooch • Porky's Pastry Pirates • Who's Who in the Zoo • Porky's Cafe • My Favorite Duck • Confusions of a Nutzy Spy • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Swooner Crooner • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Brother Brat • Trap Happy Porky • Wagon Heels • Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Kitty Kornered • Mouse Menace • One Meat Brawl • Little Orphan Airedale • Daffy Duck Slept Here • Nothing But The Tooth • The Pest That Came to Dinner • Riff Raffy Daffy • Scaredy Cat • Awful Orphan • Porky Chops • Paying the Piper • Daffy Duck Hunt • Curtain Razor • Often an Orphan • Dough for the Do-Do • Bye, Bye Bluebeard 1950s Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • An Egg Scramble • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters • Dog Collared • The Wearing of the Grin • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest • Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Fool Coverage • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century • Claws for Alarm • My Little Duckaroo • Jumpin' Jupiter • Dime to Retire • Rocket Squad • Deduce, You Say • Boston Quackie • Robin Hood Daffy • China Jones 1960s Daffy's Inn Trouble • Corn on the Cop 1970s-present Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century • Superior Duck • My Generation G...G... Gap