The Blow Out

The Blow Out
Looney Tunes series
File:The Blow Out.jpg Title Card
Directed by	Tex Avery
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Voices by	Joe Dougherty Sara Berner Lucille LaVerne
Music by	Bernard Brown
Animation by	Charles Jones Sid Sutherland Robert Clampett (uncredited)
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	April 24, 1936 (USA)
Color process	Black & White
Running time	7:30
Language	English
Preceded by	The Fire Alarm
Followed by	Westward Whoa

The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery.

Plot

While a mad bomber is terrorizing the city, Porky Pig (depicted here as a child character) is searching for money in order to buy an ice cream soda. He is earning a few cents retrieving lost or stolen items for people (such as a cane for an old man and a purse for a society matron) when he stumbles upon the bomber's lost bomb. The bomber tries to get away, but ends up getting defeated by Porky's relentless pursuit in trying to give the bomb back. Porky is given a cash reward and treats himself to an ice cream soda feast.

Outside references

Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels The Crying of Lot 49 (Vintage, 2000, p63) and Gravity's Rainbow.

Notes

This is the first solo Porky Pig cartoon.

External links

• The Blow Out at IMDb
• The Blow Out at the Big Cartoon DataBase