GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

phantom_tollbooth Friz Freleng's 'You Ought to be in Pictures' is a brilliant, atypical Warner Bros. cartoon. Beautifully combining animation and live action film (only Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Porky's car are animated), it stars many of the Warner staff, including Leon Schlesinger who, despite playing himself, manages to be hammier than the pig he's acting opposite! While the animators at the Warner Bros. studio are out at lunch, the newly drawn Daffy Duck convinces the newly drawn Porky Pig that he deserves better than a career in animation and sets him on his way to seeking a starring role in the movies. His motives, of course, are to get rid of Porky so that he can take his place as Warner's big star. An early glimpse of the greedy, narcissistic version of Daffy (as opposed to the crazy version of Daffy more commonly seen in these early black and white shorts), this is also another clear case of Daffy stealing the cartoon, something that would lead to life imitating art as Daffy really did replace Porky as Warner's most popular star. Porky's trip to a movie studio and his high speed chase through the streets to get his job back make 'You Ought to be in Pictures' seem more epically expansive than the average short of this era and the interaction between real life and animation is surprisingly smooth for such an early example of the two mediums coexisting. All in all, 'You Ought to be in Pictures' is a fascinating, entertaining short which is extremely easy to love. Ironically, having achieved his aim of replacing Porky as a comedy star, Daffy would be complaining of being typecast as a comedy player just ten years later in Chuck Jones's 'The Scarlet Pumpernickel'. There's just no pleasing some ducks!

ccthemovieman-1 Wow, this is different, and way ahead of its time, that's for sure. You have a 1940 cartoon that mixes live characters with cartoon ones, such as Porky Pig. This is almost a half-century before "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" came out!We are at the artist's studio where Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are drawn and when everyone goes to lunch, Daffy comes alive and asks Porky, "Say, you want a good job?""I know where you can get a good job in features as Bette Davis' leading man," says the duckster. Porky is reluctant, saying he already as a good job and a contract but Daffy, sounding the Devil pouring bad advice into Porky's ear, advises him to go up and tell the boss that "I quit." Unfortunately for Porky, Daffy's advice wasn't very good.I loved Porky's line to the boss: "What's Errol Flynn got that I haven't?"Notes: It was interesting to see Looney Tunes producer Leon Schlesinger, although he wasn't much of an actor, and the voice behind all these famous characters, Mel Blanc, who plays both a security guard and a stagehand......This cartoon runs almost 10 minutes, which is several minutes longer than normal.

MartinHafer This is a really cool cartoon. It begins with Daffy trying to convince Porky that he's too good to remain with Looney Tunes and he should try for bigger things! So, Porky walks out of the cartoon and into real life--similar to what you later saw in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. Porky first goes to Looney Tunes chief, Leon Schlessinger, and asks if he can have his contract. Mr. Schlessinger agrees and Porky is now a free agent. However, he finds that life outside of cartoons is a lot tougher than he thought and he finally returns to Mr. Schlessinger to beg for his job back! This cartoon is so inventive and shows so much behind the scenes material that it is a must for old movie buffs. A delightful film and way ahead of its time.

bobc-5 As part of his plan to eliminate the competition, Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to seek his fame and fortune in feature movies. After convincing producer Leon Schlesinger to tear up his contract, Porky heads out to a hollywood studio to look for a job, but all he finds is a lot of trouble.The only animation seen in the film is Daffy, Porky, and Porky's car. This is not only unique for a Warner Brothers cartoon, it may at the time have been the most ambitious effort ever to combine animation with live action footage. Although extremely simple by today's standards, nothing done since can match the brilliant creativity and direction which makes this such a hilarious success.The real strength of the film, however, is Porky. We might consider this the ultimate ensemble film, since Porky can only attain such incredible heights through the combination of efforts by Friz Freleng (director), Mel Blanc (voice), Jack Miller (writer) and Norman Cohen (animator). For 8 glorious minutes, Porky is every bit the comedic actor that Charlie Chaplin was at his very best.