Pigs in a Polka
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Pigs in a Polka is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 6, 1943 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Friz Freleng, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling.
The film is a parody of two Walt Disney films: 1933's Three Little Pigs and 1940s's Fantasia. The familiar story of the Three Little Pigs is set in this film to several of Brahms' "Hungarian Dances", specifically No. 5, No. 7, No. 6 and No. 17 which appear in that order. It is also part of a light-hearted, culturally subversive Merrie Melodies running joke.
It was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, which it lost to Disney's Der Fuehrer's Face featuring Donald Duck.
This film can be found in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 disc 3.
