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Old Glory is a Merrie Melodies
animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation. It premiered at the famed Carthay Circle Theater at Los Angeles on July 1, 1939.

The cartoon is essentially a retelling of the origins of the United States of America; a special, more serious, entry in the Schlesinger cartoon library. Old Glory features Porky Pig as a young child, forced to learn the Pledge of Allegiance. Porky becomes quickly bored with learning the Pledge of Allegiance and falls asleep. In his dreams, Uncle Sam (voiced by John Derring) comes to life, and teaches Porky about the history of the United States, from the history of Colonial America, to Paul Revere's ride, to the American Revolutionary War, to the expansion to the American Old West. Upon awakening, Porky immediately memorizes the Pledge, and snapping into a salute, recites the pledge as the Flag of the United States waves overhead.

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Unlike the usual Warner Bros. style, the animation in Old Glory is very realistic and heavily based in rotoscope. Director Chuck Jones was known for his Disney-like style during this period, and Schlesinger assigned him to make this cartoon for that reason. Old Glory is Jones' first short to feature Porky Pig.
Note that the Flag of the United States has only 48 stars, as this short was made before Hawaii and Alaska's admittances to the Union. Also, this Pledge of Allegiance does not yet include the phrase "under God". That phrase was not added until 1954.
The scene with Patrick Henry saying his "Give Me Liberty" speech was rotoscoped from the Warner Bros. color 2-reel historical short, Give Me Liberty. That short won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject - Color
of 1936.

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