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Porky made an appearance in the Disney/Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) at the end of the film where he, being paired with Disney's Tinkerbell, closes the movie with his famous line "Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks!". It was the last time that Mel Blanc voiced Porky before his death in 1989.
Their success convinced Schlesinger to produce all future Merrie Melodies shorts in color, using two-strip Technicolor. Looney Tunes continued in black and white until 1943. In 1936, the cartoons began to end with the slogan "That's all Folks!" which had previously only been used on the Looney Tunes series. The old slogan "So Long, Folks!"
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank / b l æ ŋ k /; [2] [3] May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) [4] was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. . During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy ...
The tune first appeared in the Merrie Melodies cartoon short Sweet Sioux, released June 26, 1937. [2]Starting with the Looney Tunes cartoon short Rover's Rival released October 9, 1937, an adapted instrumental version of the song's main tune became the staple opening and closing credits theme for the Looney Tunes series, most memorably featuring Porky Pig stuttering "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"
The cartoon is notable for its ending, in which an elephant says, "That's all, folks!", prompting a quick rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along" as the credits appear. The elephant was voiced by Mel Blanc , who coincidentally also voiced Porky Pig , who also said "That's All Folks" at the end of each Looney Tunes cartoon at the time.
The UK single featured "Taking It All Too Hard" as the flipside, and reached No. 16. Also released was a 12-inch single that included a live version of " Firth of Fifth " from 1981. As the band's first break into the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, the song is included in Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era .
At Jimmy Carter's state funeral in Washington, D.C. today, his grandson Jason Carter was among the speakers to deliver a eulogy for the late president. "I understand the impact on the world that a ...
The whole article is pretty much unsourced, I notice. This is my fault; I wrote most of this stuff waaaay back when Wikipedia was still new and there were no source citation guidelines. It's mostly from Schneider's That's All Folks!! if I remember correctly. — Amcaja (talk) 04:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)