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You Ought to Be in Pictures
1940 · Film · short · 10 min
Directed by Friz Freleng
Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky's adventures begin when he tries to enter the movie studio.
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I mean, it's available right here: https://archive.org/details/SongOfTheSouthHD
But also worth noting that it _wasn't_ the first to mix live action with animation. It had been used in shorts and experiments all the way back to 1900, but for a full-length film, Warner Bros. released You Ought to Be in Pictures in 1940. And The Three Cabelleros beat it by nearly two years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIBUlP3GC4
More on that history here: https://www.motionpictures.org/2013/07/from-gene-kelly-to-the-smurfs-2-a-brief-history-of-live-action-animation