The Pig's Curly Tail

In this 1930 animated-live-action hybrid, Walter Lantz explores the chaotic intersection of creative obsession and slapstick absurdity. The narrative follows a pair of opportunistic swine who liberate a Ford automobile from the haughty Mrs. Hippo, triggering a high-stakes pursuit by law enforcement. The chase culminates in a catastrophic collision with a stone barrier, launching the protagonists into a commercial laundry facility. A harrowing encounter with a mechanical clothes-wringer serves as the film's surrealist climax, physically altering the pigs' anatomy into the titular corkscrew shape. The film concludes with a meta-textual twist, revealing Lantz himself at the drawing board, only to be apprehended by asylum guards—suggesting that the very act of creation is a form of madness.