- Gold Diggers of '49
"Gold Diggers of '49" is a
1935 Warner Bros. theatricalcartoon short in the "Looney Tunes " series. This film is the very first cartoon directed byTex Avery for Warner Brothers., and is the second Warners cartoon to feature the characterPorky Pig . The star is Beans the Cat, with Porky Pig as the father of Beans' fiancée (Little Kitty). Beans and Porky set out to find gold and run into some meanies along the way.The short's title is a parody of
Busby Berkeley movies popular in the 1930s that often carried "gold digger" names and the year of production (which were also released by WB).It was released on
DVD onOctober 30 ,2007 in the "".Censorship
*When this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon, the scenes with the Chinese dry cleaners racing along with the other characters in search of gold (and digging for gold in the mine) were cut. Also cut was the sequence where a villain uses a metal tub to deflect bullets from Beans's gun as he's shooting him.
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