Gold Diggers of '49

The short's title alludes to the California Gold Rush as well as to the popular Busby Berkeley musicals Gold Diggers of 1933 and Gold Diggers of 1935, which were also released by Warner Bros.

Plot

Beans and Porky set out to find gold and run into some meanies along the way.

Availability

Censorship

When this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon in its original black-and-white form (back when Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon was a Nick at Nite show and aired mostly black and white shorts), two scenes involving the Chinese laundrymen were cut:^[4]

The scenes with the Chinese laundrymen racing along with the other characters in search of gold (and digging for gold in the mine)
The scene where the Chinese laundrymen are covered in the exhaust from Porky's car and do a blackface impression of Amos 'n Andy.

When the computer-colorized version of this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon (when Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon was put on the daytime slot and phased out its black and white shorts in favor of color shorts, often colorizing some of the black and white shorts they aired in the process), not only were all scenes with the Chinese laundrymen cut, but the sequence where Beans shoots at a villain, who shields himself with a metal tub, was also cut. Cartoon Network aired both the original black and white and the computer colorized versions of this short uncut.^[4]

Goofs

On the title card, when the title dissolves from the credits to Beans' face, the apostrophe in "Gold Diggers of '49" disappears.

Notes

This is the first cartoon directed by Tex Avery for Warner Bros. Cartoons.
In this short, the star is Beans the Cat, with Porky Pig as the father of Beans' fiancée, Little Kitty.
This is the first and only cartoon to have Porky stutter in a deeper voice.
The adult version of Porky used in this short was essentially recycled for Porky's poppa in later shorts such as "Porky the Rain-Maker" and "Milk and Money"; Porky appears in these as a small child.

References

Porky Pig Cartoons
1935	I Haven't Got a Hat • Gold Diggers of '49
1936	Plane Dippy • Alpine Antics • The Phantom Ship • Boom Boom • The Blow Out • Westward Whoa • Fish Tales • Shanghaied Shipmates • Porky's Pet • Porky the Rain-Maker • Porky's Poultry Plant • Porky's Moving Day • Milk and Money • Little Beau Porky • The Village Smithy • Porky in the North Woods • Boulevardier from the Bronx
1937	Porky the Wrestler • Porky's Road Race • Picador Porky • Porky's Romance • Porky's Duck Hunt • Porky and Gabby • Porky's Building • Porky's Super Service • Porky's Badtime Story • Porky's Railroad • Get Rich Quick Porky • Porky's Garden • Rover's Rival • The Case of the Stuttering Pig • Porky's Double Trouble • Porky's Hero Agency
1938	Porky's Poppa • Porky at the Crocadero • What Price Porky • Porky's Phoney Express • Porky's Five & Ten • Porky's Hare Hunt • Injun Trouble • Porky the Fireman • Porky's Party • Porky's Spring Planting • Porky & Daffy • Wholly Smoke • Porky in Wackyland • Porky's Naughty Nephew • Porky in Egypt • The Daffy Doc • Porky the Gob
1939	The Lone Stranger and Porky • It's an Ill Wind • Porky's Tire Trouble • Porky's Movie Mystery • Chicken Jitters • Porky and Teabiscuit • Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. • Polar Pals • Scalp Trouble • Old Glory • Porky's Picnic • Wise Quacks • Porky's Hotel • Jeepers Creepers • Naughty Neighbors • Pied Piper Porky • Porky the Giant Killer • The Film Fan
1940	Porky's Last Stand • Africa Squeaks • Ali-Baba Bound • Pilgrim Porky • Slap Happy Pappy • Porky's Poor Fish • You Ought to Be in Pictures • The Chewin' Bruin • Porky's Baseball Broadcast • Patient Porky • Calling Dr. Porky • Prehistoric Porky • The Sour Puss • Porky's Hired Hand • The Timid Toreador
1941	Porky's Snooze Reel • Porky's Bear Facts • Porky's Preview • Porky's Ant • A Coy Decoy • Porky's Prize Pony • Meet John Doughboy • We, the Animals - Squeak! • The Henpecked Duck • Notes to You • Robinson Crusoe Jr. • Porky's Midnight Matinee • Porky's Pooch
1942	Porky's Pastry Pirates • Who's Who in the Zoo • Porky's Cafe • Any Bonds Today? • My Favorite Duck
1943	Confusions of a Nutzy Spy • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • A Corny Concerto
1944	Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Swooner Crooner • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Brother Brat
1945	Trap Happy Porky • Wagon Heels
1946	Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Kitty Kornered • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery • Mouse Menace
1947	One Meat Brawl • Little Orphan Airedale
1948	Daffy Duck Slept Here • Nothing but the Tooth • The Pest That Came to Dinner • Riff Raffy Daffy • Scaredy Cat
1949	Awful Orphan • Porky Chops • Paying the Piper • Daffy Duck Hunt • Curtain Razor • Often an Orphan • Dough for the Do-Do • Bye, Bye Bluebeard
1950	Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • An Egg Scramble • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters • Dog Collared
1951	The Wearing of the Grin • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest
1952	Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Fool Coverage
1953	Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954	Claws for Alarm • My Little Duckaroo
1955	Jumpin' Jupiter • Dime to Retire
1956	Rocket Squad • Deduce, You Say
1957	Boston Quackie
1958	Robin Hood Daffy
1959	China Jones
1961	Daffy's Inn Trouble
1965	Corn on the Cop
1966	Mucho Locos
1980	Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1996	Superior Duck
2004	My Generation G...G... Gap

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