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Gold Diggers of '49 is a 1935 Looney Tunes short directed by Fred Avery.

Title[]

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[]

In Ville at 1849, Beans is at the Red Gulch to mine for gold. Little Kitty tells her father, Porky Pig, about the discovery. Meanwhile, Beans is at the gulch, and finds gold that is dispensed from a slot-machine mountain. He tells the whole town, leading to several people to follow the cat to the gulch.

Taking Porky with him, Beans and several townsfolk settles out to find gold piece by piece. Porky finds a piece, and when he tries to find more, his hand reaches out from another side and picks out the same nugget that is in his pocket. Beans discovers a treasure chest, which has a book titled "How to Find Gold" with its only contents being "Dig for it".

Meanwhile, a villain spots an unattended pack of gold nuggets, which belonged to Beans and Porky. Beans trails after the villain in his car. As the two have a gun-slinging duel, Beans' car runs out of gas. He attempts to refill it with alcohol, which causes the car to haphazardly speed up, hitting the villain. Beans takes the gold right back, ejects the villain, and takes Porky back home. Porky rewards Beans with Little Kitty's hand in love, but Porky also reveals that he never found gold; the baggage only had his lunch - a giant sandwich.

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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:[5]

  • 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.[5]

Goofs[]

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

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Porky Pig Cartoons
1935 I Haven't Got a HatGold Diggers of '49
1936 Plane DippyAlpine AnticsThe Phantom ShipBoom BoomThe Blow OutWestward WhoaFish TalesShanghaied ShipmatesPorky's PetPorky the Rain-MakerPorky's Poultry PlantPorky's Moving DayMilk and MoneyLittle Beau PorkyThe Village SmithyPorky in the North Woods
1937 Porky the WrestlerPorky's Road RacePicador PorkyPorky's RomancePorky's Duck HuntPorky and GabbyPorky's BuildingPorky's Super ServicePorky's Badtime StoryPorky's RailroadGet Rich Quick PorkyPorky's GardenRover's RivalThe Case of the Stuttering PigPorky's Double TroublePorky's Hero Agency
1938 Porky's PoppaPorky at the CrocaderoWhat Price PorkyPorky's Phoney ExpressPorky's Five & TenPorky's Hare HuntInjun TroublePorky the FiremanPorky's PartyPorky's Spring PlantingPorky & DaffyWholly SmokePorky in WackylandPorky's Naughty NephewPorky in EgyptThe Daffy DocPorky the Gob
1939 The Lone Stranger and PorkyIt's an Ill WindPorky's Tire TroublePorky's Movie MysteryChicken JittersPorky and TeabiscuitKristopher Kolumbus Jr.Polar PalsScalp TroubleOld GloryPorky's PicnicWise QuacksPorky's HotelJeepers CreepersNaughty NeighborsPied Piper PorkyPorky the Giant KillerThe Film Fan
1940 Porky's Last StandAfrica SqueaksAli-Baba BoundPilgrim PorkySlap Happy PappyPorky's Poor FishYou Ought to Be in PicturesThe Chewin' BruinPorky's Baseball BroadcastPatient PorkyCalling Dr. PorkyPrehistoric PorkyThe Sour PussPorky's Hired HandThe Timid Toreador
1941 Porky's Snooze ReelPorky's Bear FactsPorky's PreviewPorky's AntA Coy DecoyPorky's Prize PonyMeet John DoughboyWe, the Animals - Squeak!The Henpecked DuckNotes to YouRobinson Crusoe Jr.Porky's Midnight MatineePorky's Pooch
1942 Porky's Pastry PiratesWho's Who in the ZooPorky's CafeAny Bonds Today?My Favorite Duck
1943 Confusions of a Nutzy SpyYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatA Corny Concerto
1944 Tom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredSwooner CroonerDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyBrother Brat
1945 Trap Happy PorkyWagon Heels
1946 Baby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesKitty KorneredThe Great Piggy Bank RobberyMouse Menace
1947 One Meat BrawlLittle Orphan Airedale
1948 Daffy Duck Slept HereNothing but the ToothThe Pest That Came to DinnerRiff Raffy DaffyScaredy Cat
1949 Awful OrphanPorky ChopsPaying the PiperDaffy Duck HuntCurtain RazorOften an OrphanDough for the Do-DoBye, Bye Bluebeard
1950 Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelAn Egg ScrambleGolden YeggsThe DuckstersDog Collared
1951 The Wearing of the GrinDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize Pest
1952 Thumb FunCracked QuackFool Coverage
1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954 Claws for AlarmMy Little Duckaroo
1955 Jumpin' JupiterDime to Retire
1956 Rocket SquadDeduce, You Say
1957 Boston Quackie
1958 Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones
1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble
1964 Dumb Patrol
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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