Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.
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Billy Bletcher
- Gold Thief
- (uncredited)
Tommy Bond
- Beans
- (uncredited)
The Californians
- Cowboy Vocalists
- (uncredited)
Joe Dougherty
- Porky Pig
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Bernice Hansen
- Little Kitty
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Tex Avery(uncredited)
- Cal Howard(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsThe year when the action takes place is established by a calendar inside a covered wagon, showing '1849' and 'July' with the '1' for the first day in the third box on the first line (usually indicating a Tuesday). July 1, 1849 was a Sunday.
- Alternate versionsThis cartoon was colorized in 1995, with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white film. This process preserved the quality of the animation in the original cartoon.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery (2004)
- SoundtracksYou're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline
(1903) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Armstrong
Lyrics by Richard H. Gerard
Sung by a quartet
Featured review
Tex Avery's first...and Porky's second.
"Gold DIggers of '49"* is a first...as well as a second. First, it is the first cartoon directed by Fred 'Tex' Avery. While it lacks the wonderful weirdness of his later MGM films, it is significantly better than the Harmon-Ising singing cartoons Looney Tunes was known for at the time. Second, it's Porky Pig's second film. And, unlike the first ("I Haven't Got a Hat"), Porky is older and fatter.
The cartoon is one starring a character long forgotten...mostly because he just wasn't that interesting. 'Beans' (I think he's supposed to be a cat) is the hero here and he and Porky and many others are all out looking for gold in 19th century California. There are a few nice laughs here and there...as well as a few nasty 1930s racial stereotypes which were not that unusual for the time.
*Nearly all of the cartoons by Looney Tunes and most other studios (aside from Disney) made black & white cartoons in 1935. This is because Disney bought exclusive cartoon rights to Three-Color Technicolor--the first true color film stock widely used by filmmakers. As a result, other studios either needed to use black & white or a two-color process, such as those made by Technicolor and Cinecolor....and the colors tended to be more orangy-green than color.
The cartoon is one starring a character long forgotten...mostly because he just wasn't that interesting. 'Beans' (I think he's supposed to be a cat) is the hero here and he and Porky and many others are all out looking for gold in 19th century California. There are a few nice laughs here and there...as well as a few nasty 1930s racial stereotypes which were not that unusual for the time.
*Nearly all of the cartoons by Looney Tunes and most other studios (aside from Disney) made black & white cartoons in 1935. This is because Disney bought exclusive cartoon rights to Three-Color Technicolor--the first true color film stock widely used by filmmakers. As a result, other studios either needed to use black & white or a two-color process, such as those made by Technicolor and Cinecolor....and the colors tended to be more orangy-green than color.
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- planktonrules
- Nov 9, 2019
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- Also known as
- Золотоискатели 49-го
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- Runtime8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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