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| Directed by | Fred Avery |
| Story by | Cal Howard |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | [1] |
| Edited by | Treg Brown |
| Music by | Bernard Brown |
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| Color process | Black-and-white |
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Running time | 8:14 |
| Language | English |
Gold Diggers of '49 is a 1935Warner Bros. theatricalanimatedcartoon short in theLooney Tunes series. It was directed byTex Avery and featuresBeans the Cat andPorky Pig.[3]
In July 1849, in the middle of the dilapidated town Goldville, Little Kitty observes near a gathering, a poster announcing a young prospectorBeans about to hunt for gold in Red Gulch. Little Kitty takes the poster and shows it toPorky Pig. Meanwhile, Beans strikes gold from a mountain slot machine, rides off to Goldville and puts the word out, making all the locals leave in pursuit of the gold source. Beans and Porky followed by Ham and Ex head off to the gold source and get digging. Suddenly Beans uncovers a trunk containing a book on how to find gold. Then a greedy bandit spies Beans' bag of gold and snitches it with a lasso fired from his rifle. Beans pursues the bandit on Porky's request hoping to get Little Kitty's hand in marriage. After a wild gunfight, Beans supercharges his car dragging the bandit, the bag of gold and Porky along and back to Goldville. Porky reveals that what the bandit stole was in fact his lunch bag.
Gold Diggers of '49 is the first Warner Bros. animated cartoon directed byTex Avery, and the second to featurePorky Pig. The star isBeans the Cat, with Porky Pig as the father of Beans' fiancée, Little Kitty.[4] Looking for suitable characters from the Warners stable to embellish, Avery took two child characters from the previous shortI Haven't Got a Hat, turned them into adults, and, as Steve Schneider writes, "set the studio on track to making adult cartoons."[5]
The short's title alludes to theCalifornia Gold Rush as well as to the popularBusby Berkeley musicalsGold Diggers of 1933 andGold Diggers of 1935 (also released by Warner Bros).
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