Gold Diggers of '49

Gold Diggers of '49
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Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	November 2, 1935
Run time	8 minutes
Starring	Joe Dougherty Tommy Bond Billy Bletcher Bernice Hansen
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Bernard Brown Norman Spencer
Animation	Bob Clampett Charles Jones Robert Cannon Virgil Ross Sid Sutherland Cecil Surry Elmer Wait
Director(s)	Fred Avery
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Gold Diggers of '49 is the sixty-fourth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 2, 1935. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Tex Avery.

Memorable quotes

Porky: Whoo-o-o-o-o-o-oopie!

Porky: Well, here's m-m-m-m-my d-d-d-d-d-d-daughter.
Beans: And here's my gold.
Porky: Go-gold? Th-th-that's my lunch!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Beans	Tommy Bond
Little Kitty	Bernice Hansell
Porky Pig	Joe Dougherty

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Goldville City
      • General store
      • Goldville City Bugle
      • Porky's residence
      • Laundry
      • Barbershop
    • Red Gulch
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Hollywood (indirectly mentioned)
        • Warner Bros. studio (mentioned)

Objects

• How to Find Gold
• Hunting rifle with fishing pole

Vehicles

• Porky's car
• Chinese chariot
• Moonshine

Production

Filming

The film was copyrighted in 1935 (MCMXXXV).

Aftermath

In the early 1990s, a colorized version of this short was produced by CST Entertainment, Inc. It was made using computer hardware to color the print.

Music

The music was composed by Bernard Brown and Norman Spencer.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 2, 1935 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The short's title is allusion to the Busby Berkeley films, Gold Diggers of 1933 and Gold Diggers of 1935, which were both also released by Warner Bros. It also alludes to the California gold rush.
• It is the first cartoon directed by Tex Avery under the Warner Bros. animation unit.
• Porky Pig, in is second overall appearance after his debut in I Haven't Got a Hat, is depicted as a grown adult for the first time. Unlike his previous appearance, his voice is not sped up.
• The bulletin board at the Goldville City Bugle makes a mentioned of the Warner Bros. studio.
• The short was censored when it aired on Nickelodeon:
  • When this short aired in its black and white form, two scenes involving Chinese laundrymen were omitted; the first one involved Beans alerting them to the gold rush and the second when they, after through a cloud of smoke from Porky's car, become blackface impressions of Amos 'n' Andy.
  • When the computer-colorized print was broadcast, all scenes involving the Chinese caricatures were cut in addition to some scenes with firearms, including one where the villain's rear is revealed to have been covered by a metal washtub while Beans tries to shoot at it.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 30, 2007: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 on DVD.
  • September 19, 2017: Warner Archive Collection releases Porky Pig 101'.