slymusic "Gold Diggers of '49" is just an average black-and-white Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The time is July, 1849. Beans the cat and Porky Pig (not really the Porky we know today) go prospecting, and Beans hopes to marry Porky's daughter Kitty (!). Of course, there's a bad guy in the mix.My favorite scenes from "Gold Diggers of '49": I love how Porky gobbles up a gigantic sandwich and then shouts "YeeeeoWHOOPEE!" I also love hearing cartoon characters sing, even if it's only for a few seconds; a barbershop quartet harmonizes the final bars of "Sweet Adeline" before departing for the big gold strike. AND I like how Porky's long arm reaches in his own back pocket and keeps retrieving the same gold coin he found."Gold Diggers of '49" is okay, but Porky Pig fans will most likely be disappointed with it because Porky simply doesn't have the voice, the looks, or the personality that we are all familiar with. It would take a little while longer for the character to develop, and thank God that directors Tex Avery and Bob Clampett admired Porky so much that they had the desire to work with him.

Mightyzebra This is a Warner Brothers cartoon, made with Porky Pig, less than a year old.In this cartoon, in the 1800's, a cat called Beans has found gold. After kissing his love (the cat who is Porky's "daughter") goodbye, he head off and with Porky and townfolk, he mines for gold. He seems to be doing very well. Then, along comes a robber, who has his eye on one bag of gold - but he did not count on Beans coming along...This is a very interesting cartoon in a historical and plot-wise point of view. It is historical because of the way it is made, which is old and the humour, which is old. The plot is interesting, partly because it was unlike the plots of many of the Warner Brothers cartoons in the future. I like the cartoon because of this and I also like it because of Beans the cat (who for some reason reminds me of Mickey mouse), Porky (who looks a lot different) and Beans' sweetheart. Some parts of the cartoon are very cute.Well worth a watch - especially for people who like historical cartoons and exciting old cartoons! Enjoy "Gold Diggers of '49". :-)

Lee Eisenberg Porky Pig's second appearance (and Tex Avery's directorial debut) does feature a few racial stereotypes, but overall, "Gold Diggers of '49" made me laugh. Set at the time of the 1849 California gold rush, Porky and Beans are prospectors, and Beans wants to marry Porky's daughter Kitty (the three characters got introduced in "I Haven't Got a Hat" earlier in 1935, and Porky looks as if he needs triple bypass surgery). Part of this involves Beans guarding a little something of Porky's.If you've seen any of Tex Avery's cartoons, then you should know what sorts of things to expect here. The gags aren't quite as zany as I might have hoped for, but I try to imagine how hilarious they must have looked the first time that moviegoers ever saw them. If absolutely nothing else, this should be of interest to cartoon fans as a look into the Termite Terrace crowd's early days. Worth seeing.As for the question of how a pig fathered a cat...well, in cartoons things don't have to make sense.

theowinthrop A mildly amusing 1935 cartoon that was replayed yesterday on Turner Classic Movies.Beans was briefly (very briefly) the leading figure in Merrie Melodies, before his lack of any humorous comic personality suggested that he really did not deserve such an exalted position. He is one of the gold miners in Red Gulch, California in 1849 (hence the title - a joke supposedly on the popular Warner "Gold Digger" Musicals). His girlfriend is the daughter of Porky Pig. At this time Porky's size and personality were still up in the air. He is taller and fatter (and quite honestly gluttonous) in this cartoon. Beans brings back gold to the town and a rush starts. The town empties out. One racist joke in the film: a Chinese pair are riding a rickshaw (one is pulling it) when auto fumes (this cartoon has several anachronisms in it) turn them Black, and one starts talking like Amos and one like Andy.When a villain lassos Porky's tied bag, the latter says Beans can marry his daughter if he gets the bag back. He eventually does, in the course of changing his his old Model T into a streamlined racing car to catch the villain.As I said mildly amusing. The future touches of genius that Avery brought to his cartoon work in the 1940s are not found here. But he had to start somewhere, I guess.