Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931)

Directed by

Rudolf Ising

Genre

comedy film, musical film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated short follows a pig named Piggy as he tries to save his girlfriend and a doglike character from villains. It was made in the early 1930s and is part of the Merrie Melodies series.

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What happens

Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land is a 1931 American animated comedy short film. It is the fifth film in the Merrie Melodies series, and stars Piggy. This was Piggy's last theatrical appearance. It was released on November 14, 1931. It was directed by Rudolf Ising. The minimal storyline centers on the plucky Piggy's efforts to rescue his girlfriend and a doglike Uncle Tom from perilous predicaments and villains. The short's use of the racial epithet "Uncle Tom" and use of blackface stereotypes prompted United Artists to withhold it from syndication in 1968, making it one of the Censored Eleven. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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