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Detouring America

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Detouring America
Directed byFred Avery
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Animation byRollin Hamilton
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Running time
7 minutes 57 seconds

Detouring America is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

Plot

A tour of the United States, with recurring checks on the progress of the human fly climbing the Empire State Building. Also featured are jokes and gags on the Everglades, the Wyoming prairies, Alaska, a California prospector, Sioux Indians and a Jerry Colonna-esque (literal) Texas cow-puncher.

Availability

Notes

  • Two scenes are excised from the cartoon when aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang United States television networks due to ethnic stereotyping against Indians and Eskimos. They are:[1]
  • The scene with a poor, black hitchhiker at the North Pole, who sings "Carry Me Back to Ol' Virginny". Then, an Eskimo sends him back by taking him all the way back to the Virginia state line.
  • The scene with an Indian mother dealing with the dopey, oversized, adult son she's carrying on her back.

References