Gold Rush Daze
Gold Rush Daze | |
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Directed by | Ben Hardaway Cal Dalton |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
Animation by | Gil Turner |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
Running time | 7:11 |
Gold Rush Daze is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 25, 1939.
Plot
A prospector drives to the hills to dig for gold. A local gas station attendant goes on to explain that the prospector is wasting his time: since 1849, he had been chasing gold strikes around the world and never achieving success. The film shows the attendant's various stops including the California Gold Rush, the Comstock Lode, and various other short appearances that never (literally) pan out. Yet as the attendant finishes his story, a passerby spreads the news that there has indeed been gold found in the hills, to which the attendant steals the prospector's car to get back in on the gold rush and hands the prospector the gas station.
Included in the film is a short, farcical musical number, “My Sweetheart Needs Gold for Her Teeth."
External links
- Gold Rush Daze at IMDb
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- Gold Rush Daze is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- 1939 films
- Merrie Melodies shorts
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
- American short films
- Films directed by Ben Hardaway
- Films directed by Cal Dalton
- Films set in the 1840s
- 1930s American animated films
- American films
- American animated short films
- Films about animals
- Animated films about animals
- Films about dogs
- Animated films about dogs
- Films set in 1849
- California Gold Rush in fiction
- 1939 animated films
- Merrie Melodies stubs
- Films scored by Carl Stalling