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Merrie Melodies: Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931)
Merrie Melodies: Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931) is a 7-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Laugh Track (CH 3) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below).
About Merrie Melodies: Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931)
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.
Piggy drives a steamboat filled with stereotypes of African Americans down a river in an unsubtle reference to the 1928 Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie. His girlfriend Fluffy rides a carriage driven by a canine Uncle Tom. She gets on the steamboat and bids goodbye to Uncle Tom. Piggy dances on the railing for Fluffy, only to fall overboard and be caught by an alligator. He finds a floating log and uses his tail as a propeller to get away from the alligator, only to be launched back into the steamboat.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).
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- Laugh Track - CH 3, Comedy TV
Rights & source
- Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
- Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia "List of animated films in the public domain in the United States" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States), which cites Film Superlist / copyright renewal records (not renewed). Character names/designs may remain trademarks; no character art used in site branding.
- Credit: Content note: This cartoon contains ethnic and racial stereotypes and/or wartime propaganda that were wrong then and are wrong now. It is presented as a historical document.
- Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs not individually cleared.
- Source: Internet Archive
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