The Old Pioneer

1934

AnimationWestern

In this first entry in MGM's Happy Harmonies series, an old man tells a newsboy about his adventures with Native Americans in the Old West.

Rating

6
3 votes

Popularity

0.1048

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,Harman-Ising Productions

Runtime

8 min.

Status

Released

Release: 9/29/1934

Credits

The Old Pioneer

Rudolf IsingDirector

The Old Pioneer

Carman MaxwellIndian Chief (voice) (uncredited)

The Old Pioneer

Elmore VincentOld Man (voice) (uncredited)

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Reviews

talisencrw

8/15/2016

7 / 10

This cartoon was included as an extra on my 'Manhattan Melodrama' DVD from my 5-film TCM Spotlight's 'Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection', and was the first of MGM's 'Happy Harmonies' series. It's decent and quite representative of animation from the period, from my experiences in this field. The negative is that it had then-typical stereotyped views of Native Americans, but on the plus side, it encouraged friendship, as in the flashback, the pioneer's life was spared when the chief about to attack him heard from the child that he saved its life. I hope to check out the others in this series in due time, maybe on YouTube.

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