Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land is a 1931 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on November 28, 1931, and stars Piggy.
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.
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