Dixieland Droopy is a 1954 animated short subject in the Droopy series, directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dixieland Droopy was produced simultaneously in the Academy ratio and in Cinemascope as well.

Plot summary

An unseen narrator tells the story of a Dixieland-music loving dog named John Pettybone (Droopy, voice of Bill Thompson). Pettybone's one love is listening to a record of Dixieland jazz and pretending to conduct the music. Unfortunately, the owner of dump where Pettybone lives is not a fan of Dixieland, and he evicts the hapless dog from the dump. Pettybone travels to several locations (a cafe, a merry go round, an organ grinder) in an attempt to play his music, but is thrown out each time. Pettybone is heartbroken when his LP is accidentally smashed, but his luck changes when he picks up a group of fleas, "Pee Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland Band." He is chased by the owner of flea circus into a theatrical agent's office, who mistakenly believes that Pettybone is making the music himself. Pettybone becomes famous as "John Pettybone, Dog of Mystery", and realizes his dream of playing the Hollywood Bowl. The cartoon concludes with a close up of the flea circus band, and the narrator revealing "you see, he, that flea, Pee Wee, is me!"

Censorship

A scene in which the fleas "take five", hop off of Droopy's back talking jazz lingo and have a cigarette break (puffing at cigarette butts discarded by human smokers) is sometimes deleted from television broadcasts of this cartoon. However, when it airs on Boomerang (in a half-hour show featuring 3 or 4 random MGM cartoons, such as Tom and Jerry), the scene is left intact.

External links

• Dixieland Droopy at the Big Cartoon DataBase

References