July 13, 1945 – The Goofy Short Film Californy ’er Bust is Released to Theaters
“Howdy, strangers. Now, I ain’t aimin’ pick no argument or nothin’, understand? Cause anybody knows them old ‘civered’ wagons look powerful slow creakin’ and a-groanin’ cross them plains.”
On July 13, 1945, the Goofy short film Californy ’er Bust was released the theaters. This short is a parody of the popular Western films of the 1940s, as the Native Americans in this short are caricatures of the caricatures in the films. A clip from this film was also reused in the 1953 short How to Dance; another clip was reused in the 1956 short A Cowboy Needs a Horse. This short was directed by Jack Kinney, with story by Bill Peed.
The short begins with the narrator setting off with a wagon train with a rather beat up wagon. The wagon train he is a part of sought a speed record when it came to traveling to California, which the narrator says hasn’t been busted yet. The narrator is then revealed to be Goofy, who leads the wagon train on a slow, beaten-down horse named Hamlet. As they pass through Buffalo, New York, a herd of Indians spots them and sends out their troops for an attack. The wagon train, asleep when the Indians arrive, wake up quickly and attempt to attack back, and a comical fight ensues. Unfortunately, the wagon train runs out of ammunition, and the Indians attack with gusto, until a tornado arrives, sucking up the wagon train and taking them out West, right where they wanted to be.
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