Hitting the Trail for Hallelujah Land

Hitting the Trail for Hallelujah Land is a 1931 animated cartoon with the second appearance of Piggy Hamhock.

Summary
Hitting the Trail for Hallelujah Land has a rudimentary plot unlike most of the Looney Tunes of the time which barely have any plot at all. The cartoon stars the Mickey Mouse-esque Piggy his girlfriend Fluffy and a canine Uncle Tom. The film opens with a singing steamboat dancing down a song river. On the deck three backface caricatures play the song for which the short is named on the harmonica banjo and bones. Meanwhile Uncle Tom drives Fluffy toward the boat by donkey cart. The scene shifts to Piggy the riverboat captain in a sequence reminiscent of Disney's 1928 film Steamboat Willy. Fluffy joins the frolicking steamboat passengers and reunites with her boyfriend but during the reverly Piggy falls overboard. The pig has a run in with an alligatorbut he makes it back to the boat. Meanwhile Uncle Tom's donkey bucks him into a cemetery. There in a variation on a stock gag featuring a superstitous black man he is scared by three dancing skeletons reminiscent of those in Disney's 1929 short The Skeleton Dance. Tom escapes to the middle of the river but a shoddy boat leaves him stranded and drowning. Piggy saves the day but not before a vaudevillian villian kidnaps his porcine paramour. Piggy captures the villian on a passing mail hook leaving the villian tortured over a buzz saw. The short marks the second and last appearance of the characters Piggy and Fluffy.