The Old Pioneer

A Kentucky-Colonel-type character tells a newsboy about his days fighting Injuns in this nice Harman-Ising cartoon for MGM.

First there was Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies; next, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising created Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes for Leon Schlesinger, and after they lost that contract, got a new one from MGM to create color cartoons for Leo the Lion to roar at. Because Disney had an exclusive contract for the new, 3-strip Technicolor process, they made this with the older two-strip method.

The gags are standard for the era, as is the animation and it seemed as if they simply took the black-and-white cartoon and colored it in, but there are a couple of nice point-of-view shots during the Indian attack.