Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure
1929 animated film
"Buried Treasure" Featuring Eveready Harton, also known as Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure or Pecker Island, is an American adult animated pornographic cartoon short film made in the United States in 1928 or 1929. It depicts the sexual adventures of Eveready Harton (a pun on "ever-ready hard-on"), whose perpetually aroused, comically oversized penis at times detaches and acts on its own. Over the course of the movie, Eveready has a variety of sexual relations with a woman, a man, a donkey, and a cow. The six-and-a-half-minute silent black-and-white film was produced anonymously, reportedly a joint project by three mainstream studios for a private animation-industry party.
Plot
A title card states that Eveready has escaped "a band of Hoary Amazens [sic]" with "his treasure", ending on a desert island.
Eveready is sleeping and awakens to two flies buzzing around the head of his erect penis. He shoots at them, causing the penis to briefly detach and hide. After re-attaching it, he looks around with binoculars, and spies dogs, snakes, and birds having sex, then a woman masturbating with a dildo. He goes to her, first using a wheel to support his penis, then using it as a third leg.
The woman invites Eveready to fondle her breast.
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