Niagara Fools is the 71st animated cartoon

Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...

 short subject

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 in the Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures...

series. Released theatrically on October 22, 1956, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International

Universal Studios

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.

Plot

Woody violates the rules that forbids excitement seekers from going over Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has...

 in a barrel. The locak park ranger tries endless to prevent Woody from doing it, but ends up in a barrel goingg over the falls each and every time. Eventually, the ranger takes his district with him. The end result has the entire crew going over the falls in barrels. Finally, Woody joins the ranger, dressed up as a police officer

Police officer

A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...

, and gives him a ticket for going down the falls in barrel.

Reception

Niagara Fools became a massive hit in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 thirty years after its release, and is still popular in the country today.

Censorship

• Originally, on the first airing on The Woody Woodpecker Show
  The Woody Woodpecker Show
  The Woody Woodpecker Show is a long-running 30-minute American television series mainly composed of animated cartoon escapades of the world-famous woodpecker and other Walter Lantz characters including Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, and Inspector Willoughby released by Walter Lantz Productions...
  
  , the scene where the ranger was with the Eskimos and Chinese people were cut to him arriving in America.