A small airplane takes its passengers on a world tour. Some excerpts:
The plane, as well as its shadow, are remarkably flexible. The plane takes off like a bird, running and jumping and flapping its wings. The plane's shadow dodges ground-level obstacles.
The plane passes Mount Rushmore, which includes the two major candidates from the 1940 election, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Wilkie.
In Ireland, a tenor sings "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", while a (cartooned) stray hair keeps appearing in the frame, as if stuck in the projector. The Irishman abruptly stops singing and yells at the top of his lungs to the projectionist, "Hey, you, up there! Get that hair out of here!"
In "Darkest Africa", natives are listening to jungle drumbeats which are used for communication. One native asks another what the drums are saying, and the second native responds, "Boom-ditty, boom-ditty, boom-boom-boom-boom!"
Also in Africa, a native is using a blowgun, but he was merely aiming at a practice target. His target calls him a "terrible shot".
A group of ostriches hide their heads in the sand. Another ostrich arrives, perplexed, wondering where everyone went.
A series of cocoons open up, all of them producing beautiful butterflies, except for a weak and scrawny one: "Well, I've been sick!"
The plane becomes lost in fog while returning to New York City. When the fog finally clears, the plane is attached to a carousel ride.
Both the USA and EU Turner prints and airings of this cartoon on Cartoon Network, its sister channel Boomerang, and as of 2021, MeTV, had two entire racial stereotype scenes cut.
One scene has an African native using a blowgun. It is revealed he was merely aiming at a practice target. A second native comments, "Terrible shot, Joe."
The other scene shows African natives pounding their drums and making signals. One native asks another, "Uh, what do he say?" The other native says (imitating drum sound), "Uh, he say, uh, 'Boom-ditty-boom-ditty-boom-boom-boom-boom, ditty-boom-ditty-boom-ditty-boom-boom-boom-boom'."[1]
