Eveready Harton is sleeping. When two flies are found buzzing around his comically oversized penis, he shoots at them, causing the penis to detach and run in fear. Harton calls his penis back and begins looking around, watching dogs, snakes and birds all having sex and a woman masturbating. He puts a wheel underneath his now-hard penis and heads toward the woman. She asks Harton to lick her nipples, which he does; as he does, the nipple begins squirting breast milk, which Harton swallows. Meanwhile, the woman's vagina comes to life and starts fondling Harton's penis, and Harton begins the act of penetration—only to find that he cannot get his penis in, since her vagina is full of junk. Once he clears that out, he penetrates several times before being bit by a crab, which causes the penis to again detach, shriek in pain and run off. Harton runs after the penis, which finally rids itself of the crab by ejaculating on it and reattaches. Seeing the head of another beautiful woman sticking out from a pile of sand, Harton jumps on it and immediately starts humping it—only to realize he has inadvertently given anal to an old man already on top of the woman. Harton attempts to run away, but his penis is stuck in the old man's rectum, causing the old man to be dragged along behind. After some effort, he gets the penis out and hammers it straight. From there, Harton witnesses a farmer having sex with his donkey and challenges the farmer to a sword fight between their penises; Harton bites the other's penis, which goes limp. As Harton makes his move on the donkey, it runs away, causing Harton's penis to get hair stuck in it. In resignation, he sticks his penis into a fence hole, where a cow begins to lick the penis as the cartoon ends.
History
Supposedly, U.S. film labs refused to process the film, and it had to be developed in Cuba. The artists are unknown, but a widespread rumor states that a group of famous animators created the film for a private party in honor of Winsor McCay. Disney animator Ward Kimball gave the following account of the history of the short:
The first porno-cartoon was made in New York. It was called "Eveready Harton" and was made in the late 1920s, silent, of course—by three studios. Each one did a section of it without telling the other studios what they were doing. Studio A finished the first part and gave the last drawing to Studio B Involved were Max Fleischer, Paul Terry and the Mutt and Jeff studio. They didn't see the finished product till the night of the big show. A couple of guys who were there tell me the laughter almost blew the top off the hotel where they were screening it.
When a copy of the short was screened in San Francisco in the late 1970s, the program notes attributed the animation to George Stalling, George Canata, Rudy Zamora, Sr., and Walter Lantz. The short circulated informally, shown only at small underground festivals or parties, until 2002 when it was included in the theatrically released compilation The Good Old Naughty Days.
