Hobo Bobo (1947)

Little Bobo the Elephant decides to leave a jungle where he is assigned to the thankless task of moving logs with his trunk for a glamorous life in a circus in America On the advice of a minah bird Bobo paints himself pink to gain access to a ship bound for the US because nobody on the ship will admit to seeing a pink elephant much less act to remove the presumed hallucination After Bobo arrives in America a steetcleaner washes his pink color away and people are now willing to acknowledge seeing the little elephant Bobo is arrested by the police and chained for trial by judge and the judge sentences him to life in a circus where he is bat boy for the big top baseball team and laments that hes carrying logs ie bats yet again