Happy Harmonies - Bosko's Parlor Pranks (1934)

[tonelligiuliana]

@Butterflygirl373 well bosko and mickey mouse came out at the same time

[TheCorpseCircus]

holy shit i remember this.. I WANNA ICE CREAM CONE XD

[Lampshade51]

Pretty funny when he turns into Jimmy Durante!

[AMEwrestling]

If it weren't for Leon Schlesinger, Bosko would have carried Looney Tunes into a new generation. At least Bosko continued on to MGM in color.

[raverjames2003]

I though bosko was warner brothers not MGM

[butterflygirl373]

Wait so this is kinda the very old Mickey mouse show

[NJTotire]

This was before kids had TV to entertain them.

[knuclear2010]

If Bosko was my babysitter, id be bored to death too.

[joneagle102]

he never got his ice cream cone

[BOK23Q]

LOL my name is Bosko :-D my dad got me the dvd of Bosko part 1 and 2 a few years ago ;-)

[friskyfido]

this is actually very funny

[Nodog438]

And I thought the Lion at the beginning was gonna be Tanner...but I remember he didn't star until 1954.

[BlacksPrower]

Who does he impersonate at 5:40

[2reeler]

@BlacksPrower  thats Jimmy Durante, the comedian with the huge nose.

[darebinroad]

@BlacksPrower Jimmy Durante.

[BlacksPrower]

That little kid is gonna become a real man

[refard5]

Bosko is hitting that MILF :D

[thethunderbird87]

classic I love it

[WSenator1]

Interesting! I never saw the MGM Boskos growing up, though I read about them as an adult. It's kind of refreshing to see him get mad for a change. In the WBs he was ALWAYS cheerful. And that little brat doesn't need just a spanking - he needs a 2X4 upside the head. I cheered when he didn't get his ice cream at the end. YAY!

[Marbles471]

@WSenator1

This is the first time I've seen one of them, too.  And I guess now I know what they mean by "two-strip Technicolor."

[Snailguy11217]

CAN I HAZ ICE CWEAM COEN???!!!

[interstateruler]

The was before the BIG WAR

[BigJonB36]

I kinda hoped he was gonna smash the kid in the book

[mikemcgee]

since rudolph ising had made bosco at warner brothers origianlly he took advantageof mgms bigger budjet for cartoons and made it better i blieve this was the first and last in cinecolor if disnety id not hold the copy right of three color at that time it would of been in 3 color technicolor

[BLANKNOTING]

@Johnpicha

Copy That!

"Bosko"...

[DCdorian]

the kid has mickey mouse shorts

[BucketFurter]

There was this concentrated energy and rock-solid sense of shape and form displayed in the very few Oswald / Bosko shorts between 1927 and 1935 with the original Disney studio core (i.e. Iwerks / Harman / Ising / Freleng etc).

Seems like all of Disney's efforts after '35 went into trying to quantify the magic using a series of formulas. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

[BLANKNOTING]

@1000davy

@Johnpicha

You Start Work That...

3-D Animation...

Thank You...

[31operafan]

That kid needs a spanking! He's a spoiled brat! xD

[31operafan]

Bruno looks a hell of a lot like Pluto. And the little kid wears red pants with yellow buttons and yellow shoes like Mickey Mouse. Those things don't suprise me. Harman and Ising actually worked for Walt Disney during the 1920s, while Disney was in Kansas City.

[Marbles471]

@31operafan

It goes beyond that. I'd go so far as to say that Disney's approach during the '30s became American animation's "house style" the same way that the basic "anime look" has become a general "house style" in Japan. Yes, in both cases, there are many different individual styles within that, but distinct trends are definitely there.

Of course, during the 30s, most of Disney's imitators weren't as good.

[avalanchesuperstar]

@31operafan That's not "that kid". That's Bosko, in fact he was the original star of Looney Tunes.

[pokemanmaster03]

man, that kid is so annoying!

[spikeg79]

Watch these vids while you can! somebody keeps reporting these old MGM cartoons as copyright infringements. 

[illuminatioracle]

@spikeg79 probably some faggot avatar fan

[sm37skater]

bosko rulz

[now316]

This lil kitty will RIP UR HEAD OFF!! Coffee RULZ!!

[BucketFurter]

Why, oh why, didn't Disney find a way to keep working with these guys? The world would have been SO different if Oswald the Rabbit (drawn by Harman / Ising / Disney / Iwerks and crew) had evolved through the 30s. Instead, well...we all know what happened!

[Emichwan88]

@BucketFurter Reason he didn't want to work with these guys was because they double crossed him with Charles Mintz. True, Walt himself was straining the animators unfairly, but it was only because of what Mintz was forcing on him...and then after Mintz stole his workers and his creation, well...poor Oswald was thrown to the dark side.

[BucketFurter]

@Emichwan88 A lot of pride got into the mix with the Mintz business. I think Disney should have made almost any sacrifice to keep working with that crew.

You can see tangible regret on both sides: Disney's 'toons became more somber in tone and the MGM folks slid more towards the 'fine art' style of Disney. Maybe their relationship was like a keg of TNT but that same keg gave us Oswald AND Mickey Mouse.

[vmpickle123]

@BucketFurter and Elichwan88 Let's not forget that Walter Lantz did hilarious cartoons with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit with the help of "Bill" Nolan (who is given credit for creating the "rubber hose" animation) and a young Fred "Tex" Avery.

So did a certain "Friz" Freleng for Margaret Winkler.`

The Oswald series jumped the shark after the character was redesigned in late 1935, as an attempt to catch up with the realistic Disney style of animation.

[ksharmaine]

That little kitty is sooo cute, but sooo bratty!

[Antnj81]

They started drawing Hunny with a top

[canonet17]

at 7:37, and its a quick frame, they have BOSKO written on the "Looney Tunes ending board where bosko hops from behind in the WB cartoons. The dog is in the MGM logo.

This is OK but seems to miss some of the character of the original WB Looney Tunes Bosko cartoons.

[VinylLad]

It is amazing seeing all the old WB footage in color. Very well done! I wanted to see this cartoon for years since I am a big fan of the early Bosko, not so much of the later "black sambo" Bosko.

[UzUmAkIAyAmE]

I vaguely recall a cartoon i watched as a kid that once had an episode featuring Bosko as the sad cartoon that was forgotten, does anybody know what that cartoon was?

[WSenator1]

@UzUmAkIAyAmE - You may be thinking about "Tiny Toon Adventures" on TV in the 90s. One of the cartoons featured a mysterious figure who asked Babs (one of the Tiny Toons) to build a theater for the sole purpose of showing old "Honey" cartoons. The mysterious figure turned out to be Bosko. They were drawn differently from their WB days, but I think this is the cartoon you're thinking about.

[WWEChampion16]

Doesn't sound like the same voice Bosko had for Warner Brothers.

[WWEChampion16]

The cat is wearing Mickey Mouse shorts!

[RayPointer]

While Bosko was Harmon-Ising's answer to MICKEY MOUSE in a somewhat human form, there is clearly an attempt to follow the MICKEY MOUSE format in this cartoon. The BOSKO's produced for Leon Schlesinger and Warner's were not of this level. The fact that they were making a MICKEY MOUSE type of cartoon in color seems like an attempt to seriously compete with Disney, especially since many of the MICKEY MOUSE elements are here.

[ESLinstructor1]

@RayPointer

Not to mention, that this was just a year before Mickey would make his color debut.

[deadlyshoesalesman]

This plays like a cheater episode, borrowing bits from all the older Warner Bros. cartoons. But it's not a cheater at all: all the animation is new and in color.

[canonet17]

@deadlyshoesalesman ::

How can you tell its all 'new'( via 1934)? I can see some new frames but most seems to be from the WB series.

[deadlyshoesalesman]

@canonet17::

I think I was wrong. I read somewhere that this really is a cheater and that everything came from the older Warner Bros. shorts. It does add color, of course, but evidently the animation is old.

[431516020205]

color!!! thank you for a fantastic vid buddy!!!!!!