Underplayed Gems

Bosko's Picture Show (1933)

Bosko's Picture Show poster
Directed by
Hugh Harman
Genre
animation, comedy, adventure, music
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Bosko stars in a cartoon short where he shows a film in a theater. The short is known for a moment where he seems to say a bad word.

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What happens

Bosko's Picture Show is a 1933 American animated comedy short film directed by Hugh Harman and Isadore Freleng. It is the 38th and final film in the Looney Tunes series starring Bosko and produced by Harman-Ising Productions. It is the last film in the series to be animated by Freleng, who was promoted to director upon returning, and Maxwell, who stopped animating and become production manager at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was released on August 22, 1933. The short is notorious for a line where Bosko appears to say the word "fuck", sparking debate on whether it was deliberate or the result of a technical error occluding a more innocuous term. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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