Bosko's Parlor Pranks (1934)
- Directed by
- Hugh Harman
- Genre
- comedy, animation
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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.
How it feels
This 1934 cartoon features Bosko in a series of silly, musical pranks. It was the first Bosko short made in color and produced at MGM.
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What happens
Bosko's Parlor Pranks is a 1934 Happy Harmonies cartoon produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring their character Bosko. It is the first Bosko cartoon produced in color (two-strip Technicolor), and the first made at MGM following the Harman-Ising studio ending its deal to produce Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros. Pictures and Leon Schlesinger. Warner Bros. would later own Happy Harmonies and the MGM cartoon studio through its Turner Entertainment Co. banner. In this cartoon, Bosko appears with the same character design as in his Warner Bros. cartoons. After Hey-Hey Fever, Bosko's second MGM cartoon, he was redesigned into a more clear caricature of an African-American boy. Most of the animation in this cartoon is reused from the Looney Tunes shorts in which Bosko appeared. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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