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

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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