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1929 promotional film made by Hugh Harman & Rudolph Ising, who had recently left Disney. The film won them a contract to found the Warner Brothers animation studio, where they created the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series.
Shorts
1933 - Bosko in Person - Dir. Hugh Harman/Friz Freleng
1939 - Robin Hood Makes Good - Dir. Chuck Jones
1950 - Mutiny on the Bunny with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam - Dir. Friz Freleng
1956 - Weasel Stop with Foghorn Leghorn - Dir. Robert McKimson
1961 - Hoppy Daze with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper- Dir. Robert McKimson
TV/DTV
1991 - Tiny Toon Adventures - "Viewer Mail Day" ("Pluck 'o the Irish" / "Out of Odor" / "Buttering Up the Buttfields")
1994 - Animaniacs Season 1: "Ups and Downs" / "The Brave Little Trailer"/ "Yes, Always"
1996 - Pinky and the Brain Season 1 - "Fly"
2003 - "Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure"
2006 - Loonatics Unleashed Season 1 - "Time After Time"
Never met him, but I did see him at a Toon social in the 1940s. He wasn't getting as much work anymore. Everyone wanted to see how he was doing. He spoke to the boys mostly. Bugs, Felix, Bimbo, his main friends. That's just how it was in those meetups back then. There was a party for him in 1999, but I was out of the circuit by then. I'm sure he's fully retired now.
Wile E.: Egad! He was so saturated with ink that his entire body structure was polarized!
Bosko: You mean I'm invisible?
Wile E.: No, no, no, not in any sense of the word. But essentially, yes, entirely.
[...] We made the first one, it was the first Looney Tune called "Sinkin' in the Bathtub", and that started it. We were kinda finding our way, cause no one really know what the story was, really. Just having the character do something. The director said "do about twenty feet here, and see if he meets a goat, or something, on the road". You add gags to it [...] The only way we got synchronizing was we had to do it to rhythm. And the little girl [Honey] would say "Hello, Bosko", so we just do it to a beat so we can synch. There was no other way to synch, we couldn't read tracks then, we didn't know anything about that.
Friz Freleng on production of the first WB cartoon, 1930s’ Sinkin’ in the Bathtub
Cartoon: The Booze Hangs High, 1930 featuring Bosko
The Booze Hangs High, released in December 1930, is the fourth title in the Looney Tunes series.
The short features Bosko, Warner Bros.’ first cartoon character.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/The_Booze_Hangs_High_190611_LTGC.webm
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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