Bosko's Picture Show
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| Bosko's Picture Show | |
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| Production company | Harman-Ising Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | August 26, 1933 |
| Run time | 6 minutes |
| Starring | Johnny Murphy Rochelle Hudson |
| Producer(s) | Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Frank Marsales |
| Animation | Isadore Freling Max Maxwell Bob Clampett |
| Director(s) | Hugh Harman Isadore Freling |
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Bosko's Picture Show is the thirty eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on August 26, 1933. It was produced and directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, the founders of Harman-Ising Productions and creators of the series, with Leon Schlesinger as producer. It was the last cartoon Harman and Ising would create for Warner Bros. before moving to work at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bosko: The dirty fox!
Characters
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Locations
Objects
Production
Music
The music was composed by Frank Marsales.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: August 26, 1933 in theaters
Behind the scenes
- When the villain Dirty Dalton first appears onscreen, Bosko points at him to the audience shouts what allegedly sounds like "The dirty fuck." Due to the phrase not being clearly heard, it has been argued that a soundtrack flaw had rendered a more innocent phrase, such as "dirty fox" or "dirty mug", to that is more "obscene."[1]
- Animator Mark Kausler studied the lip movements of Bosko and insisted that the word "mug" was the intended word.[2] Kausler initially believed that the sound flaw only occurred in the 16 mm film version, and when he re-recorded the sound on a 35 mm, nitrate film to correct this, it led to no better results, since listeners had still heard the disputed word as "fuck". Animation historian Jerry Beck also had several people watch the film, and they all concluded that Bosko had indeed called Dirty Dalton a "dirty fuck".[2]
- According to the cartoon's subtitles in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD, Bosko's phrase was transcribed as "The dirty fox!," despite the curse word being clearly heard.
Errors
Legacy
- Apart from newsreels, the short is argued to have been the first depiction of Hitler in American film.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- October 21, 2008: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 on DVD.
References
- ↑ "The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Guide: B". The Internet Animation Base. Retrieved Febuary 14, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cohen, Karl F. (2004), "Censorship of Theatrical Animation", Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America (p. 15). McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0786420322
