Congo Jazz

Congo Jazz
Production company	Harman-Ising Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 26, 1930 (earliest known date)
Run time	8 minutes
Starring	Carman Maxwell
Producer(s)	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger
Music composition	Frank Marsales
Animation	Carman Maxwell Paul Smith
Director(s)	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising
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Congo Jazz is the second short of the Looney Tunes theatrical series. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 26, 1930. It was produced and directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, the founders of Harman-Ising Productions and creators of the series.

Bosko goes on hunting in the jungle, but ends up playing music with several animals who live there.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bosko	Carman Maxwell

Locations

• Earth
  • Jungle

Objects

• Bosko's shotgun

Production

Filming

The short was copyrighted in 1930 (MCXXX).

Music

The main title theme and score were composed by Frank Marsales.

The score also contains the following musical cues:

• The nursery rhyme "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" is used when Bosko plays with the tiger.
• "I'm Crazy for Cannibal Love," a song used in the 1930 film Bright Lights, is used as part of Bosko's musical number with the animals.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 26, 1930

Behind the scenes

• It is the first cartoon in which Bosko's falsetto voice was used, as opposed to the previous short Sinkin' in the Bathtub, which used a stereotypical African American dialect.
• The short fell in the public domain in 1958 due to Sunset Productions (the short's most recent copyright holder) losing the rights at the time.
• This is the earliest Bosko short and earliest Warner Bros. short to have a restored print; it was released as recently as 2008 for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD set.

Errors

• N/A

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 21, 2008: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 on DVD.