Hugh Harman

Hugh Harman

Birth : 1903-08-31, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, USA

Death : 1982-11-25

History

Harman began work with Walt Disney in 1922 on the Laugh-O-Gram shorts. Harman and his partner, Rudolf Ising then rejoined Disney for the Oswald cartoons, but stayed with producer Charles Mintz after Disney was let go. Harman joined Warner Bros., but left in 1933 for MGM where he and Ising found success with the "Happy Harmonies" before being eclipsed by the animators of the time: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera--whom they hired.

Profile

Hugh Harman

Movies

Tom Thumb in King Arthur's Court
Director
Tom Thumb ends up in the court of King Arthur. Tom saves the day when someone tries to steal King Arthur's gold.
Good Wrinkles
Director
Sunny-sweet the prune shows us how prunes are made from certain kinds of plums, why they're so good for you, and, in live action, some recipes made with prunes. As a subplot, he also explains why California prunes are better than those from the Pacific Northwest and other areas. (Of course, Sunny may be a bit biased, since this film was sponsored by a California organization of prune growers).
The Hot Stoogie
Producer
A man interacts with an animated cat in a test created by Hugh Harman for a live action/animation optical printing process.
The Hot Stoogie
Writer
A man interacts with an animated cat in a test created by Hugh Harman for a live action/animation optical printing process.
The Hot Stoogie
Director
A man interacts with an animated cat in a test created by Hugh Harman for a live action/animation optical printing process.
Down the Drain
Producer
A man tries to take a peaceful bath, only to be wound up constantly by Herman and his cat downstairs.
Down the Drain
Writer
A man tries to take a peaceful bath, only to be wound up constantly by Herman and his cat downstairs.
Down the Drain
Director
A man tries to take a peaceful bath, only to be wound up constantly by Herman and his cat downstairs.
Easy Does It
Director
The cartoon is believed to be a propaganda film by Stokely Van Camp beans against Heinz. There is a strong reference to Heinz in the beginning of the film as, "that British [UK] brand." As well as how unknown, unpopular, and not as strong if a product as Van Camp's.
Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy
Director
Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy
March of Progress
Director
Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Predicts the bright postwar future of streetcar transit, with visionary images of advanced-design railcars.
Winky the Watchman
Director
A dentist explains to a group of schoolchildren about the continuous battle going on inside out months between "good" blobs that are trying to protect our teeth and "bad" blobs that are trying to fill them full of cavities.
Cleaning Mess Gear
Director
The Fifth Commandment for Health: Cleaning Mess Gear. Thou shalt carefully and faithfully wash thy mess gear both before and after meals. For verily if thou becomes negligent in this habit thy guts shall be like knots in a wet rope. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Personal Cleanliness
Director
Commandments for Health examines why personal cleanliness is important for soldiers on the Pacific front. Soldiers should bathe and wash with soap whenever a source of clean water is discovered. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Use Your Head
Director
The Seventh Commandment for Health: Thou shalt not use any spots except chosen ones for the deposition of your excrement. Thou shalt not urinate in thy brother's tent or street else he regard thee as a dog and treat the accordingly. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Taking Medicine
Director
An army film stating the dangers of not taking the malaria medication.
Drinking Water
Director
The Third Commandment for Health: Drinking Water. Thou shalt not drink water from any other source than that designated, else thou become victim to an unhappy fate more painful than Japanese lead. Thou shalt use thy water sparingly and wisely else thy days and thy brothers days shall be numbered. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
The Hungry Wolf
Director
It's the dead of winter, a hungry wolf is out of food, and he's desperate.
The Field Mouse
Director
It's about these children mice on a farm doing work for their mama and grandpop. The mom catches one of her offspring, Herman, sleeping late and wakes him up by spanking him. After he cries to Grandpa, the ground starts shaking. The tractor is on the way!
The Alley Cat
Director
An alley cat spies a high-class female cat on her balcony and falls for her. Her butler sends the family bulldog to deal with the alley cat, but the cat's too clever.
The Little Mole
Producer
A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home. Outdoors, he meets a traveling sales-skunk.
The Little Mole
Director
A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home. Outdoors, he meets a traveling sales-skunk.
Abdul the Bulbul Ameer
Producer
The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.
Abdul the Bulbul Ameer
Director
The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.
The Lonesome Stranger
Director
This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.
Papa Gets the Bird
Director
Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
The Bookworm Turns
Producer
Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.
The Bookworm Turns
Director
Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.
Tom Turkey and His Harmonica Humdingers
Producer
Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.
Tom Turkey and His Harmonica Humdingers
Director
Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.
A Rainy Day with the Bear Family
Director
In this animated short featuring the Bear Family, Papa Bear attempts to fix a leaky roof.
The Mad Maestro
Director
This tale depicts the torments that a world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.
Peace on Earth
Writer
Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.
Peace on Earth
Producer
Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.
Peace on Earth
Director
Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.
The Blue Danube
Director
A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. As the music picks up, we see a water wheel, then a dancing fairy emerges from a whirlpool and begins singing, to the delight of small woodland creatures. The birds awaken sleeping cherubs, who begin their work of harvesting all things blue and adding them to the river. The birds even do their part, harvesting the color blue from the rainbow. Everyone tugs to open a floodgate and unleash the cerulean waters. A swan, festively decorated, leads a gondola of sorts lit by fireflies.
The Bookworm
Producer
Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.
The Bookworm
Director
Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Director
An MGM cartoon adaptation of the classic fairy tale featuring Hugh Harman's Bear Family.
Art Gallery
Director
An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.
Pipe Dreams
Producer
The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of smoking paraphernalia comes to life.
Pipe Dreams
Story
The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of smoking paraphernalia comes to life.
Pipe Dreams
Director
The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of smoking paraphernalia comes to life.
Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad
Director
Bosko imagines he's in Baghdad where giant frogs want to steal the cookies he's supposed to deliver to his grandma.
Little Buck Cheeser
Producer
Little Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese), build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.
Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals
Director
[Bosko] and other frog caricatures of famous African-American musicians like Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson are portrayed as cannibals.
Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates
Director
Bosko going to Grandma's to bring her a bag of cookies. It also has him encountering some frogs meant to caricature some famous African-American musicians of the time who want those cookies as they sing and dance with Bosko in tune for them.
Bosko's Easter Eggs
Director
A Happy Harmonie with Bosko.
Swing Wedding
Director
This film is very reminiscent of "Cabin In The Sky", in that you have a very sexy Ethel Waters about to be married to Stepin Fetchit. Fetchit's friends Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller are trying to get him to the church on time, but Stephin isn't in any hurry to get hitched.
Circus Daze
Producer
Bosko and Honey, at the circus.
Circus Daze
Director
Bosko and Honey, at the circus.
The Pups' Christmas
Producer
On Christmas morning two pups and the household's children are up early. The pups are frightened by a large stuffed dog, a train set, a crying doll, a toy tank, and other toys.
To Spring
Producer
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
To Spring
Story
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
To Spring
Director
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
The Pups' Picnic
Producer
Two little puppies, one black, one brown, go on a picnic outing with their human family. The pups wind up unwitting participants in a fox hunt.
The Old House
Director
A Bosko color cartoon in a haunted house.
The Old Mill Pond
Director
The fish and frogs gather at the old mill pond to hear a jazz concert. Performers include caricatures of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and tap dancer Bill Robinson ("Bojangles").
The Early Bird and the Worm
Producer
A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.
Bottles
Producer
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
Bottles
Director
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
Run, Sheep, Run!
Director
A Happy Harmonies cartoon with Bosko: Bosko and his dog Bruno are guarding some sheep. Bosko is sleeping and not watching his flock carefully. The youngest and most mischievous in the herd is a black sheep who runs into the woods and plays a trick on the others, pretending that he has been kidnapped. Unfortunately, the little black sheep cries wolf and causes Bosko all kinds of trouble. When the trick is discovered, he is taught a lesson by the shepherd's dog, who dresses as a black bear. Bosko awakens and gives chase with his shotgun, thinking that it's a real bear. Once discovered and out of shells, they all have a good laugh until another bear comes by and takes after them with the attendant chase scenes. The bear is unmasked as being the five little lambs wearing a bear suit.
Alias St. Nick
Producer
Mrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood when a cat tries to break in. The cat overhears them arguing about the existence of Santa, so he dresses up accordingly.
The Old Plantation
Director
'Black beauty' must win a race against other toys in order to save the Old Plantation, a doll house.
Poor Little Me
Producer
Bunnies, turtles, and other small woodland animals play. A child skunk remains apart, heartbroken that he has no friends.
Poor Little Me
Writer
Bunnies, turtles, and other small woodland animals play. A child skunk remains apart, heartbroken that he has no friends.
Poor Little Me
Director
Bunnies, turtles, and other small woodland animals play. A child skunk remains apart, heartbroken that he has no friends.
The Chinese Nightingale
Producer
A Chinese emperor is gladdened by the song of the nightingale and is moved to play his own song. One day the Japanese send a music box with a mechanical bird; the nightingale feels rejected and leaves. Soon the clockwork breaks down, and the emperor dispatches his crow to go look for the songbird. The emperor, meanwhile, grows sicker with the passing months.
Good Little Monkeys
Director
The Devil comes out of Dante's Inferno, hoping to get the See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil monkeys to his side, but a bunch of literary characters come to the rescue of the monkeys.
The Lost Chick
Producer
A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.
The Lost Chick
Director
A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.
When the Cat's Away
Producer
The mice will loot the kitchen. The roaches also get into the act. A rat menaces the lead mouse couple, until the cat returns.
Hey, Hey Fever
Producer
This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life.
Hey, Hey Fever
Director
This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life.
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Producer
Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Director
Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.
Mischievous Mice
Director
This short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey's kitchen and ruining everything in her house. She tires valiantly to run them off but they outsmart her. She makes a phone call and Cubby appears at her door. The mice make quick work of him too. Only a fat cat is able to temporarily stop them but they soon turn on him too. Cubby comes to the aide of the cat but the mice outsmart the both of them. In the end the mice have run off the cat, Honey is gone, and Cubby sits dazed on the floor as the mice cheer their victory.
Tale of the Vienna Woods
Producer
The animated adventure of a faun and a satyr who is only animate during daylight.
The Discontented Canary
Producer
A canary is frustrated by being caged. One day the kind old lady who owns him opens a nearby window, and also leaves the door to the cage open. Freedom! But it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Bosko's Mechanical Man
Director
Bosko creates a robot. The only problem is that his creation goes mad wreaking havoc.
Bosko the Musketeer
Director
Bosko and Bruno go to Honey's house where she shows him a picture of the Three Musketeers. Bosko tells her a story of himself as a Musketeer and Honey as a dancing girl. He fights a villain with swords over Honey and wins. The real Honey finds the story hard to believe.
We're in the Money
Producer
After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.
Bosko's Picture Show
Director
Bosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
Bosko's Picture Show
Producer
Bosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
Cubby's World Flight
Director
A Van Beuren "Aesop Fable" cartoon featuring Cubby Bear.
The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Producer
Utensils and food dance, sing, and play in the kitchen, until a lump of dough turns into a monster and they all unite to stop it.
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
Producer
An animated singing and dancing revue of babies (representing a variety of stereotypes) who are being prepared for delivery by stork.
Beau Bosko
Director
Bosko is a soldier in the Foreign Legion out to capture the desert scourge, Ali Oop.
Bosko the Sheep-Herder
Director
For the first three minutes or so of this one, Bosko doesn't really have much to do and is only seen briefly playing a musical instrument. Instead, the bulk of the time is spent following a lamb and its interactions with a couple of insects.
I Like Mountain Music
Producer
After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform. Caricature celebrity depictions include George Arliss, Eddie Cantor, Sonja Henie, Benito Mussolini, Ignacy Paderewski, Edward G. Robinson, Will Rogers, and Ed Wynn. A robbery sequence features bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the case. King Kong also makes an appearance. A Merrie Melody cartoon.
Bosko's Knight-Mare
Director
Bosko, after reading a book about medieval knighthood, falls asleep and has a nightmare where Honey, his girlfriend, in the role of a princess, gets captured. Bosko finds the villain, and wakes up in the midst of fighting him and destroys his knight replica.
Wake Up the Gypsy in Me
Producer
A camp of Russian gypsies, dancing and playing music. After an opening dance, a quartet of beer-drinkers gargles the Volga Boatman song, then another group hauling on a rope sings it (we finally see that the other end of the rope is anchored by a very small dog). A trench-coated bomber sneaks into the palace, where we see Rice-Puddin', the mad monk, cheating at a jigsaw puzzle. He spies the activity in the gypsy camp and orders a henchman to fetch the gypsy girl. The villagers revolt as a result, sending The Mad Monk scrambling on his horse; they stuff a bomb into his pants just as he turns his horse into a helicopter, and it explodes.
Bosko in Person
Producer
Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo and Jimmy Durante.
Bosko in Person
Director
Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo and Jimmy Durante.
The Organ Grinder
Producer
In this Merrie Melodies animated short, an organ grinder and his monkey make their way down a city street.
Bosko the Speed King
Director
Bosko enters a road race.
Young and Healthy
Producer
Warner Bros. animated short featuring the song 'Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)'
One Step Ahead of My Shadow
Producer
Several Chinese residents play music. A dragon frees himself from a cage and goes after them, but fireworks are shoved down the dragon's throat. This causes him to explode and turn into a walking dragon skeleton.
Bosko in Dutch
Producer
Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.
Bosko in Dutch
Director
Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
Director
Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
Producer
Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
Bosko's Woodland Daze
Producer
While romping through the forest, Bosko falls asleep and dreams of giants and gnomes. (bosko.toonzone.net)
Bosko's Woodland Daze
Director
While romping through the forest, Bosko falls asleep and dreams of giants and gnomes. (bosko.toonzone.net)
Bosko's Dizzy Date
Producer
Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
Bosko's Dizzy Date
Director
Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
A Great Big Bunch of You
Producer
A mannequin in the city dump improvises a piano from the junk to play and sing the title song The various animals and pieces of junk all join in.
Bosko the Drawback
Producer
Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.
Bosko the Drawback
Director
Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.
I Wish I Had Wings
Producer
An expectant father rooster fetches doctor stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one little black one, who gets crowded out of the food. After singing the title song, he manages to improvise a pair of wings and fly over the chicken coop, but regrets it when he is chased by a mean scarecrow.
Ride Him, Bosko
Second Cartoonist (uncredited)
Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
Ride Him, Bosko
Producer
Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
Ride Him, Bosko
Director
Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
Bosko the Lumberjack
Producer
Bosko and his friends are cutting down trees in a forest. He battles a burly woodsman named Pierre who has gone off and kidnapped his beloved Honey.
Bosko the Lumberjack
Director
Bosko and his friends are cutting down trees in a forest. He battles a burly woodsman named Pierre who has gone off and kidnapped his beloved Honey.
Bosko's Store
Producer
Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
Bosko's Store
Director
Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
I Love a Parade
Producer
A circus parade, to the title tune. Next, a series of sideshow acts: the wild boy, the rubber man, siamese twin pigs, a tattooed man, a hula-dancing hippo, an Indian snake (or goat) charmer. Into the ring, we have a hippo riding a horse (much to the horse's dismay), a high-wire act (again, to the title song), and finally a lion tamer.
Bosko at the Beach
Producer
Bosko, Honey, and Bruno spend a day at the beach.
Bosko at the Beach
Director
Bosko, Honey, and Bruno spend a day at the beach.
The Queen Was in the Parlor
Producer
The king returns to his castle, and asks where the queen is; she's in the parlor, and won't be seen, according to the title song. He goes to his throne and summons his jester, Goopy Geer. A black knight arrives and threatens one of the young ladies in court; Goopy fights him off, first with an ax, then in armor from kitchen utensils, then butting him with a mounted animal head, which makes the knight's armor fall apart. He pulls it together again and runs away.
Bosko's Dog Race
Producer
Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
Bosko's Dog Race
Director
Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
Moonlight for Two
Producer
Two courting hillbilly dogs go to the big barn dance.
It's Got Me Again!
Producer
Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.
Bosko and Bruno
Producer
Bosko, carrying his hobo stick, travels along the railroad tracks with his dog, Bruno. Unfortunately, they're both on the tracks as they cross a bridge and realize that a train is coming perilously near. They manage to escape via a handcar, which was waiting for them on the tracks. however, once over the bridge, Bruno gets his foot caught near the switch. Bruno escapes, but not before allowing his poor master to think he's dead. Bosko is angry at his pet, but outrage turns to fear when the sound of another train gets them both panicking again. Luckily, the "train whistle" is only the mooing of a cow. The pair's adventures continue as they try to steal a chicken for her eggs. Finally, they end up on a runaway boxcar and have a second encounter with the obnoxious cow.
Bosko and Bruno
Director
Bosko, carrying his hobo stick, travels along the railroad tracks with his dog, Bruno. Unfortunately, they're both on the tracks as they cross a bridge and realize that a train is coming perilously near. They manage to escape via a handcar, which was waiting for them on the tracks. however, once over the bridge, Bruno gets his foot caught near the switch. Bruno escapes, but not before allowing his poor master to think he's dead. Bosko is angry at his pet, but outrage turns to fear when the sound of another train gets them both panicking again. Luckily, the "train whistle" is only the mooing of a cow. The pair's adventures continue as they try to steal a chicken for her eggs. Finally, they end up on a runaway boxcar and have a second encounter with the obnoxious cow.
Goopy Geer
Producer
At a nightclub, the crowd demands Goopy Geer, and the lanky dog doesn't disappoint them. He gives a zany performance on the piano, but the employees and the customers are just as wacky. A gorilla waiter dances while serving. Three identical cats display a peculiar way of eating. A chicken has a nauseating way of making chicken soup. The nightclub singer tells corny jokes. Even the hat racks come to life and dance. A horse imbibing a too-strong drink provides the show-stopper.
Goopy Geer
Director
At a nightclub, the crowd demands Goopy Geer, and the lanky dog doesn't disappoint them. He gives a zany performance on the piano, but the employees and the customers are just as wacky. A gorilla waiter dances while serving. Three identical cats display a peculiar way of eating. A chicken has a nauseating way of making chicken soup. The nightclub singer tells corny jokes. Even the hat racks come to life and dance. A horse imbibing a too-strong drink provides the show-stopper.
Bosko's Party
Producer
Bosko whistles "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo" as he walks down the sidewalk in the pouring rain. His umbrella provides a good sailboat when he wants to cross a flooded street. Meanwhile, Honey is getting dressed and made up. She's about to remove her nightgown when she realizes that we in the audience are watching her. She goes behind a modesty screen, but the mirror reveals all to us. Bosko arrives at Honey's place and one of her friends opens the door. Little does she know that several of her friends are downstairs waiting to surprise her. This is Honey's birthday. Honey's little yapping dog causes trouble before and during the party. Worse trouble comes from her pupil--a little kitten who hides underneath a flowerpot and can't get out from under it. When he finally does, he causes a minor catastrophe.
Bosko's Party
Director
Bosko whistles "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo" as he walks down the sidewalk in the pouring rain. His umbrella provides a good sailboat when he wants to cross a flooded street. Meanwhile, Honey is getting dressed and made up. She's about to remove her nightgown when she realizes that we in the audience are watching her. She goes behind a modesty screen, but the mirror reveals all to us. Bosko arrives at Honey's place and one of her friends opens the door. Little does she know that several of her friends are downstairs waiting to surprise her. This is Honey's birthday. Honey's little yapping dog causes trouble before and during the party. Worse trouble comes from her pupil--a little kitten who hides underneath a flowerpot and can't get out from under it. When he finally does, he causes a minor catastrophe.
Big-Hearted Bosko
Producer
While ice-skating on a frozen pond, Bosko and his dog discover a baby abandoned in the snow.
Battling Bosko
Producer
Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog.
Battling Bosko
Director
Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog.
Pagan Moon
Producer
On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
Bosko at the Zoo
Producer
Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger.
Bosko at the Zoo
Director
Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger.
Red-Headed Baby
Producer
The old toymaker goes to sleep, and his toys immediately come to life and sing "Red-Headed Baby." A red-haired baby doll begins the song. She's soon joined by her sweetheart, a toy soldier named Napoleon. A spider briefly spoils the fun when he descends upon the toys and grabs the doll. It's up to Napoleon to save her.
Bosko's Fox Hunt
Producer
Bosko joins a wacky fox hunt. But if the hunt worries anyone, it isn't the fox.
Bosko's Fox Hunt
Director
Bosko joins a wacky fox hunt. But if the hunt worries anyone, it isn't the fox.
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Producer
Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil.
You Don't Know What You're Doin'!
Producer
Piggy picks up his girlfriend and takes her to a theater where a hot jazz orchestra is playing.
Bosko the Doughboy
Producer
Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War.
Bosko the Doughboy
Director
Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War.
One More Time
Producer
Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.
Bosko Shipwrecked!
Producer
Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals.
Bosko Shipwrecked!
Director
Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals.
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
Producer
The wacky, jolly, hair-raising adventures of singing streetcar conductor Foxy.
Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
Producer
In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.
The Tree's Knees
Producer
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
The Tree's Knees
Director
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
Yodeling Yokels
Producer
Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe.
Yodeling Yokels
Director
Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe.
Bosko's Holiday
Producer
Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.
Bosko's Holiday
Director
Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.
Dumb Patrol
Producer
During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.
Dumb Patrol
Director
During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.
Ups 'n Downs
Producer
Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse.
Ups 'n Downs
Director
Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse.
Ain't Nature Grand!
Producer
Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.
Ain't Nature Grand!
Director
Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.
Big Man from the North
Director
Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.
Big Man from the North
Producer
Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.
Box Car Blues
Producer
Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar.
Box Car Blues
Director
Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar.
The Booze Hangs High
Producer
Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.
The Booze Hangs High
Director
Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.
Hold Anything
Producer
Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
Hold Anything
Director
Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
Congo Jazz
Producer
Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.
Congo Jazz
Director
Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Animation
The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Producer
The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Director
The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
Producer
Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
Director
Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.
The Suicide Sheik
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Plane Crazy
Animation
Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.
Sick Cylinders
Director
Oswald wants to take his girl Kitty for a ride, but constant mishaps such as a pesky pooch and falling boulders prevent the time from being the least bit enjoyable. In the end, Oswald loses his girl to another character and in anger, kicks his car in the rear repeatedly.
South Pole Flight
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Rocks and Socks
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Panicky Pancakes
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Poor Papa
Animation
Oswald gets a visit from the stork ... again and again and again. He has to resort to a variety of strategies to stop the continual flow of babies.
Tall Timber
Animation
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short, Walt Disney's earlier character, before going on to create Mickey Mouse. Here he is canoeing in the wilderness.
The Fox Chase
Animation
Oswald is with his mates in a fox hunt, but he finds his horse is stubborn and won't let him ride at first. Meanwhile, the sly fox outwits the dogs and riders in pursuit at every turn.
Ozzie of the Mounted
Animation
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, goes in pursuit of Peg-Leg Pete.
Ride 'Em Plow Boy
Animation
In a foreshadowing of what was to become a staple of the Mickey shorts, Oswald manages his farm along to a musical beat.
Sagebrush Sadie
Animation
Oswald plays a cowboy who must rescue Sadie from a runaway stagecoach and Pegleg Pete.
Bright Lights
Animation
Oswald would like to see Mlle. Zulu the Shimmy Queen but he's short on cash. Seeing the more stately gentlemen being admitted without tickets, he tries to fool the bouncer into thinking he's important by puffing up his chest and striding in. It doesn't work, and he's forced to try a second plan, sneaking in under another patron's shadow. He gets caught and spends his time being chased by the bouncer throughout the theater.
The Ol' Swimmin' Hole
Animation
A pastoral outing as Oswald and his friends take in the delights on a swimming hole.
Neck 'n' Neck
Animation
Oswald takes Miss Rabbit out for a ride in his jalopy and soon finds himself in a race with a chasing police car.
Harem Scarem
Animation
A lost animated short centered on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's disadventures in the Moroccan desert. Some drawings survived and were put together in an animated clip.
Empty Socks
Animation
The Christmas celebration of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
The Ocean Hop
Animation
Oswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund lifted into the air by balloons. Meanwhile, his peg-legged rival tries to cheat his way to victory.
All Wet
Animation
Oswald takes a job as a lifeguard to keep an eye on Miss Rabbit, who in turn stages a boating accident hoping Oswald will come to save her.
Great Guns
Animation
Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
The Mechanical Cow
Animation
Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get going, sailing around the barnyard offering milk to denizens of the farm. When kidnappers arrive and takes Oswald's girlfriend away, he and the cow set off to rescue her.
Oh Teacher
Animation
Oswald's sweetheart is stolen by a schoolyard bully, so he has to fight him during recess to win her back.
Trolley Troubles
Animation
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit runs a trolley but finds the job is more trouble than its worth in his debut short.
Alice in the Big League
Animation
Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
Alice the Beach Nut
Animation
Alice visits the beach where Julius is working as a lifeguard. Suddenly an emergency arises and Julius must rescue a drowning swimmer.
Alice's Medicine Show
Animation
Alice and Julius are in a traveling medicine show, and part of their job is to sell patent medicine to audiences.
Alice in the Klondike
Animation
Julius and Alice go prospecting for gold in the Klondike and strike it rich. However, they have to protect their claim against Pete, who wants to take it for himself.
Alice's Picnic
Animation
Alice and her friends decide to go to the park and have a picnic. Everything is going well until a gang of rats steals their food. Alice and her friends decide to go after the rats and get their food back.
Alice's Three Bad Eggs
Animation
Alice and Julius have to hold their western fort against The Three Bad Eggs and a band of marauding Indians.
Alice's Knaughty Knight
Animation
Pete, dressed in a suit of armor, steals away the female that Julius is after. So Julius devises his own suit of armor, made mostly out of junk, to win her back.
Alice's Auto Race
Animation
Alice, Julius and Peter enter a road race. Pete, of course, tries to cheat by pulling such stunts as switching road signs, but Julius is on to Pete's tricks.
Alice in the Alps
Animation
Alice and Julius go ice-skating in the Swiss Alps, and later go on a mountain-climbing expedition with Pete.
Alice the Collegiate
Animation
Alice gets a job teaching football at a local college, where the star quarterback is none other than Julius.
Alice at the Rodeo
Animation
Julius wins a bronc-riding contest at the rodeo. However, Pete steals his prize money, so Julius must go after him to get it back.
Alice at the Carnival
Animation
Alice and Julius visit a carnival where they ride the rides and take in the sideshow.
Alice Foils the Pirates
Animation
Julius discovers that Alice has been captured by Pete and held prisoner on his pirate ship. He sets out to rescue Alice.
Alice the Golf Bug
Animation
Alice, Julius and Pete compete in a golf tournament.
Alice the Lumberjack
Animation
Pete schemes to kidnap Alice while she and Julius are working as lumberjacks along the river.
Alice's Brown Derby
Animation
Another horse race with Julius riding a mechanical horse and Pete unsuccessfully trying to cheat to win.
Alice's Spanish Guitar
Animation
Putrid Pete becomes infatuated with Alice's guitar playing, so he kidnaps her and imprisons her in his castle.
Alice Cuts the Ice
Animation
Julius tries to elope with Alice's maid. Alice gets ahold of a policeman and they give pursuit.
Alice the Fire Fighter
Animation
When the local hotel is found to be on fire, the firemen (all of them Julius the cat lookalikes), led by Fire Chief Alice, are called in. The residents are busy escaping the blaze while the cats get to work helping them out of the building and putting out the flames. When a feline tenant gets caught on the top floor, one of the firemen bravely saves her by riding a smoke cloud up to reach her, but when they get back to the ground, he finds her expiring from smoke inhalation. He saves the day by rolling the smoke out of her with a rolling pin, and when she revives the two fall instantly in love.
Alice Charms the Fish
Animation
Alice and Julius go fishing where Alice charms the fish ashore with a tune from her flute.
Alice Plays Cupid
Animation
Julius is a lifeguard at the beach, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful female cat. Alice decides to help out by driving the car when the two decide to elope.
Alice's Wonderland
Himself
Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.
Alice's Wonderland
Animation
Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.
Bosko and Honey
Producer
An unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date. Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
Bosko and Honey
Director
An unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date. Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.