Hugh Harman

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). (imdb)

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.

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. (imdb)

A cartoonist draws Bosko, who promptly comes to life.

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 music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun

Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly. (imdb)

Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals. (imdb)

Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger. (imdb)

While ice-skating on a frozen pond, Bosko and his dog discover a baby abandoned in the snow. (imdb)

Bosko and friends give Honey a surprise birthday party. (imdb)

Bosko and Bruno escape from a speeding train via a handcar; make a failed attempt to steal a chicken; and end up on a runaway boxcar. (imdb)

Honey tries to teach the violin to an unwilling kitten. Later, she and Bosko go off on a bicycle ride. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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! (imdb comments)

Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo and Jimmy Durante. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar. (imdb)

Bosko is a Mountie; his sergeant demands he get his man. (imdb)

Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse. (imdb)

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle. (imdb)

Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe. (imdb)

Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music. (imdb)

Bosko joins a wacky fox hunt. But if the hunt worries anyone, it isn't the fox. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Goopy, a dog of no particular personality, but a crackerjack piano player, plays several songs on the stage of a nightclub. We spend a fair amount of time watching the patrons and staff of the nightclub. (imdb)

Bosco and Bruno take part in dog race.

Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business. (bosko.toonzone.net)

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. (bcdb.com)

Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football. (imdb)

Bosko's girlfriend Honey tries to teach Wilber to play the violin. Bosko does the old soft shoe. Of course, Bruno eventually gets into the act, too. This musical tale has plenty of action, involving chickens, cows, and even a pesky stray bolt of lightning. (www.bcdb.com)

Bosko enters a road race.

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. (imdb)

Swing Wedding is a 1937 MGM Happy Harmonies short directed by Hugh Harman. A 'sequel' to the 1936 short The Old Mill Pond, the cartoon portrays a wedding celebrated by a group of frogs in a swamp. The frogs are designed as caricatures of various African Americans celebrities of the 1930s, such as Ethel Waters, Stepin Fetchit, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Mills Brothers. (Wikipedia)

The delightfully animated adventure of a faun and a satyr who is only animate during daylight. (imdb)

If you've seen many Bosko shorts,you'll recognize quite a bit that's familiar here in this one, for all that it's set in Holland. With a few obvious changes (the buildings-even down to an out-house!) are windmills and the shoes are either ice skates or clogs, this is basically Bosko gone Dutch. He and Honey still dance (in clogs) and they still sing. (imdb comments)

Bosko and Honey, at the circus.

This cartoon focuses on Snafu's brother, Tarfu. It shows the basics of the Navy. The conditions and uniforms of it too. (imdb comments)

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. (imdb comments)

Bosko is a soldier in the Foreign Legion out to capture the desert scourge, Ali Oop. (imdb)

Bosko creates a robot. The only problem is that his creation goes mad wreaking havoc. (imdb)

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. (Big Cartoon Database)

A Bosko color cartoon in a haunted house.

A Van Beuren "Aesop Fable" cartoon featuring Cubby Bear.

This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life. (imdb)

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. (bcdb.com)

A Happy Harmonies cartoon with Bosko.

Mrs. Bear persuades her reluctant husband to fix the leaky roof. But the job proves larger than it first appeared, and the thunderstorm hits while he's on the roof, making it highly perilous as well, between the attacking lighting, the slippery roof, and the high winds.

Pop's grocery store is about to be shut down. The banker promises not to foreclose if Pop's daughter will marry him. The grocery store clerk, who is in love with Pop's daughter, is visited by a little creature named Easy - who whisks the clerk back in time via a spaceship in order to show him the glories of Stokely Van Camp canned foods. Returning to the store, the clerk promptly stocks the shelves with Stokely products. The customers return and the store is saved.

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.

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. (imdb)

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.

An ill-mannered, selfish and untidy little boy is turned into a pig until his "good self" conquers his "bad self."

First and little-known film version of the classic story, an animated short by Coronet Films.

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.

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.

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.

The Forth Commandment for Health: Native Food. Though shalt eat only the rations inspected, found fit and provided for they use. For verily many native foods contain poisons more treacherous than a Japanese warlord. Private McGillicuddy discovers the dangers of eating native food while in the navy.

A lowly shoeshine boy has his attention captivated by a pretty girl and tries to follow her back to her place. After his attempt to meet with her fails due to an angry superintendent in her apartment building, he receives some help from the genie of the spittoon who provides an effective way to get to her balcony. Once they depart the angry man gives chase, aided by two mice and a bathtub, attacking with a water jet and a cannon and no concern for the girl's safety. (imdb)

A man tries to take a peaceful bath, only to be wound up constantly by Herman and his cat downstairs.

Commandments for Health examines why personal cleanliness is important for soldiers on the Pacific front. Soldiers should bathe and wash their close with soap whenever a source of clean water is discovered. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.

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.