Bosko's Picture Show (1933)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Release Date:

26 August 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Movie Theater | Bosko | Organ | England | Bathing Beauty

Cast

Rochelle Hudson	...	Honey (voice) (uncredited)
Carman Maxwell	...	Bosko (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

6 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Vitaphone)

Company:

Leon Schlesinger Studios

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: A line in the sing-a-long card for "We're In The Money" is mistakenly printed as "Let's spend it, lend it...", even though the audience sings the correct line "Let's lend it, spend it...".

Quotes:

[first lines]
Bosko: Howdy, howdy, howdy, folks! Let's sing!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

We're in the Money

the next picture show

In what appears to be the first instance of Warner Bros. cartoons spoofing the cinema, Bosko plays the piano at the debut of Honey's movie. The Out-of-Tone News, and then the Haurel and Lardy movie, inadvertently predict cartoons like "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter", "The Film Fan" and "Bacall to Arms". Bosko's trick at the climax of Honey's movie resembles the scenes in later cartoons where a silhouette appears - presumably an audience member - and interacts with the characters.

Anyway, the Termite Terrace crowd (is it too early to call them that?) was just getting started, so we can forgive them if the material doesn't recall wabbit hunts or things like that. Still worth seeing.