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Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)

1929 · Animation · 5 min · dir. Hugh Harman

  • Animation
  • Comedy

Synopsis

A cartoonist named Rudolf Ising sits at his drawing board, smoking a cigarette and crumpling up his latest drawing. He tries a new drawing, and this time he produces Bosko, a caricatured Negro boy with a simple, rounded design. Once finished, Bosko becomes animate on the paper. "Well, here I is," he declares to the mildly surprised cartoonist. "And I shore feel good!" Bosko proceeds to dance, play the piano--and sing. But his singing is so bad that the cartoonist sucks Bosko back into his ink…

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Details

Director
Hugh Harman
Writer
Friz Freleng
Studio
Harman-Ising Productions
Released
1929-05-01
Running time
5 minutes

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