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Box Car Blues (1930)

1930 · Animation · 7 min · dir. Hugh Harman

  • Comedy
  • Animation

Synopsis

Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a boxcar; they happily play "Cryin' for the Carolines" with Bosko doing vocals and the pig on the banjo. Meanwhile, the anthropomorphic engine is having trouble on the rails; it has to go up steep hills and pass over missing tracks. It even sprouts hands and arms to pull itself up a hill, but accidentally pulls down the hill's "pants," revealing polka-dotted underpants. In this struggle, the train loses its boxcar. Now Bosko is in distress as the…

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Details

Director
Hugh Harman
Composer
Frank Marsales
Studio
Harman-Ising Productions, The Vitaphone Corporation, Leon Schlesinger Productions
Released
1930-12-15
Running time
7 minutes

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