Uncensored Bosko #1

Starring:Uncensored Bosko
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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Image Entertainment is proud to present a cartoon treasure, Warner Brothers' very first--an most musical--cartoon star, Bosko! Created by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, Bosko made his debut in 1929 and retired from Warner Brothers in the summer of '33. These peppy musical shorts were also the first cartoons distributed by the legendary Leon Schlesinger. Animation fans can rejoice, Bosko lives on in the first of two DVD compilations mastered from the finest materials available. Long Live, Bosko! Includes: Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid, Congo Jazz, Big Man from the North, Ups 'N Downs, Yodeling Yokels, The Tree's Knees, Bosko the Doughboy, Bosko's Fox Hunt, Battling Bosko, Sinking in the Bathtub, Hold Anything, Box Car Blues, Ain't Nature Grand, Dumb Patrol.

Uncensored Bosko #1
Average customer rating:

Decent collection of early Warner Bros. cartoons

A FORGOTTEN CHARACTER OF ANIMATION

bosko the great cartoon character

Good For Animation History Study

GREAT DVD!

Uncensored Bosko #1
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ASIN: B00004W1AA
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Description

Image Entertainment is proud to present a cartoon treasure, Warner Brothers' very first--an most musical--cartoon star, Bosko! Created by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, Bosko made his debut in 1929 and retired from Warner Brothers in the summer of '33. These peppy musical shorts were also the first cartoons distributed by the legendary Leon Schlesinger. Animation fans can rejoice, Bosko lives on in the first of two DVD compilations mastered from the finest materials available. Long Live, Bosko! Includes: Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid, Congo Jazz, Big Man from the North, Ups 'N Downs, Yodeling Yokels, The Tree's Knees, Bosko the Doughboy, Bosko's Fox Hunt, Battling Bosko, Sinking in the Bathtub, Hold Anything, Box Car Blues, Ain't Nature Grand, Dumb Patrol.

Customer Reviews:

Decent collection of early Warner Bros. cartoons.......2005-01-12

This compilation of early Looney Tunes featuring Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid is pretty decent. Not neccessarily the best, however. While this collection does contain both "Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid" and "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" (the first two Warner cartoons ever produced), it utilizes the dreaded "window-boxing" technique, a process which mats over at least three fields of the picture.

However, if you can simply ignore that flaw, you'll enjoy this otherwise fine collection of early sound Warner Bros. cartoons. Highlights include: "Congo Jazz" (a jazzy short featuring Bosko as a hunter), "Big Man From the North" (Bosko as a Canadian Mountie), "Ups 'N Downs" (a wacky horse race where Bosko uses a mechanical horse to help him win), and "Bosko the Doughboy" (a graphic depiction of World War I).

A FORGOTTEN CHARACTER OF ANIMATION.......2004-12-16

Before Bugs and Daffy there was Bosko. Not sure if uncensored is completely accurate. While many of the toons do have their racial caricatures, there certainly not as offensive as many other cartoons from the same period. As noted by another reviewer, many of these are musicals since that kind of went along hand-in-hand with early animation.

Still, there's no denying the quality and depth of detail in the animation. There were no short cuts taken back then to do them on the cheap as they would a couple of decades later. I found the quality to be average. I think little if any restoration was done on them for the DVD release which is hardly surprising considering the content. It's not "Gone with the Wind" you know.

Highlights of the set include:

"Bosko's Fox Hunt" - This is another fox hunt which comes complete with singing horses and aristocrats who are too fat to mount their steeds under their own power. A dachschund tracks down its own rear end. Bosko pulls on a tail that he thinks belongs to a fox, but which turns out to be something a little more intimidating. Let it be said that the fox is pretty safe with this group!

"Dumb Patrol" - In this deft parody of the World War I aviation movies that were the rage in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Bosko is an ace flyer who goes into battle against a menacing foe.

"Hold Anything" - Bosko and Honey are joined by a zooful of animals who are having too much fun to get any work done on a construction site. A goat's transformation into a hot-air balloon is a surreal highlight.

"Bosko the Doughboy" - It is World War I. Rockets, bombs and bullets are everywhere. A bird gets shot, leaving a huge hole -- saluting as it falls into a pool of water. An army band is hit, leaving several soldiers in their underwear. Bosko is a toughened soldier in battle who cannot eat beans without being harassed by the enemy's bombs. Bosko is bored with the war until the enemy shoots his photo of Honey -- and that is the last straw! Bosko vows to get even -- but it is not that easy. He goes into action with violent results.

While this is a strong collection I frankly find it a bit pricey at over $20 for 90 minutes.

bosko the great cartoon character.......2004-07-08

Bosko is a great cartoon character, but the Warner Brothers Studio stopped making him in 1934. When Foxy and Roxy did the first Merrie
Melodie bosko had stopped being made, bosko is very funny so i think
this dvd is gonna get alot of money.Bosko the talk ink kid was the first
Bosko cartoon and the first warner bros cartoon.it was made in 1929
but disney did ther first cartoon in 1928 so disney got a head start in
ther cartoon making.So mickey and bosko were not made at the same
time but they both were great. i have sean the first mickey cartoon and the first bosko cartoon.you can see bosko the talk ink kid on the looney tunes goiden colliction on disc 4 and the frist merrie melodie on disc 4.bosko is great so i hope the pepol hwo buy it love it.

Good For Animation History Study.......2004-06-21

The list of cartoons for the second volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection was recently announced, and it will include two black-and-white cartoons. The first volume did not contain any.

While progress is being made in getting rarer and older cartoons restored and released by Warner Brothers, it will still be a long while before they've got Bosko cartoons ready to release (if Warner Bros. releases them at all).

So in the meantime, the two DVDs in the "Uncensored Bosko" series are good for study of early animation, and are actually entertaining. While full of dust and dirt, the video quality is better than most copies of these cartoons.

Also recommended: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Presenting Felix the Cat, Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White

GREAT DVD!.......2003-11-14

This is a must for any LOONEY collectors. It is great to have the old cartoons!

Average customer rating:

Bosko and Honey
NOT AS GOOD AS VOLUME ONE BUT STILL GOOD
This DVD is great, but not as good as the first
Bosko is Just as Good as Mickey Mouse!
Another great collection of Looney Tunes's first star!

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ASIN: B00004W1AB
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Description

Image Entertainment is proud to present a cartoon treasure, Warner Brothers' very first--an most musical--cartoon star, Bosko! Created by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, Bosko made his debut in 1929 and retired from Warner Brothers in the summer of '33. These peppy musical shorts were also the first cartoons distributed by the legendary Leon Schlesinger. Animation fans can rejoice, Bosko lives on in the second of two DVD compilations mastered from the finest materials available. Long Live, Bosko! Includes: Bosko's Holiday, Bosko Shipwrecked, Bosko's Soda Fountain, Bosko at the Zoo, The Booze Hangs High, Big-Hearted Bosko, Bosko and Bruno, Bosko's Party, Bosko's Dog Race, Bosko at the Beach, Bosko's Store, Bosko and the Lumberjack, Bosko and Honey.

Customer Reviews:

Bosko and Honey.......2006-12-25

I would love to see the Bosko the Lumberjack episode.He saves Honey from a brute lumberjack who is after her.

NOT AS GOOD AS VOLUME ONE BUT STILL GOOD.......2004-12-16

Call it 3 1/2 stars. Bosko really is one of those great "lost" characters of animation who would have remained lost if not for the DVD format. While not nearly as offensive as some have made out Bosko to be, you do need to prepare yourselfs for some racial stereotypes common to all forms of film in the 30's.

Quality ranges from average to a bit above average. Some graininess and scratches as one would expect. Highlight toons include:

"Booze hangs High" - Farm boy Bosko is so full of life that he cannot help but sing, dance and laugh with the farm animals, including a drunken pig!

"Bosko at the Beach" Hot dog vendor Bosko is pushing his cart full of dancing weenies along the beach. Various sea creatures join in the fun, including a dancing octopus, which doubles as a carnival ride. Bruno returns a whole tree after running after a stick while playing "fetch." Bosko first comes to Bruno's rescue, and then is bothered by the pesky pooch just as he is in the throes of amour. Later, Bosko saves the day by saving a kitten from the grip of a merciless ocean.

"Bosko and Bruno" - Bosko is a happy-go-lucky wanderer, accompanied by the ever-loyal Bruno. They find themselves in the path of a speeding train.

"Bosko's party" Ever-cheerful Bosko even whistles while he walks in the rain. That's because he is on his way to a surprise party for his Honey. However, she will not be the only one to be surprised, as the scenario winds its way to a happy ending

A nice collection. Not as good as the first though.

This DVD is great, but not as good as the first.......2004-08-11

Bosko is great, and very rare (I don't know where the other reviewer saw Bosko on TV because I NEVER have and I watch Cartoon Network often). The cartoons include:

BOSKO'S HOLIDAY
Very good, but no different than many of the others.

BOSKO SHIPWRECKED
Fantastic! The best short on this collection!

BOSKO'S SODA FOUNTAIN
This cartoon disappoints me. The first half of it is funnier than most of the cartoons on this disc put together, if it just kept going like that it would be right up there with BOSKO SHIPWRECKED, but the second half, with Honey and Wilbur, is more annoying than funny and you really just wish Bosko could grab Wilbur and strangle him, even though over-protective parents would disapprove of this. Nevertheless, the cartoon is worth it for the first half.

BOSKO AT THE ZOO
This is a great one, one of my faves.

THE BOOZE HANGS HIGH
Yuck! This is the WORST one of the DVD, it isn't funny and it's kind of gross.

BIG-HEARTED BOSKO
Bosko is exactly "big-hearted". He has been seen shoving logs down horses to make them stand up straight and placing a mouse on a saw and swirving it around for the fun of it, but on this particular cartoon, Bosko is very big-hearted.

BOSKO AND BRUNO
Not as good as I thought it would be. Bruno is too much like Pluto to be very funny (I have the same feelings about Honey. Honey is like Minnie, I mean. She's not a bit like Pluto).

BOSKO'S PARTY
Nothing special, but basically what you would expect Bosko's birthday to be like.

BOSKO'S DOG RACE
When Bosko says: "Bruno, you're gonna run in that race and you're gonna win it" it kind of hits you off guard. That must be the longest period of time that Bosko was talking, he rarely talks, he sings, but he rarely talks.

BOSKO AT THE BEACH
Boring, average, but boring.

BOSKO'S STORE
Once again, a good cartoon is ruined with Wilbur. I wish Harman and Ising would dump that idea!

BOSKO THE LUMBERJACK
A sleeper. This DVD has more duds than volume 1 did.

BOSKO AND HONEY
I don't know why, but this cartoon was unreleased. It obviously wasn't released because it's in the THAT'S NOT ALL FOLKS section of LOONEY TUNES AND MERRIE MELODIES THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE WARNER BROS. CARTOONS. and it isn't in the regular list. It's a lot like BOSKO'S HOLIDAY.

As you can see, it isn't AS great as Bosko vol. 1, but at the least, worth buying anyway.

Bosko is Just as Good as Mickey Mouse!.......2004-08-08

Mickey Mouse is great, but Bosko is just a good... he is, in a sense, a rip-off, but that was Jack Warner's fault (telling Harman and Ising to make him like Mickey) and as for the drawing, that drawing style was NOT Disney's idea, that's the way most animators were taught to draw back then. Alright, I'm not trying to sound disrespectful toward Walt Disney, I LOVE Disney, but I'm just saying, Bosko is long-forgotten, whereas everyone in the universe knows who Mickey Mouse is. Maybe Mickey IS better, but EVERYONE knows Mickey and NOBODY knows Bosko, well... he can't be THAT much better.
P.S.: Buy the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, no matter how good this Bosko collection is, the Looney Tunes Golden Collection beats this and Mickey.

Another great collection of Looney Tunes's first star!.......2003-01-30

Image Entertainment/Bosko Video has given us another fantastic collection of Warner Brothers's near-forgotten first Looney Tunes star. Bosko was a Mickey Mouse-type character with a girlfriend called Honey and a dog called Bruno. Of course, Harman and Ising (Bosko's creators) tried to imitate Disney in their cartoons and it shows, but they are still enjoyable even to this day, with plenty of good music from composer Frank Marsales.
This collection includes the never-released "Bosko and Honey". It comes with its original WB opening and end titles, so has the cartoon "The Booze Hangs High". The rest of the cartoons on this DVD have the Sunset/Guild Films opening and ending titles.
Bosko Video still uses the same Public Domain prints, with dirt and grain aplenty on the pictures, but they are using slighty better prints, with "The Booze Hangs High" shown in a clean print! Still, the quality of both volumes is so much better than most Public Domain video companies.

With no prospect of WB releasing a full set of pristine Bosko cartoons on DVD, this is still an essential buy for any Looney Tunes fan or for lovers of classic animation.

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