Hold Anything

Hold Anything 1930

5.30

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.

1930

One More Time

One More Time 1931

5.60

Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.

1931

The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives

The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives 1933

4.91

Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild. He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.

1933

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid 1929

5.35

Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.

1929

Congo Jazz

Congo Jazz 1930

5.10

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

1930

Goopy Geer

Goopy Geer 1932

5.50

At a nightclub, the crowd demands Goopy Geer, and the lanky dog doesn't disappoint them. He gives a zany performance on the piano, but the employees and the customers are just as wacky. A gorilla waiter dances while serving. Three identical cats display a peculiar way of eating. A chicken has a nauseating way of making chicken soup. The nightclub singer tells corny jokes. Even the hat racks come to life and dance. A horse imbibing a too-strong drink provides the show-stopper.

1932

The Booze Hangs High

The Booze Hangs High 1930

5.00

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.

1930

Big Man from the North

Big Man from the North 1931

4.90

Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.

1931

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! 1931

5.39

A streetcar conductor has adventures with a would-be passenger hippo, a cow blocking the tracks, and a runaway train while he, his passengers, and some hobos sing the title song.

1931

Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

Lady, Play Your Mandolin! 1931

5.80

In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.

1931

Pagan Moon

Pagan Moon 1932

4.31

On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.

1932

It's Got Me Again!

It's Got Me Again! 1932

5.67

Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.

1932

The Chinese Nightingale

The Chinese Nightingale 1935

5.00

A Chinese emperor is gladdened by the song of the nightingale and is moved to play his own song. One day the Japanese send a music box with a mechanical bird; the nightingale feels rejected and leaves. Soon the clockwork breaks down, and the emperor dispatches his crow to go look for the songbird. The emperor, meanwhile, grows sicker with the passing months.

1935

Bosko's Holiday

Bosko's Holiday 1931

5.06

Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.

1931

Sinkin' in the Bathtub

Sinkin' in the Bathtub 1930

5.74

The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.

1930

The Pups' Christmas

The Pups' Christmas 1936

5.20

On Christmas morning two pups and the household's children are up early. The pups are frightened by a large stuffed dog, a train set, a crying doll, a toy tank, and other toys.

1936

We're in the Money

We're in the Money 1933

5.67

After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.

1933

Bottles

Bottles 1936

8.00

A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.

1936