Bosko's Picture Show

Bosko's Picture Show, released in 1933, was the last Bosko cartoon produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising for Looney Tunes before they moved to MGM.

Relatively void of plot, the short depicts Bosko hosting a movie show, playing a "Furtilizer" organ (a play on the name Wurlitzer), leading the audience in the song "We're in the Money". He goes on to introduce a mock newsreel which features caricatures of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, as well as a sequence depicting Adolf Hitler pursuing Jimmy Durante with a meat cleaver in hand, possibly the first time Hitler was depicted in an animated cartoon. The climax of the movie is a burlesque melodrama in which a stereotypical villain chases Bosko's girlfriend, Honey.

Censorship

*In the uncensored version of the cartoon, Bosko delivers his comment on the villain by distinctly saying, "That dirty fuck!", possibly a parting shot by Harman and Ising at the Warner Bros. animation head, Leon Schlesinger, with whom they disputed over various matters. The phrase was changed to "That dirty cur!" when this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon for the second time, by dubbing the last line of Bosko's phrase "Stop, you cur!" over the offending line.
*Also cut on Nickelodeon was a brief scene showing Adolf Hitler (shown for the first time in a Warner Brothers cartoon) chasing comedian Jimmy Durante with a meat cleaver.

External links

* Internet Movie Database article at [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023836/]
* Big Cartoon Database article at [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3805-Boskos_Picture_Show.html]
* Toon Zone article at [http://bosko.toonzone.net/1933/boskos_picture_show/]