Ain't Nature Grand! (1931)

Release Date:

March 1931 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.

Plot Keywords:

Bosko | Ladybug | Frog | Fishing | Beehive

Cast

Carman Maxwell

...

Bosko (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Hugh Harman		(uncredited)
Rudolf Ising		(uncredited)

Produced by
Hugh Harman	....	producer
Rudolf Ising	....	producer
Leon Schlesinger	....	producer

Original Music by
Frank Marsales

Animation Department
Norm Blackburn	....	animator
Friz Freleng	....	animator (as Isadore Freleng)

Production Companies

• Leon Schlesinger Studios
• Vitaphone Corporation, The

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (Vitaphone)

Company:

Leon Schlesinger Studios

Soundtrack:

The Kiss Waltz

Bosko shows his love for nature but nature (for the most part) does not reciprocate

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This cartoon is a largely routine and exceedingly forgettable short. There are one or two fairly decent bits that I'll likely discuss, so consider this your spoiler warning:

This short is set in the great outdoors, with Bosko going fishing. Bosko decides that he can't put the worm on the hook and use it for bait, so he lets it go-whereupon it's spied by a bird and nearly become food rather than freed. The chase scene between bird and worm is a good deal more interesting than most of Bosko's bits. Bosko pets a fish he catches, which spits in his eye for his efforts.

Bosko wanders around and various critters dance and do little bits. There's a particularly nice bit with some frogs and one with a spider and Bosko is involved here and there. The climax of the short has Bosko attacked by insects which bomb him and cause him to jump into a fountain for cover. I found myself cheering on the bugs.

Not really a bad cartoon, but there were much more interesting Bosko shorts than this one. You can tell it's early in the game for Warner Brothers animation. They were way behind Disney and Fliescher and Lantz were also much better at this point. Worth seeing once.