Bosko's Holiday (1931)

Release Date:

July 1931 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.

Plot Keywords:

Bosko | Picnic | Dog | Alarm Clock | Telephone

Cast

Rochelle Hudson	...	Honey (voice) (uncredited)
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
Friz Freleng	....	animator (as Isadore Freleng)
Paul J. Smith	....	animator (as Paul Smith)

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

Goofs:

Continuity: Bosko takes a bite out of a sandwich that is restored whole the moment he takes his second bite.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Bosko: [on the phone] Hello.
Honey: Hello, Bosko. This is Honey.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Bosko the Lumberjack (1932)

Soundtrack:

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Even less plot than usual in this generic-label Bosko cartoon

Bosko's telephone can't get its owner to wake up no matter how insistently it rings. The phone beats the alarm clock (also sleeping) with its receiver and orders it to wake up their owner. The panicky clock can't get him up either -- not by its own ringing nor by hitting a brush against his bedpan. In desperation, the clock stabs Bosko in the rear with its hand. Bosko wakes up screaming, and sleepily answers the phone. It's Honey. She wants to go on a picnic.

Bosko cranks up the car, sends home the little baby cars that try to follow and drives to her place. Soon the two sweethearts are off to the woods. Bosko easily fixes a tire that his dog bit a hole in. He has less luck winning Honey's forgiveness after whispering an ungentlemanly suggestion in her ear.

"Bosko's Holiday" has even less plot than usual. There isn't even the usual calamity to provide excitement. The gags are crude and rude: at one point, Bosko tries to make Honey hungry by chewing noisily with his mouth open. The short is further undermined by later entries that have scenes and gags nearly identical to this one. The film feels like a generic-label Bosko cartoon.