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Bosko the Doughboy (English Subtitled)
Cartoon
The cartoon opens with images of explosions, gunfire, and heavy artillery; one character even fires into the camera. It is World War I, and the ever-cheerful Bosko is a doughboy eating down in a trench.
Enemy fire destroys his meal, and later a picture of his girlfriend, Honey. Bosko shows a rare moment of anger but is quickly cheered up by a fellow soldier. The two begin to dance, only to be interrupted by more gunfire.
Bosko finally decides to fight back and downs an enemy bomber (actually a pelican) by using a fellow soldier as a cannon.
A friendly hippopotamus is shot down by heavy artillery, which Bosko destroys with a pair of Longjohns-turned-catapult. He then saves the wounded soldier by unzipping his navel and retrieving the shell inside.
The projectile explodes anyway, turning the already black-faced Bosko even blacker and prompting him to exclaim "Mammy!" à la Al Jolson. (Wikipedia)
Movie Info
Directed by: Hugh Harman
Produced by: Leon Schlesinger
Starring: Johnny Murray, Rudolf Ising
Music by: Frank Marsales
Animation by: Rollin Hamilton, Max Maxwell
Production company: Harman-Ising Productions
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date: October 17, 1931
Running time: 7 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English, English subtitled
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