History WesternAnimation / BoskoTheTalkInkKid1929

The cartoon starts with animator Rudy Ising drawing Bosko on a sheet of paper, who springs to life in front of his eyes. The cartoon (voiced by Carmen "Max" Maxwell) introduces himself as Bosko, and Ising asks Bosko if he can perform tricks for him and entertain the (offscreen) audience, which he agrees to do.

The cartoon starts with an unnamed cartoonist (depicted by animator Rudy Ising) drawing Bosko on a sheet of paper, who springs to life in front of his eyes. The cartoon (voiced by Carmen "Max" Maxwell) introduces himself as Bosko, and the cartoonist asks Bosko if he can perform tricks for him and entertain the (offscreen) audience, which he agrees to do.

* RandomEventsPlot: The cartoon has no plot to speak of. It's just Rudy Ising getting Bosko to do various tricks for the audience, [[AluminiumChristmasTrees just like in a "chalk talk"]]. Justified as this is a pilot short made as a pitch to Warner Bros. to see if the character would be worth using for their animated shorts and some pitch pilots don't have plots to speak of (and if they do, it's rudimentary stuff made to outline the character or series).

* StandardSnippet: When Bosko does a stereotypical Yiddish dance, he also sings an acapella of the song [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXkhfFmsiDs "Khosn Kale Mazel Tov".]]

''Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1929]] short cartoon directed by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising]]. It is the pilot film for the entire ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' franchise, and the debut of ''WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid''. The film is notable for being one of the earliest (but not the first) attempts at synchronizing spoken dialogue with animation.

Obviously, the film won over Leon Schlesinger, and the ''Looney Tunes'' series was subsequently greenlit, with the series officially launching the following year with ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub''. The cartoon was never released theatrically, and was only intended to be a privately-screened pilot for the series. It eventually fell into the PublicDomain and can be found online, as well as the first volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series. Cartoon Network also aired a cut-for-time version of this short as part of their ''[=ToonHeads=]'' special about lost, rare, and obscure Warner Bros. works (''[=ToonHeads=]: The Lost Cartoons'').

Obviously, the film won over Leon Schlesinger, and the ''Looney Tunes'' series was subsequently greenlit, with the series officially launching the following year with ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub''. The cartoon was never released theatrically, and was only intended to be a privately screened pilot for the series. It eventually fell into the PublicDomain and can be found online, as well as the first volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series.

* RandomEventsPlot: The cartoon has no plot to speak of. It's just Rudy Ising getting Bosko to do various tricks for the audience, [[AluminiumChristmasTrees just like in a "chalk talk"]].

* StandardSnippet: When Bosko does a stereotypical yiddish dance, he also sings an acapella of the song [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXkhfFmsiDs "Khosn Kale Mazel Tov".]]

The cartoon starts with an unnamed cartoonist (depicted by animator Rudy Ising) drawing Bosko on a sheet of paper, who springs to life in front of his eyes. The cartoon (voiced by Carmen "Max" Maxwell") introduces himself as Bosko, and the cartoonist asks Bosko if he can perform tricks for him and entertain the (offscreen) audience, which he agrees to do.

* ShoutOut: Bosko sings Al Jolson's 1928 hit "Sonny Boy" from ''The Singing Fool''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Entire more so than ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'', since there's very little music present at all in the film. There's also no opening or ending credits. Most distinctly, the cartoon isn't actually called a ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon as a result.

* RandomEventsPlot: The cartoon has no plot to speak of. It's just Rudy Ising getting Bosko to do various tricks for the audience.

* ShortFilm: Even shorter than the future ''Looney Tunes'', since it runs for less than five minutes.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Entire more so than ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'', since there's very little music present at all in the film. There's also no opening or ending credits. Most distinctly, the cartoon isn't actually called a Looney Tunes cartoon as a result.

* ShortFilm: Even shorter than the future Looney Tunes, since it runs for less than five minutes.

The cartoon was never released theatrically, and was only intended to be a privately screened pilot for the series. It eventually fell into the PublicDomain and can be found online, as well as the first volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series.

''Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid'' is a 1929 short cartoon directed by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising]]. It is the pilot film for the entire ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' franchise, and the debut of ''WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid''. The film is notable for being one of the earliest (but not the first) attempts at synchronizing spoken dialogue with animation.

''Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid'' is a 1929 short cartoon directed by [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising]]. It is the pilot film for the entire ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' franchise, and the debut of ''WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid''.

* RogerRabbitEffect: The film is clearly channeling WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell in the bits where Rudy Ising and Bosko interact on-screen.

* IncrediblyLongNote: Bosko holds a very long note while singing "Sonny Boy" near the end, which annoys Rudy Ising enough to make him suck Bosko back into the ink pen from whence he came.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Entire more so than ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'', since there's very little music present at all in the film. There's also no opening or ending credits. Most distinctly, the cartoon isn't actually ''called'' a Looney Tunes cartoon as a result.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Entire more so than ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'', since there's very little music present at all in the film. There's also no opening or ending credits.

The cartoon starts with an unnamed cartoonist (depicted by animator Rudy Ising) drawing Bosko on a sheet of paper, who springs to life in front of his eyes. The character introduces himself as Bosko, and the cartoonist asks Bosko if he can perform tricks for him and entertain the (offscreen) audience, which he agrees to do.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Entire more so than ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'', since there's very little music present at all in the film.

* RandomEventsPlot: The cartoon has no plot to speak of. It's just Rudy Ising getting Bosko to do various tricks for the audience.

''Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid'' is a 1929 short cartoon directed by Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. It is the pilot film for the entire ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' franchise, and the debut of ''WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid''.

''Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid'' is a 1929 short cartoon directed by Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. It is the pilot film for the entire ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' franchise.