Happy Harmonies
About Happy Harmonies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first foray into their own animation department was not quite in house. Rather than build an in house animation studio, MGM hired out the already existing Harman-Ising Productions to produce this series for them. The series was planned as an answer to Disney's Silly Symphonies series, musical animated shorts with no real continuing characters shown before studio feature films.
When they left Warner Bros. for MGM, Harman and Ising brought their popular Looney Tunes character Bosko with them. Redesigned to a more human character, Bosko proved to be the only recurring character from the series.
Cartoons
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The Discontented Canary
A canary, unhappy with his life in a cage, manages to escape. He flies happily through the outdoors and tries life in the wild to the strains of "Man on the Flying Trapeze." However, he fin…
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The Old Pioneer
An old geezer- with perhaps a bit of Baron Munchausen in him- tells of his heroic exploits to a newsboy hawking papers at a cigar store, with a huge statue of a wooden Indian outside. The p…
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Tale Of The Vienna Woods
A deer prances in the woods, and a statue of the mythical, flute-playing Pan comes to life. Pan befriends the young fawn. They dance, play tricks on each other, and tangle with a pack of hu…
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Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.
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Toyland Broadcast
A toy shop becomes a radio station in this musical special with an all-star toy cast.
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Hey-Hey Fever
In this musical extravaganza, Bosko goes to Mother Goose Land and advocates a back-to-the-land cure for the Depression! Bosko and Bruno have had a hard day fishing, and they are tired and h…
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When The Cat's Away
Happy mice and cockroaches are looting a kitchen full of goodies. When the housecat goes out for some romance, mice have a party and cockroaches hold a dance. The mice all mount a marvelous…
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The Lost Chick
A chicken has hatched seven chicks; she locates six of them, but the seventh, Eggbert, is lost. Two squirrels find an egg that has accidentally rolled out a mother hen's nest and down a hil…
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The Calico Dragon
A doll-faced little girl reads a fairy tale to her doll at bedtime. After she nods off, her stuffed animals and other characters come to life on the landscape of her bed. All of the creatur…
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Good Little Monkeys
Three statuettes of monkeys come to life and are tempted by the Devil, who uses peanuts and an exotic dancer. Just before the monkeys enter the Devil's flames, they are saved by various boo…
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The Chinese Nightingale
A mini-musical, telling in song (through a trio of Chinese girls) the fairy tale of a beautiful nightingale, beloved of the Chinese emperor, who is gladdened by its song. The emperor is mov…
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Poor Little Me
An unwanted skunk, Stinky, sings "I Ain't Got Nobody" until he meets a girl. Then the villain comes along.
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Barnyard Babies
There is a baby contest going on in the barn, but the rooster and hen haven't hatched their brood yet! The rooster is awaiting the arrival of the "blessed event," but he tries to hurry the…
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The Old Plantation
Several toys (including lots of stereotyped black toys) try and help their plantation owner by holding a toy horse race so Simon Legree can't foreclose.
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Honeyland
All the bees in Honeyland have a perfect Utopian society, working hard to mass-produce honey all day making honey for the winter while singing merry tunes. A boy and girl bee wander off to…
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Alias St. Nick
It's Christmas Eve, and Mrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood, but Little Cheeser is having none of it- he doesn't believe in Santa Claus! Meanwhile, outside, a vag…
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Run, Sheep, Run
Bosko and his dog Bruno are guarding some sheep. Bosko is sleeping and not watching his flock carefully. The youngest and most mischievous in the herd is a black sheep who runs into the woo…
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Bottles
A busy old pharmacist falls asleep one night while working in his apothecary, and has a wild dream in which all of the bottles in his store come to life, and he shrinks down and becomes a p…
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The Early Bird And The Worm
A sprightly young bird gets up early, the better to get the jump on his neighborhood worm, but he finds his quarry elusive. The worm, for his part, sets off with a flute and jazzes along ha…
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The Old Mill Pond
A bunch of musician lookalike frogs cut a rug in this swing extravaganza.
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Two Little Pups
A big old chicken comes over a wall and into the garden of an estate where two very cute puppies are living. The feisty little pups cause havoc as they chase around the chicken. Then the ch…
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The Old House
Bosko, Bruno and his honey, Honey dare to go inside an old, abandoned (and haunted) house with wild and frightening results. The trio have every reason to believe the place is haunted, with…
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The Pups' Picnic
Two puppies at a picnic are scolded for nosing around the food. They wander off and stumble on a fox hunt, spotting the fox after all of the big dogs have sped ahead. The wily fox then stum…
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To Spring
A group of elves is in charge of adding color back to the landscape for spring! Old Man Winter fights back, pushing the lever to turn the "spring machine" off!
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Little Cheeser
Cheeser the mouse doesn't want to go to bed. In a fitful sleep, he has good and bad "angels" to help him decide right from wrong. The "good angel" (on one shoulder) teaches Cheeser to smoke…
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The Pups' Christmas
What kind of toys are they that stand up and hit from front, side and back, that grab one's tails, punch one's nose and roll you over? That's what two frisky little pups ask when they go on…
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Circus Daze
Bosko and Honey are two black children who have a wild adventure at the circus.
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Swing Wedding
This politically incorrect cartoon is very reminiscent of "Cabin In The Sky," in that a very sexy Ethel Waters (as Minnie the Moocher) is about to be married to Stepin Fetchit (as Smoky Joe…
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Bosko's Easter Eggs
Bosko decides to help his girlfriend Honey collect eggs to color for Easter. He and his dog Bruno have all kinds of trouble with the chickens. Bruno breaks the eggs that Bosko "wuz deliveri…
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Little Ol' Bosko And The Pirates
Bosko is told to go straight to "Gramma's" with a fresh batch of cookies. Straight to Gramma's Bosko goes, but his imagination gets distracted along the way. He hears the woodpeckers and be…
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The Hound And The Rabbit
A round little-boy bunny who's a member of a football team befriends a lost, but irrepressibly chummy, angular hunting dachshund and names him Sniffy. Sniffy is enlisted into the rabbits' f…
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The Wayward Pups
Two small puppies escape from their yard and go exploring the dangerous suburb. They get into serious strife, which ends in a fast-paced chase involving most of the neighborhood.
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Little Ol' Bosko And The Cannibals
Bosko's mammy gives him some cookies to take to Grandma's house. Unfortunately, his imagination takes him to a jungle village full of cannibal cookie-eating frogs that try to get his cookie…
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Pipe Dreams
The "three good monkeys" are tempted to smoke some Helz Fire Tobacco. They explore the tobacco shop, a world of match box trains and talking cigars.
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The Little Bantamweight
When the eggs begin to hatch, Papa Rooster starts training his little fighters for the big bantamweight match. All the chicks look tough - except for one "mama's boy." Pop tries to forget a…
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Little Ol' Bosko In Bagdad
Bosko is a little black kid who is sent out to take some cookies to his grandma when he meets an Arab frog who takes him on a magic carpet to a land where other frogs, who play jazz, want t…
