This redesigned Bosko, whom many consider to be a different character altogether, in spite of having the same name, only starred in a handful of cartoons before Harman and Ising discontinued the character.

Harman and Ising introduced their character Bosko in the first Looney Tunes cartoon, Sinkin ' in the Bathtub, and created a sister series, Merrie Melodies, in 1931.

His cartoons are notable for their generally weak plots and their abundance of music, singing, and dancing ( though there were exceptions, such as Bosko the Doughboy, in 1931 ).

Bosko the Doughboy is a one-reel 1931 short subject animated cartoon, part of the Bosko series.

In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

Despite the parallels between Bosko and the blackface performers, Ising in later years would deny that the character was ever supposed to be a black caricature, and rather claim he was supposed to be " an inkspot kind of thing.

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid is a 1929 live-action short film produced to sell a series of Bosko cartoons, was never released to theaters, and therefore not seen by a wide audience until 71 years later on Cartoon Network's television special Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons.

Curiously, the cartoon depicts Bosko and Honey as dog-like funny animals similar to the lead characters of the later TV show Animaniacs, presumably so as not to offend viewers with the original black-face characterizations.

The Bosko Video set was later issued on DVD by Image Entertainment as The Complete Superman Collection: Diamond Anniversary Edition in 2000.

Bosko became their first star character, surpassed only much later by Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.

Notably, this is the only publicly released Bosko short to feature Bosko's original blackface dialect ; he would later adopt a more falsetto voice for later films.

Bosko made a surprise cameo in a 1990 episode of the television series Tiny Toon Adventures called " Fields of Honey ," in which Babs Bunny, after being told by the Acme Looniversity's mysterious vaultkeeper about Honey ( voiced by B. J.

At first, Bosko appeared in his original design and some of the old animation from the Looney Tunes series was even reused in those Happy Harmonies that features Bosko.

" The slogan had also been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of every Looney Tunes cartoon.

In 1929 former Disney animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising made a cartoon entitled Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid, and tried to sell it to a distributor in 1930.

Bosko is an animated cartoon character created by animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.

Bosko is the first recurring character in Leon Schlesinger's cartoon series, and is the star of over three dozen Looney Tunes shorts released by Warner Bros.

Harman began thinking about making a sound cartoon with Bosko in 1927, before he even left Walt Disney.

In May 1929, they produced a short pilot cartoon, similar to Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell cartoons, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid that showcased their ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing.

Schlesinger saw the Harman-Ising test film and signed the animators to produce cartoons at their studio for him to sell to Warner Bros. Bosko became the star vehicle for the studio's new Looney Tunes cartoon series.

In early cartoons, Bosko ( voiced by Carman Maxwell ) even speaks in an exaggerated version of black speech ( However, this was only in the first cartoon.

Looking at unemployment if the cartoon failed to generate interest, Freleng moved to New York City to work on Mintz ' Krazy Kat cartoons, all the while still trying to sell the Harman-Ising Bosko picture.

The cartoon finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who soon secured Harman and Ising to star Bosko in the Looney Tunes series he was producing for Warner Bros. Freleng soon moved back to California to work with Harman and Ising once again.

Harman and Ising had long aspired to start their own studio, and had created and copyrighted the cartoon character Bosko in 1928.

The cartoon featured Bosko at odds with his animator – portrayed in live-action by Rudy Ising ; impressed Leon Schlesinger, who paired Harman and Ising with Warner Bros. Schlesinger wanted the Bosko character to star in a new series of cartoons he dubbed Looney Tunes ( the title being a parody of Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies ).

Without his animators and Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid, the star character they had taken with them, Schlesinger was desperate to build his own cartoon studio and maintain his contract with Warner Bros.

The cartoon is usually considered one of the better Hugh Harman Bosko cartoons.

Bosko the Doughboy is notable for its departure from the standard cartoon formula of its era.

Also, this is the first publicly released non-Disney cartoon to have a pre-recorded soundtrack ( in addition, " Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid " had a pre-synched track.

* Honey, the girlfriend of the Warner Bros. cartoon character Bosko

Congo Jazz is a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Warner Bros .' first cartoon star, Bosko.

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 ( released in 2005 ) also includes the first Looney Tunes short, Sinkin ' in the Bathtub ( which originally introduced Bosko and Honey to audiences in 1930 ) as an extra.

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, Disc 4 also avalible on disc 3 as part of Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons

Besides animating for Harman-Ising, Maxwell also performed the voice of their most famous creation, Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid.

In the 1933 short Bosko's Picture Show, Bosko appears to use the word " fuck ", although it has also been suggested that the character is saying " fox ", or even " mug ".

After losing their jobs at the Winkler studio, Harman and Ising financed a short Bosko demonstration film called Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid.

In the book Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, animator Bob Clampett is quoted as describing Buddy as " Bosko in whiteface ".

The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while singing " Singin ' in the Bathtub ".

He also starred in several films on TV and video releases such as Detonator, Bar-Hopping, Dumb Luck, Face Value and Danielle Steel's Mixed Blessings.

In late 2010, he guest starred as Doctor Wallace in Season 5 of Sea Patrol, which aired in July 2011 on Channel 9.

Alyn also starred in movie serials, including Federal Agents Vs. Underworld Inc. ( 1948 ), Radar Patrol Vs. Spy King ( 1950 ) and Blackhawk ( 1952 ).

His text stories in Captain Marvel Adventures, under the " Eando " pseudonym, starred Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Patrol.

He starred in Ski Patrol ( 1990 ) and produced and acted in Comic Book: The Movie ( 2004 ).

He guest starred on another CBBC show, Prank Patrol, as a judge in a talent show prank, and appears as the crazy brother of Ross in the CBBC show Chute !.