Bosko

Bosko is an animated cartoon character created by animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. Though considered dull in comparison to later Looney Tunes players, Bosko was Warner Bros. Studios' first major recurring character and the star of over three dozen Looney Tunes shorts.

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Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising were veterans of Walt Disney Studios, and they created Bosko to capitalize on the new "talkie" craze that was sweeping the motion picture industry. Harman designed the character (consciously modeling him after Felix the Cat) and, in 1929, starred him in a short film, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid, that showcased his ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing. The short, plotless cartoon opens with live action footage of Ising at a drafting table. After he draws Bosko on the page, the character springs to life, talks, sings, and dances. Ising returns Bosko to the inkwell, and the short ends.

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