Bosko's Store
Bosko's Store | |
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Bob McKimson (credited as "Drawn by") | |
Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | August 13, 1932 (U.S.A.) |
Running time | 7 min. |
Language | English |
Bosko's Store is a 1932 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Hugh Harman.[1] It was released on August 13, 1932, and stars Bosko, the first star of the series.[2] As is the case with most Looney Tunes of its time, it was directed by Hugh Harman and its music scored by Frank Marsales.
Plot
The story opens with Bosko scatting and whistling a happy tune as he cleans the window of his
A miniature
Bosko steps out and sweeps his porch while dancing, his
Staggering about, Bosko comes to a rest at a cash register whose keyboard's being depressed by Bosko's hand releases its drawer, which strikes Bosko, knocking him backwards again. Back, back he stumbles into a barrel of molasses which falls over, drenching him in its miry, brown former contents. Stuck as in quicksand, the irate Bosko cannot free his feet to chase the little devil, who taunts him accordingly. The scamp climbs a nearby hanging thread to a high shelf only to find that the thread is on a spool; once it has run out, the cat falls toward a store-counter and onto the crank of a meat grinder, spins about on it, is flung into the air, and falls into the grinder, coming out on the floor in droplets that transmute at once into tiny clones of himself and which then rejoin to the victim's bewilderment. Bosko is helpless until he frees his feet from his shoes; that done, the stocking-footed Bosko pursues his tormentor, as the little cat ascends and rides a wheeled ladder, knocking over cans from a high shelf as he does so, which cans, falling, strike poor Bosko's head.
Cornered at last, the imp spies a large spool of woolen thread: reaching for the counter on which it sits, he, taking the end, slyly slips between Bosko's legs and runs, scorching Bosko's rump with the quick-withdrawing thread as he does so. The beaten Bosko holds his pained posterior as the iris unceremoniously shuts.
References
- ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.