The Booze Hangs High

The Booze Hangs High 1930

5.00

Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.

1930

The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives

The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives 1933

5.00

Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild. He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.

1933

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! 1931

5.23

A streetcar conductor has adventures with a would-be passenger hippo, a cow blocking the tracks, and a runaway train while he, his passengers, and some hobos sing the title song.

1931

It's Got Me Again!

It's Got Me Again! 1932

5.50

Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.

1932

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid 1929

5.40

Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.

1929

Ain't Nature Grand!

Ain't Nature Grand! 1931

4.80

Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.

1931

Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

Lady, Play Your Mandolin! 1931

5.70

In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.

1931

The Wayward Pups

The Wayward Pups 1937

4.00

The cat of the house has its nap interrupted by two playing puppies, which sets off a chain of events.

1937

Sinkin' in the Bathtub

Sinkin' in the Bathtub 1930

5.70

The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.

1930

Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams 1938

5.00

The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of tobacco smoking paraphernalia comes to life.

1938

The Chinese Nightingale

The Chinese Nightingale 1935

5.00

A Chinese emperor is gladdened by the song of the nightingale and is moved to play his own song. One day the Japanese send a music box with a mechanical bird; the nightingale feels rejected and leaves. Soon the clockwork breaks down, and the emperor dispatches his crow to go look for the songbird. The emperor, meanwhile, grows sicker with the passing months.

1935

Hold Anything

Hold Anything 1930

5.20

Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.

1930

Congo Jazz

Congo Jazz 1930

4.90

Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.

1930

Goopy Geer

Goopy Geer 1932

5.30

At a nightclub, the crowd demands Goopy Geer, and the lanky dog doesn't disappoint them. He gives a zany performance on the piano, but the employees and the customers are just as wacky. A gorilla waiter dances while serving. Three identical cats display a peculiar way of eating. A chicken has a nauseating way of making chicken soup. The nightclub singer tells corny jokes. Even the hat racks come to life and dance. A horse imbibing a too-strong drink provides the show-stopper.

1932

Bottles

Bottles 1936

8.00

A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.

1936

The Lost Chick

The Lost Chick 1935

7.00

A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.

1935

A Great Big Bunch of You

A Great Big Bunch of You 1932

5.30

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a working piano from junk, then plays and sings the title song. Various discarded items join in with song or dance.

1932

The Discontented Canary

The Discontented Canary 1934

6.00

A canary is frustrated by being caged. One day the kind old lady who owns him opens a nearby window, and also leaves the door to the cage open. Freedom! But it's not all it's cracked up to be.

1934