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Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)

  • Writer: Alfredo Leon
    Alfredo Leon
  • Oct 7, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 12, 2022

Directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising


Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid was produced on May 29, 1929. It is a live-action/animated short film.


The cartoon pioneered the pre-synch technique, now standard in American animation, as Harman and Ising understood the shortcomings of recording the sound after the animation in relation to dialogue. It is a mixture of hand drawn animation and a live action section of Rudolf Ising himself, appearing on-screen in the short next to Bosko, who in itself was voiced by Carman Maxwell. Apparently, the entire soundtrack was filmed on the spot, with Maxwell being off-camera.



Rudolf Ising drawing Bosko wiht his ink pen.



It shows Ising thinking of ideas for a new character until Bosko comes to life and showcases his potential and all the things he is cpable of doing.

He then breaks the 4th wall and Ising instricts him to entertain the audience. After a while Ising says this is enough and retracts Bosko back into his fountain pen, and then back into the ink bottle. Bosko then pops out of the ink bottle and promises to return.

The film was never released to theaters, and therefore not seen by a wide audience until 2000 on Cortoon Network's television special Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons. It was considered lost for many decades, with only the film's vitaphone soundtrack still in existence and Turner Entertainment Co. had a 35 mm copy, but did not acknowledge its existence until 1999.


Despite all this, I came across it quite easily via Youtube.

 
 
 

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