Hugh Harman Trailers
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Hugh Harman began work with Walt Disney in 1922 on the Laugh-O-Gram shorts. Harman and his partner, Rudolf Ising, then rejoined Disney for the Oswald cartoons, but stayed with producer Charles Mintz after Disney was let go.
Harman joined Warner Bros., but left in 1933 for MGM where he and Ising found success with the "Happy Harmonies" before being eclipsed by the animators of the time: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera--whom they hired.
Most Popular Hugh Harman Trailers
Total trailers found: 178
27 April 1935
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.
21 February 1942
It's the dead of winter, a hungry wolf is out of food, and he's desperate.
05 September 1927
Oswald, the trolley conductor gets stopped in the tracks by a cow who refuses to move. He then faces a steep hill, which the trolley has trouble with.
05 August 1933
Utensils and food dance, sing, and play in the kitchen, until a lump of dough turns into a monster and they all unite to stop it.
25 June 1932
Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
09 December 1938
Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony.
14 November 1927
Oswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund lifted into the air by balloons.
17 March 1929
Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.
13 May 1933
A camp of Russian gypsies, dancing and playing music. After an opening dance, a quartet of beer-drinkers gargles the Volga Boatman song, then another group hauling on a rope sings it (we finally see that the other end of the rope is anchored by a very small dog).
08 February 1936
A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.
10 September 1932
A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil large predator.
13 August 1932
Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
01 October 1930
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.
03 October 1927
Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success.
08 July 1933
An animated singing and dancing revue of babies (representing a variety of stereotypes) who are being prepared for delivery by stork.
16 September 1927
Oswald's sweetheart is stolen by a schoolyard bully, so he has to fight him during recess to win her back.
08 June 1940
Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.
16 April 1932
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.
19 April 1930
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.
13 May 1939
An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out.
06 February 1932
Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog.
19 November 1932
Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
05 September 1931
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.
09 December 1939
Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men".
17 October 1931
Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War.
04 June 1936
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
10 June 1933
After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform.
06 February 1928
A pastoral outing as Oswald and his friends take in the delights on a swimming hole.
02 March 1946
Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fuckey
30 April 1932
Bosko, carrying his hobo stick, travels along the railroad tracks with his dog, Bruno. Unfortunately, they're both on the tracks as they cross a bridge and realize that a train is coming perilously near.
26 December 1931
The old toymaker goes to sleep, and his toys immediately come to life and sing "Red-Headed Baby." A red-haired baby doll begins the song.
19 September 1931
Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals.
04 February 1938
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.
11 May 1935
Bunnies, turtles, and other small woodland animals play. A child skunk remains apart, heartbroken that he has no friends.
01 May 1929
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.
03 October 1931
Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.
16 November 1935
Mrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood when a cat tries to break in. The cat overhears them arguing about the existence of Santa, so he dresses up accordingly.
30 May 1936
Two little puppies, one black, one brown, go on a picnic outing with their human family. The pups wind up unwitting participants in a fox hunt.
01 January 1945
Commandments for Health examines why personal cleanliness is important for soldiers on the Pacific front.
01 January 1925
Alice and her cat are driving along the coast when they accidentally ride off a cliff and into the ocean.
29 April 1928
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, goes in pursuit of Peg-Leg Pete.
11 January 1936
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.
24 November 1934
Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.
22 August 1927
Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
02 May 1927
Pete, dressed in a suit of armor, steals away the female that Julius is after. So Julius devises his own suit of armor, made mostly out of junk, to win her back.
31 January 1932
On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
09 December 1930
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.
13 August 1931
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.
21 February 1941
The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride.
19 October 1935
A group of brave honey bees attempt to rescue a girl bee who's been abducted by a spider.
15 September 1934
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.
01 March 1924
Alice's trip to the sea inspires her to dream of a visit to an animated underwater world.
22 November 1954
Woody Woodpecker is a piano tuner forced to play after a bank robber hides out in the piano and points a gun at him.
20 May 1931
Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.
19 November 1932
An unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date.
30 December 1939
A world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.
05 April 1941
A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home.
10 July 1937
The cat of the house has its nap interrupted by two playing puppies, which sets off a chain of events.
04 March 1933
Warner Bros. animated short featuring the song 'Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)'
01 May 1936
A Bosko color cartoon in a haunted house.
