Box Car Blues
Box Car Blues
| 15 December 1930 (USA)
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Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar.

Reviews
Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
Macerat It's Difficult NOT To Enjoy This Movie
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . (or steam whistle, to be precise). While seeing a Choo-Choo suddenly sprout hands and choke its own sounding apparatus to produce an Old Timey (from Today's perspective) railroad greeting may have amused Young Folks back in the day, what should it convey to We Millennials of the 21st Century, given that we're aware that virtually EVERY Looney Tune is embedded with a warning subtext from Warner Bros.' prophetic animators meant to alert People of Today of America's upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti. Obviously, this little engine that CAN'T (each accident on the tracks representing another failed marriage, bankrupt casino, and LOST presidential election, but still insists upon tooting its old horn with unabashed braggadocio) represents White House Resident-Elect Rump (though the engine's usually hidden hands seem much bigger than Donald J. Duck's Teenie Tiny Appendages). The lady disguised as a mountain whom the climbing engine Depants obviously is meant to represent the countless victims of Serial Finger Rapist Rump (to which his ACCESS H0LLYWOOD taped confession alludes). What happens to this Donald the Tanking Engine at the end? (SPOILER ALERT) In a horrendous crash, this Engine of America's Destruction explodes in a deafening collision, raining down decades worth of debris on Bosko, his banjo-playing hobo hippo buddy, and the rest of the USA!
tavm Just watched this Bosco cartoon on YouTube. In this one, he's on a train with someone singing a song as that train goes up a really steep hill with some of the tracks missing. Then the train breaks apart with Bosco on the last one that disconnects and goes the other way. I'll stop there and just say there's quite a bit of unusual gags that you'll only find in these late silent/early talkie cartoons when animators were at their most cartoony, no matter how absurd they truly were. Like that "hill" becoming a person who pulls up his/her pants which causes the disconnected track to connect. Oh, and while Bosco adopts his "Mickey Mouse" falsetto here, when he says "Mammy!" in a dark place, you can bet some of his origins were in imitation of Al Jolson! So on that note, Box Car Blues is worth a look for anyone interested in these early animations.
Mozjoukine One of the best of the Boscos, with the runaway freight car giving the animators the chance for all manner of dynamic movement and the repeats they use only adding to the rhythm. Bosco shouting "Mammy" in close up on his third tunnel is about as funny as it gets.Our hero has lost his ethnic voice by now.These early cartoons represent a transition between the Pat Sullivan era and the Loony Toons, whose Schlesinger titles they carry, but even apart from that historical novelty, their lively use of black and white makes them agreeable entertainment all this time later.
Robert Reynolds This is a typical Bosko short: put him in a situation, some means of playing music, introduce a predicament or three for him to largely ignore blithely, usually singing as he does so and fill with sight gags. Here, Bosko has a partner in song, a pig rather than Honey. The use of music is the best thing here in an otherwise average cartoon. Worth watching. Recommended for fans of Harman and Ising and the old black and white cartoons.