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
25 June 1932
Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
13 August 1932
Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
01 November 1934
This short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey's kitchen and ruining everything in her house.
07 September 1940
Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
19 October 1935
A group of brave honey bees attempt to rescue a girl bee who's been abducted by a spider.
04 February 1933
Several Chinese residents play music. A dragon frees himself from a cage and goes after them, but fireworks are shoved down the dragon's throat.
01 November 1926
Julius tries to elope with Alice's maid. Alice gets ahold of a policeman and they give pursuit.
04 June 1936
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
01 July 1933
Bosko is a soldier in the Foreign Legion out to capture the desert scourge, Ali Oop.
10 December 1945
Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
01 January 1945
An army film stating the dangers of not taking the malaria medication.
13 December 1935
Bosko is dreaming of sheep following the music he is making.
01 January 1945
Commandments for Health examines why personal cleanliness is important for soldiers on the Pacific front.
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.
24 August 1933
A Van Beuren "Aesop Fable" cartoon featuring Cubby Bear.
01 October 1928
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
29 May 1937
A hound chases a young rabbit, ultimately cornering him against a tree. But the dog doesn't want to eat the rabbit, just make friends.
23 November 1940
This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.
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.
01 May 1936
A Bosko color cartoon in a haunted house.
07 September 1945
A dentist explains to a group of schoolchildren about the continuous battle going on inside out months between "good" blobs that are trying to protect our teeth and "bad" blobs that are trying to fill them full of cavities.
19 November 1932
This is an unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date.
12 December 1936
On Christmas morning two pups and the household's children are up early. The pups are frightened by a large stuffed dog, a train set, a crying doll, a toy tank, and other toys.
01 January 1945
The Seventh Commandment for Health: Thou shalt not use any spots except chosen ones for the deposition of your excrement.
19 March 1937
A Happy Harmonie with Bosko.
12 December 1927
The Christmas celebration of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
12 April 1935
The Devil comes out of Dante's Inferno, hoping to get the See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil monkeys to his side, but a bunch of literary characters come to the rescue of the monkeys.
21 November 1936
Little Cheeser is a young mouse who thinks he's more grown up than he is. Mama tells him to go to bed, calling him "Mama's little man"; he doesn't want to.
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.
08 June 1940
Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.
24 January 1927
Julius discovers that Alice has been captured by Pete and held prisoner on his pirate ship. He sets out to rescue Alice.
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.
15 April 1928
In a foreshadowing of what was to become a staple of the Mickey shorts, Oswald manages his farm along to a musical beat.
29 November 1926
Putrid Pete becomes infatuated with Alice's guitar playing, so he kidnaps her and imprisons her in his castle.
16 May 1927
Alice and Julius have to hold their western fort against The Three Bad Eggs and a band of marauding Indians.
15 July 1939
An MGM cartoon adaptation of the classic fairy tale featuring Hugh Harman's Bear Family.
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.
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.
18 October 1926
When the local hotel is found to be on fire, the firemen (all of them Julius the cat lookalikes), led by Fire Chief Alice, are called in.
15 February 1935
The mice will loot the kitchen. The roaches also get into the act. A rat menaces the lead mouse couple, until the cat returns.
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.
15 October 1932
An expectant father rooster fetches doctor stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one little black one, who gets crowded out of the food.
21 February 1942
It's the dead of winter, a hungry wolf is out of food, and he's desperate.
01 January 1945
The Third Commandment for Health: Drinking Water. Thou shalt not drink water from any other source than that designated, else thou become victim to an unhappy fate more painful than Japanese lead.
01 January 1938
Bosko imagines he's in Baghdad where giant frogs want to steal the cookies he's supposed to deliver to his grandma.
01 June 1924
Alice wants desperately to get out of practicing her piano so she can go have fun with her friends. She tricks her mother into thinking she's still playing by getting her dog to play for her, and then she and the gang hitch a ride to the local pond where they spend their time fishing.
21 March 1933
Bosko enters a road race.
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.
20 September 1935
'Black beauty' must win a race against other toys in order to save the Old Plantation, a doll house.
06 March 1936
The fish and frogs gather at the old mill pond to hear a jazz concert. Performers include caricatures of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and tap dancer Bill Robinson ("Bojangles").
08 July 1928
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short, Walt Disney's earlier character, before going on to create Mickey Mouse.
12 February 1937
This film is very reminiscent of "Cabin in the Sky", in that you have a very sexy Ethel Waters about to be married to Stepin Fetchit.
08 February 1936
A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.
01 August 1931
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
01 May 1937
Bosko going to Grandma's to bring her a bag of cookies. It also has him encountering some frogs meant to caricature some famous African-American musicians of the time who want those cookies as they sing and dance with Bosko in tune for them.
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.
26 August 1933
After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money".
14 May 1932
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.
08 April 1933
A beloved Italian organ grinder plays his music and sings his song through an immigrant-filled ghetto neighborhood, where hard-scrabble kids and well-proportioned matrons get hep to the beat that flows from the organ grinder's calliope.
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.
