Bosko's Soda Fountain

1931 ComedyAnimation 7 minutes Directed by Rudolf Ising

About Bosko's Soda Fountain

Bosko works a soda fountain. He serves a float to a mouse who acts like Mickey Mouse, then to his old teacher, a hippo. The mix goes wrong, he uses the mocking mouse as a stirrer, and a fan blows the drink into the hippo's face. A dog eats so much ice cream that his body turns square, and Bosko plays him like an accordion. Honey's son Wilber, dragged through a music lesson, demands a cone, hates the vanilla, and the scrap ends with Bosko in a wash basket and a pair of underwear on his head.

Cast & crew

More about Bosko's Soda Fountain

Hugh Harman directed the fifteenth Bosko Looney Tune. Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, and Leon Schlesinger produced it. Isadore Freleng and Rollin Hamilton animated. Warner Bros. and Vitaphone distributed it. The earliest known release date is October 10, 1931.

Themes

Music

Frank Marsales composed the score.

Notes

  • Wilber, Honey's catlike son, makes his first appearance.
  • Johnny Murray voices Bosko and Wilber. Rochelle Hudson voices Honey. The parts are uncredited.

Scenes

  • Bosko grabs the mouse and uses him to stir the hippo's float.
  • A dog stuffed with ice cream turns square and is played like an accordion.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Bosko's Soda Fountain.webm)