Box Car Blues
About Box Car Blues
Bosko and a pig with a banjo ride the last boxcar, singing until Bosko's mournful "Cryin' for the Carolines" makes the pig cry. On a steep climb the car is left behind. Bosko is knocked along the train, onto a cow, and back onto the car as it tears downhill. The car hits a tree. Parts rain down, the pig wakes and opens an umbrella, and his own banjo conks him. Bosko picks up the banjo and they start off again.
Cast & crew
More about Box Car Blues
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising directed the fifth Bosko Looney Tunes short. Frank Marsales wrote the music. Warner Bros. and Vitaphone distributed it. The earliest known release date is 18 October 1930. Bernard B. Brown is the uncredited voice.
Themes
Background
Harman and Ising were making the first season of Looney Tunes for Warner Bros. after leaving Disney, with Bosko as the series star.
Music
Frank Marsales scored the short. Bosko sings "Cryin' for the Carolines."
Preservation
The cartoon survives.
Notes
- It is the fifth Looney Tunes cartoon and the fifth to star Bosko.
- The song Bosko sings to make the pig cry is "Cryin' for the Carolines.
- A mountain drawn with a body blocks the view while the train climbs.
- Tracks of different widths slice the train open inside a tunnel.
- Bernard B. Brown supplies Bosko's voice, without a credit.
Scenes
- Bosko's sad chorus of "Cryin' for the Carolines" reduces the pig to tears.
- The boxcar is cut loose on the climb and Bosko is bounced onto a running cow.
- The pig opens an umbrella against falling debris and is hit by his own banjo.
