Boskos Dizzy Date (1932) 16mm Seven Arts titles

[@jackjackiii]

That's an insane find, never thought I'd see 1968 titles on the early Bosko-era cartoons.

[@stevennorthrup5790]

This short was issued under two names. It can be assumed that "Bosko and Honey" was a working title that somehow made it to print as well as the "Bosko's Dizzy Date" title. "Bosko's Dizzy Date" was ultimately the film released; "Bosko and Honey" was left unreleased. Despite the two being the same short film with very few differences, "Bosko and Honey" fell into the public domain, but not "Bosko's Dizzy Date".

[@TheToonkeeper]

It's nice to finally associate the W7 logo with something other than the lackluster final LT/MM shorts of the late 60s and those horrible redraws of the B&W Porky shorts. Great find!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Imagine a generation seeing Bosko and Buddy with these! 😅

[@donaldfuck]

God I remember to have a VHS with all these cheap redrawn Porky cartoons

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@donaldfuckPainful memories! 😅

[@ShermleyCollege]

...not the seven arts titles i was expecting, that's for certain!

[@LDFE2002]

I heard that it also happened with “Scrap Happy Daffy” (1943).

[@zltoonslc2000rj]

Link?

[@LDFE2002]

@@zltoonslc2000rjIt was an OLD eBay listing from either months ago or last year.

[@accidentallyhonest]

​​@@LDFE2002It also happened with Porky's Preview, it was from a listing on eBay from February 2024 by filmman324.

[@marella-yoplaitlimited7745]

So is this the 1968 reissue?

[@jacksonpb]

I'm sure the "Lost Media" crowd will love this...

[@cartoonsonfilm]

Let the stimming commence.

[@ShermleyCollege]

@@cartoonsonfilm I would really prefer you not resort to making fun of traits commonly associated with people with autism or other disabilities in this regard. Please consider this. Thank you.

[@cartoonsonfilm]

@@ShermleyCollege I’m relaying personal experience, not making fun of anyone. Please consider this possibility before accusing and attacking others over things you read on the internet.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Interesting they did it this way. I thought for a minute the titles were negative over a positive print.

[@dorothytheuyfanatic5118]

That’s extremely rare! Awesome find!

[@dariosmagata8481]

I wonder why they bothered to do this. For the redrawn cartoons, I understand putting on the newest title style since they basically wanted them to look like more recent cartoons, but for a black and white short, what would be the point?

[@ZakWolf]

It was largely for any international markets still willing to show black-and-white cartoons.

[@SpongeDan]

​@@ZakWolfOr B&W TV stations.

[@missvitaphone]

LOL They kept "A Vitaphone Release" on the end title 🙂

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

All the Porky Pig redrawns used this too.

[@ZakWolf]

The dog's barking is the same number of syllables as "A Vitaphone Release!" Freaky...

[@Yoshi9K]

Hey Tommy, could you probably upload some more Aesop’s Fables cartoons for us? We would love to see more of your collection! (I’m just asking, not forcing you to upload it btw)

[@cartoonsonfilm]

@@Yoshi9K Stay tuned for more in upcoming Cartoon Roots home video releases…

[@LDFE2002]

Woah!

[@DanielCraft195]

Is this real or fake?

[@dorothytheuyfanatic5118]

Per the description, it’s real.

[@zltoonslc2000rj]

What is the context for this?? Were these made after WB bought Guild, like with the redrawns?

[@antoniod]

Were any stations buying these in the late 60s?

[@cartoonsonfilm]

I know Puerto Rico was showing B&W cartoons well into the 70s, and the same was probably true in other markets abroad

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@cartoonsonfilmDoesn't surprise me. Still interesting WB didn't redraw these alongside the Porky's.

[@afonsogageiro]

@@cartoonsonfilm Believe it or not, these BW Boskos were still being shown on Portuguese TV as late as 1989! I actually have some on VHS; they used to be shown before the Wednesday Night movie.

[@thetooneytenor]

@@cartoonsonfilmI’m going to ask my mother about this. She was a child in Puerto Rico in the 1970s and she has told me she used to watch films in the AAP library growing up.

[@bobbybickert]

@@afonsogageiro Nickelodeon was showing Bosko, Buddy, the non-Harman-Ising B & W Merrie Melodies, the B & W Porky Pig cartoons that didn't get redrawn like "You Ought To Be In Pictures', "Porky in Wackyland", "Porky at the Trocadero" and "Porky in Egypt", and one shot B & W Looney Tunes like "Joe Glow the Firefly", "Gopher Goofy" and "Hobby Horse-Laffs" as part of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon in the late 1980's. (Though they were missing the end titles and part of the opening titles and had a new copyright superimposed over the title card.) But that mostly came to an end in 1990. ("Sorry Bosko.")

[@J50Fan20]

*let him play cowboy*

[@OfficialJordanRiosVHSReturns96]

I’ve removed your restorations from my Internet Archive account. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[@kingdelbert]

Are you sure this isn't a dupe with those titles spliced on? This looks so weird

[@cartoonsonfilm]

You can’t splice titles on a print without mutilating the soundtrack. Note how the soundtrack is unaffected when the picture switches back and forth between the original element and the new titles.

[@SCMacPeter]

@@cartoonsonfilmFurthermore, it’s probably why some of the redrawns have the seven arts logo attached, because their final B&W prints already had the logo added on

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@SCMacPeterIt's fascinating seeing the patchwork-at-play with these.

[@bobbybickert]

@@SCMacPeter Almost all of the redrawn Looney Tunes I watched on Miami's WCIX in 1978 and 1979 had the Seven Arts titles. The only one that didn't was "Porky's Naughty Nephew", which had Guild Films titles. The only redrawn Looney Tune I've seen with the original WB titles is "The Village Smithy" and that was something I saw online in recent years.

[@thinkbolt]

Wha - - ??

[@agamemnonfireman]

Oh this is so fucking weird

[@luz-flipa-acao-1905]

The reused titles are.... terrible

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

True I suppose just making the color print B&W for a dupe negative wasn't enough.