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Another great collection of Looney Tunes's first star!
Image Entertainment/Bosko Video has given us another fantastic collection of Warner Brothers's near-forgotten first Looney Tunes star. Bosko was a Mickey Mouse-type character with a girlfriend called Honey and a dog called Bruno. Of course, Harman and Ising (Bosko's creators) tried to imitate Disney in their cartoons and it shows, but they are still enjoyable even to this day, with plenty of good music from composer Frank Marsales.
This collection includes the never-released "Bosko and Honey". It comes with its original WB opening and end titles, so has the cartoon "The Booze Hangs High". The rest of the cartoons on this DVD have the Sunset/Guild Films opening and ending titles.
Bosko Video still uses the same Public Domain prints, with dirt and grain aplenty on the pictures, but they are using slighty better prints, with "The Booze Hangs High" shown in a clean print! Still, the quality of both volumes is so much better than most Public Domain video companies.

With no prospect of WB releasing a full set of pristine Bosko cartoons on DVD, this is still an essential buy for any Looney Tunes fan or for lovers of classic animation.

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Passes the three-year old re-watch test
There are problems with this DVD... the edges of the cartoons are clipped a bit. Contrary to the previous reviewer, I don't think much work was put into remastering the cartoons; at least they are no better than I have seen on TV. Nevertheless, this is the only available edition of these cartoons, which are essential items in the history of cartoons. Many of the cartoons also have a "samey" feeling, but that's true of any large collection of cartoons featuring the same character.
Bosko was the first Loony Tunes character, and the animators introduced some real advancements to the art of cartooning (compare to Felix the Cat from the same era). Besides its historical significance, the humor of Bosko is still as fresh today as ever, certainly funnier than most of what is done these days.
Like most early cartoons, Bosko was created for a movie theater audience, and so had to be created with a view to pleasing adults. So there is one cartoon ("The Booze Hangs High") in which two piglets find a bottle, open it and get drunk!
The real test of this DVD for me was whether or not my son (3 years old) would want to watch it. Well, he has several cartoon DVDs, several recent movies, etc, but he watches Bosko as much as any of them.