01 Oct 1930
Hold Anything
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.
The Tree's Knees
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
Top Billed Cast
Johnny Murray Bosko / Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
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The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
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