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HAPPY HARMONIES ('36 stock) HAPPY HARMONIES ('36 stock) 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2h133 HAPPY HARMONIES linen 1sh 1936 cartoon art of tuba playing frog, Bosko the black boy & others! Date Sold 12/9/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Happy Harmonies, the 1936 stock poster ("One of the Harman-Ising Happy Harmonies"; "Musical cartoon in Technicolor"; produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising) used by theaters showing Happy Harmonies cartoons in 1936 or after. They would order this stock poster (which was sometimes sent blank, and sometimes sent with titles of specific movies overprinted in the bottom area). When a poster was sent blank, the theater would either place a snipe in the blank area, overprint the title themselves, or hand write in the name of the particular Happy Harmonies cartoon they were showing that week, and then they could reuse the poster with a different snipe at a later time, thus getting many posters for the price of one! Note that this specific stock poster for the Happy Harmonies cartoons showing Bosko is rare. Perhaps this is because it only made sense to be used when a theater was showing Bosko cartoons, and those cartoons were not made very long at MGM, so maybe these posters were quickly discarded in favor of other posters that did not show Bosko (and we have never seen a "non-stock" poster for any Bosko cartoon). They may well have been made, but if so, they are incredibly scarce (and this stock poster, which is the only way to get Bosko on an MGM cartoon poster, is almost as scarce!). Note that "Bosko" the black African American boy who appeared in these cartoons and on the stock poster together with his girlfriend Honey, was a major character in early sound animation. Appearing with Bosko were some musical frogs, who were meant to represent black African American jazz musicians. They were created by Harman and Ising when they worked as Disney in 1927, but they did not get to make the first Bosko cartoon until 1929. That cartoon was the first cartoon to have synchronized speech in a sound cartoon (the earlier Disney cartoons only had synchronized sound). Harman and Ising then went to Warner Bros., where they made many Bosko cartoons in the Looney Tunes series. In 1933, they left Warner Bros. and moved to MGM, taking Bosko with them, because they owned the rights. They started the Happy Harmonies series, and they changed Bosko's appearance, making him more of a identifiable human (with an overactive imagination). He only appeared in a few cartoons, and then Harman and Ising were fired by MGM for spending too much, and they were replaced by Fred Quimby! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a "stock" one-sheet created by MGM for use by theaters showing Happy Harmonies cartoons in the 1930s. This particular stock poster is undated, but it is surely from 1936 (it has a litho number, and comparing this number to our massive database of litho numbers taken from actual movie posters, we can determine that this poster is almost certainly from 1936). Theaters would order this poster, which has a large blank area at lower right. The theater would either write in the name of the specific Happy Harmonies cartoon they were showing that week (or glue on a paper snipe), thus getting many posters for the price of one. This particular poster was overprinted with the title "Bosko and the Pirates". What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold and tiny paper loss at the bottom crossfold. It had a few tiny bits of paper loss on small parts of some folds and minor border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The person who backed the poster did not glue it properly, and it is now separating from the linen in a few areas in the edges of the top and bottom borders and in the left end of the bottom horizontal fold, where there is now separation in the left 2" of that fold, and a 1" tear above it. Any restorer could quickly re-glue these areas without re-backing the poster, and after a simple re-gluing, it will look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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