1933

Bosko in Person, a notable late short starring Bosko and Honey

We're in the Money, one of the last Harman-Ising WB shorts

Buddy, introduced in 1933 in an attempt to create WB's new lead character

1933 was a rather significant year in Looney Tunes history, seeing the departure of Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising who took Bosko and Honey with them; and the beginning of a new Looney Tunes series replacing them starring the human Buddy.

History

• Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising end their ties with Leon Schlesinger. They stop producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and take Bosko with them. Their final Warner Bros. cartoons are released this year, being "Bosko's Picture Show" and "We're in the Money". Bosko would later appear in MGM's Happy Harmonies cartoons.
• Leon Schlesinger sets up his own animation studio continuing LT and MM. To replace Bosko, Buddy is created. Tom Palmer directs his only two cartoons, "Buddy's Day Out" and "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song", although due to both being deemed of poor quality, he was quickly fired and replaced by Friz Freleng, who reworked Palmer's original cartoons. The former was the first to be produced by Schlesinger.
• Animators Jack King, Frank Tashlin, and Chuck Jones, alongside director Earl Duvall join the Schlesinger animation studio.

Theatrical Shorts

1.  "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" (Ising/January 7) 
2.  "Bosko in Dutch" (Harman/January 14)
3.  "One Step Ahead of My Shadow" (Ising/February 4)
4.  "Bosko in Person" (Harman/February 11)
5.  "Young and Healthy" (Ising/March 4)
6.  "Bosko the Speed King" (Harman/March 11)
7.  "The Organ Grinder" (Ising/April 8)
8.  "Bosko's Knight-Mare" (Harman/April 29)
9.  "Wake Up the Gypsy in Me" (Ising/May 13)
10.  "Bosko the Sheep-Herder" (Harman/June 3)
11.  "I Like Mountain Music" (Ising/June 10)
12.  "Beau Bosko" (Harman/July 1)
13.  "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" (Ising/July 8)
14.  "Bosko's Mechanical Man" (Harman/July 29)
15.  "The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon" (Ising/August 5)
16.  "Bosko the Musketeer" (Harman/August 12)
17.  "We're in the Money" (Ising/August 18)
18.  "Bosko's Picture Show" (Harman/August 26)
19.  "Buddy's Day Out" (Palmer, Freleng/September 9)
20.  "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" (Palmer, Freleng/September 23)
21.  "Buddy's Beer Garden" (Duvall/November 11)
22.  "Buddy's Show Boat" (Duvall/December 9)
23.  "Sittin' on a Backyard Fence" (Duvall/December 16)

Character Debuts

• Buddy
• Cookie

People

Births

• 5 April - Frank Gorshin
• 17 May - Dale Hale
• 1 August - Dom DeLuise
• 10 December - Mako Iwamatsu

References

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