Happy Harmonies

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Happy Harmonies is a series of animated short films produced by Harman-Ising Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Produced in Technicolor, these cartoons were similar in tone to Walt Disney Productions' Silly Symphonies and Leon Schlesinger Productions' Merrie Melodies musical series, which Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising created. They occasionally featured Bosko, a character who starred in the first Looney Tunes shorts that the duo produced for Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. Pictures. After the first two cartoons, the design of Bosko changed from an "inkblot" to a more realistic African-American boy. The two final titles in the series were originally produced by Harman and Ising as Silly Symphonies cartoons. Disney originally planned to outsource the production of three shorts to Harman-Ising, including a short planned at the studio (Merbabies). Two shorts planned at Harman-Ising, Pipe Dreams and The Little Bantamweight, were rejected due to Roy O. Disney's interference...

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