Sinkin' in the Bathtub

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Sinkin' in the Bathtub is a 1930 American animated comedy short film directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. It is the first theatrical cartoon short to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures as well as the first cartoon of the Looney Tunes series. The short was released on April 19, 1930, at the Warner Bros. Theater in Hollywood. The cartoon features Bosko, and the title is a pun on the 1929 song "Singin' in the Bathtub". The film was erroneously copyrighted under the same title as the 1929 song. It is now in the public domain in the United States as its copyright was not renewed. The name of the Looney Tunes series bears an obvious debt to the Walt Disney Animation Studios' Silly Symphony series, which began in 1929. Steve Schneider writes that this "immediately reveals Harman and Ising's belief that the only way to compete—or even to survive—in the cartoon trade was to cleave to the Disney version." Made in 1930, this short marked the theatrical debut of Bosko the "Talk-Ink Kid" whom...

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