Happy Harmonies
Happy Harmonies is a series of thirty-seven animated cartoons distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising between 1934 and 1938.
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| Color process | Technicolor |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release dates | September 1, 1934 – March 12, 1938 |
Running time | 7–10 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Produced in Technicolor, these cartoons were very similar to Walt Disney's musical series, Silly Symphonies. They would occasionally feature Bosko, a character who starred in the first Looney Tunes shorts that the duo produced for Leon Schlesinger. 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 had Harman and Ising create three shorts for Disney, but when they only kept one of their three shorts (Merbabies), the copyrights to the other two (Pipe Dreams and The Little Bantamweight) were sold to MGM who released them as Happy Harmonies.